Server-wide /shouts

[Mirage]

well it is different in that a linkshell message only needs to be sent to the few dozen (at most) players in the linkshell, while the entire jeuno region sometimes has nearly 1000 players in there, who would all receive every region-shout made in there.

But it would lower port jeuno congestion. Even if people still put their homepoints in jeuno, it doesn't have to be right in Port Jeuno. All Jeuno zones would have a shared chat channel, so everyone interested in shouts could now be spread over 4 areas instead of 1. I know I would idle in Upper Jeuno waiting for shouts if I could, instead of in port.

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Oh hey I know. What if we got a system where we could "subscribe" to a specific area's shout channel? Like when I logged on, I would type for example "/channel add portjeuno", and then I would get shouts from Port Jeuno in my chat log no matter where in the game I was. If I wanted to change that to a different channel later, I could do that with "/channel add someotherzone" whenever I felt like it. Or turn it off with "/channel remove zonename".

To save server resources, it could be made so that if you didn't actually perform any actions (run around, chat, sort inventory, whatever) on your character for like an hour, the subscription would be dropped. Whenever you got back from your AFKing, you could just re-subscribe I guess.