This is a super old issue, but can we please get linkshell and party chat while zoning? Sure, we all just say we're zoning now, but it's an annoyance to everyone involved.
I know something weird is going on behind the scenes with chat and zoning, because when you attempt to send a tell to someone that is currently zoning, the message errors out. Is the data grab during zone changes that bad that it congests up the incoming chat data?
Devs: What actually causes incoming chat messages to not be intercepted by the client? Is it due to the weird way the game handles moving from one server to another when moving between regions? Or is there another reason?