Suggestion: Server-Wide Chat Channel

[Gwynplaine]

How about this:
3 different settings in chat filters as well as text commands.
Filter Off - The server chat filter is set to off and you will see all chat in any zone.
Contextual Filter - This setting automatically turns the filter off when entering towns and automatically turns it on outside towns.
Permanent On Filter - Server chat is filtered out completely until you turn it off again.

Type commands could be something like:
/servchat off
/servchat on
/servchat town

And it goes without saying that a minimum wait time between messages and standard things like the same limits that apply to shouts and tells now should be used.

[GlobalVariable]

To the folks saying a wait between shouts: it doesn't even need to be 3 min to be effective. That seems pretty short till your in game where waiting the few seconds for that galka at the boat dock to MOVE seems like an eternity! A one minute wait would be plenty for non RMT bots who would just use multiple trial accounts to bypass it anyway.

How about this:
3 different settings in chat filters as well as text commands.
Filter Off - The server chat filter is set to off and you will see all chat in any zone.
Contextual Filter - This setting automatically turns the filter off when entering towns and automatically turns it on outside towns.
Permanent On Filter - Server chat is filtered out completely until you turn it off again.

Type commands could be something like:
/servchat off
/servchat on
/servchat town

And it goes without saying that a minimum wait time between messages and standard things like the same limits that apply to shouts and tells now should be used.

If they can program it that way, works for me. They also need to be on top of their spam filter code though so RMT don't rotate trials in and result in more posts demanding nooblets not be able to talk. That we get many nooblets these days @.@;