True, but you can't exactly see what you're typing. Or messages from other people. You can't even tell if the message you entered was even sent or not. Thank you for bringing up this issue though. If the devs could look into this, the communication among players would resolve a lot of the things we've talked about. Instead of waiting around, they could spend the time discussing the level with the loading players.

Something just occurred to me now though, which effectively steam-rolls every idea we've discussed so far. There would be no need to painstakingly make all those changes if this single, simple addition can be made instead. The players who loads up earlier has to wait on loading players on the party circle, right? What if, loading players can be treated like dead players? We'd never have to see another start up drama again, making a lot of players happy players. With this the players with faster connections can simply proceed ahead and the still loading players can join them later, starting from the party circle.

Not too long ago there was a petition for adding another Asian server. Wouldn't simply addressing the issues faced by slower loading players be a better solution?