Ideas for an ideal CHAT

What would be your ideal chat?
How important do you think Chat will be for the sociability of AoC?
What things should or shouldn't it have?
How important is the chat for you?
The chat should have the option to be editable like CC?

What ideas under your experience in MMOs would make a chat the "ideal chat"?

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MybroViajero

fabula wrote: »

Since AoC will not have an automatic party finder system I assume the chat will be very important in order to gather people for group content. My hope is they take the best things that worked and were useful in other games, try them out and modify/improve as necessary.

Things that are a must have is the ability to add tabs, filter content and change the text color. The ability to create channels and be able to moderate them would be nice ho have if it doesn't undermine another part of the game.

The main thing I want is for the chat to be good enough so that you are not required to have some other program such as discord that functions as the game's defacto chat system.

The importance of a good chat for the sociability of an MMO with very sociable goals.
Yes, it should definitely be that way.

Zahie

I want to be able to customize the chat window with show/hide option, opacity slider, size, adding as many customizable tabs as I want, mute options for /channels, font color, font size and an on/off option if there's gonna be a profanity filter.

I want it clean and organized and tabs that notify when there is unread chats.
I like how Guild Wars 2 did with their chat-tabs.

MybroViajero

wiliestrogue wrote: »

Ideal chat = No censorship

Period.

Although it has its problems too but if Intrepid handles the rules well I think a chat without censorship would be good.

IustinusShiva

Best chat is no chat.
But by the time ashes comes out GPT omni will probably be able to watch chat for me and tell me if anything interesting is happening....

Depraved

IustinusShiva wrote: »

Best chat is no chat.
But by the time ashes comes out GPT omni will probably be able to watch chat for me and tell me if anything interesting is happening....

best chat is chat

wait, r u saying r u gonna bot? T_T

Noaani

Best chat is 2 year old chat.

Laetitian

Welp, since it's already necro'd, maybe someone sees this:

In simple games, I love that the default setting is that when I click into a private chat window with someone, or my clan chat, node chat, or regional chat, I only see messages from those chats, and pressing enter or clicking into my chat window automatically only types into those chat windows (unless I start my message with a / command.)

That's not to say that I'm against customisability. If you want your default chat messages to always go into the same place you've most recently been talking in, regardless of which chat tab you're looking at, and if you want all private messages with individual people to be visible from a single tab, or any other mixed groups, you should be able to do that.

I just don't want that customisation to sacrifice my ability to reply to what I'm looking at without thinking around corners. Let me have automatic new tabs for every new person I talk to, and automatic replies to every distinct chat group I have open in my current chat tab.

It's the simplest, and least error-prone setting; personally I think it should be the default, but if not, then it should at least be easy to set it up. (It should honestly be as easy as a single "Distinct chat tabs for every conversation group" check box that overrides most other chat settings if you enable it.)

Heljy

Personally, the shape of the chat does not matter to me, except that it must be ergonomic and discreet. As said above, the latest iterations of WoW chat is very good in my opinion.

That said, I think the question is on the channel side. Should there be a Global? Regional? Commercial, etc.

Definitely I think that local canals by region and cities are essential. These are the ones you use when looking for help quickly where you are.

However, I am absolutely against the global channel. I find that just like teleportation, it destroys the notion of space and distance in the game. In fact, it is usually used for two things: recruiting (guilds or groups) or trading. As such dedicated systems or channels would seem much more relevant. Besides, why not have a board advertising system for guild recruitment?

As for the vocal of proximity, I wonder about the interest in the open world. Already for the language: if speaking English in writing poses few problems to most players (and still) speaking it orally requires a much better level. Then if in a game like Rust I find the vocal essential to immersion, I find on the contrary that it is harmful in a medieval fantasy setting. Hearing a dwarf speak rough English (or not) and music in the background doesn’t sound very fantasy in my opinion. So why not limit it to PVP events, friction zones (Carfin for example), taverns, etc. ?

Pyrolol

You don’t even need addons for the inbuilt default WoW chat, they made it pretty customisable enough to make it to your style
Class colours, guild chat, trade chat, size and font etc

EDIT: I personally still am using the default one that i started off with back in ‘07

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