Developers: Regarding the upcoming "Yell" Chat Command

[Habiki]

This update will be a nothing really, it won't be a global chat channel it is just going to be all 4 jeuno zones. If you don't care to hear it filter it or go somewhere else, the only reason to be in any jeuno zone at all is for the shouts, home nations give AH and Aby NPCs.

Agreed, but remember their just gonna start with implemanting it in jueno, and depending how it gos, they have plans to make it work in home nations as well. Shouldn't really make a differance though if they added that now or later people are still gonna stay in jueno for shouts + convience of travel and it won't serve much purpose anywhere else. I don't see people leaving jueno unless the magian moogles are added to the home nations as well.

[Zoner]

Agreed, but remember their just gonna start with implemanting it in jueno, and depending how it gos, they have plans to make it work in home nations as well. Shouldn't really make a differance though if they added that now or later people are still gonna stay in jueno for shouts + convience of travel and it won't serve much purpose anywhere else. I don't see people leaving jueno unless the magian moogles are added to the home nations as well.

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I'm not against a "Yell" chat command and i don't want to have to filter it, however some ppl already abuse the shout command spamming every 5 secs looking for a tele, looking for a party, wanting to buy something, etc

A delay on the time between each "yell" from a single person might help keep it from being a flying spam fest onscreen.

Don't want to wait between each time you can use "yell", then use shout.

[RabidSquirrel]

I'm not against a "Yell" chat command and i don't want to have to filter it, however some ppl already abuse the shout command spamming every 5 secs looking for a tele, looking for a party, wanting to buy something, etc

A delay on the time between each "yell" from a single person might help keep it from being a flying spam fest onscreen.

Don't want to wait between each time you can use "yell", then use shout.

Delay timers on chat never work. Do you know what happens when you do that? People will message every chance they get which will result in a lot of text at once, making it nearly impossible to find what you're looking for without fullscreening the chat box.

[JackDaniels]

This update will be a nothing really, it won't be a global chat channel it is just going to be all 4 jeuno zones. If you don't care to hear it filter it or go somewhere else, the only reason to be in any jeuno zone at all is for the shouts, home nations give AH and Aby NPCs.

Um no, I just came back to FFXI and rerolled, I could barely function in Port Jeuno when I was doing some nation mission or job quests, i forget which. I shouted "why does the entire server have to AFK in port jueuno" and right away I got replies in shout saying 'go fk yourself', 'get lost, youre an idiot', 'you are not worthy of this game just logout and kill yourself' lol.

[katz]

Personally Im finding I dont visit Jeuno as much as I visit my home nation now. The introduction of the AH and maw teleporters to the home nation and the ability to use the op warps means its much easier to stay at home than go to Jeuno. Only when Im bored to I go check out the bazaars and listen to the shouts in Jeuno which isnt very often. Even my mule went back home. Much rather use the shops in the home nation too.

[Runespider]

they have plans to make it work in home nations as well.

This is Square, you really think they meant it's going to be shared yell?

It will be 4 seperate yell channels for the 3 nations and jeuno, shouting in jeuno won't be heard anywhere but there.

[Airget]

This is Square, you really think they meant it's going to be shared yell?

It will be 4 seperate yell channels for the 3 nations and jeuno, shouting in jeuno won't be heard anywhere but there.

With enough persuasion they probably will make yell a sort of global chat. The reason why people want to remain in jeuno is so they can hear the shout, which will kinda be fixed when they add yell to that region. Depending on how things go I see two things happening.
-They'll make unique yells for each town area
-They'll make "yell" universal working in the areas that have the abyssea npcs.

Since the general hub for people to hang out are normally where the abyssea NPCs lie I feel that they may consider changing it from a yell that works through the whole town zone and focus more on having it work in the areas that have abyssea NPCs. Though I do see the problem with that people may be reluctant to leave those areas thinking they may miss out on something where a universal yell would be nice.

Only other thing I can imagine, depending on how much stress it actually puts in the system is this
Port Jeuno Yell=All Jeuno zones, Port Bastok, Windy water, Port sandy and Whitegate.
Port Bastok= All bastok areas
Windy Waters= All windy areas
Port Sandy=All sandy areas
Whitegate=Al zhabi and port jeuno

Basically WG and port jeuno would be able to yell at one another, Port jeuno could be a central hub where leaders go to gather members, then upon gaining interest from people in other towns they could have someone there yell to gain interest to anyone who may be in those towns.

At least I think this would be the least stressful way on the server. it would kind of limit the amount of information being sent.
Port Jeuno would span across 8 zones
Bastok=4 zones
Windy=4 zones
Sandy=4 zones
Whitegate=3 zones

If it was expanded to more such as Selbina/Rabao/mhaura/Norg/Safehold I think that would be to much. Overall those zones don't see much activity to warrant yelling for any help.The above however does have a decent amount of occupancy as well as guilds where people may be working on skilling up when they hear of a yell that they may be interested in.

It'll be interesting to see how the first yell setup works out and how much stress it puts on the server. Hopefully it doesn't cause to many issue and they can actually integrate it in a way that'll make getting things done in game a lot smoother.

[katz]

If you dont ask you wont get, if you ask and dont get you are no worst off.

[Alhanelem]

you do not need to call out the developers for your post to get read. In fact, it makes your post less likely to be read.

and yell doesn't need a cooldown. Just filter it, or blacklist the people abusing it if you don't want to see it.

[Runespider]

you do not need to call out the developers for your post to get read. In fact, it makes your post less likely to be read.

Putting dev in the post won't disuade paid staff from reading them.

They don't reply to the vast majority of posts no matter what you put in the title, simply because they have to get confirmation for everything they reply to that isn't simple stuff.