Server-wide /shouts

[Mirage]

You'll love my "channel subscription" idea then.

Maybe the feature could even be given a graphic interface? Sort of like a combination of the "search area" interface and linkshell interface. Browsing areas with a menu similar to the area search, then selecting them and selecting "subscribe" from a sub-menu".

[Glamdring]

channels is workable, if people actually use the right one. We'll have to see. Looks like the devs are serious about doing this, but the only concerns I see on their side is resource load. I want to see the "not having to listen to it" also be in the discussion. The existing filter system is an indication that-at least at 1 time-they were concerned about this, but I want to see that the filters be upgraded too, or the delivery restricted or something.

[Teraniku]

You'll love my "channel subscription" idea then.

Maybe the feature could even be given a graphic interface? Sort of like a combination of the "search area" interface and linkshell interface. Browsing areas with a menu similar to the area search, then selecting them and selecting "subscribe" from a sub-menu".

City of Heroes uses this feature, where a server wide channel is created and people can subscribe to / be invited to the channel. How effective the channels are is dependent upon the players themselves and who the channel mods are. As far as FFXI is concerned, maybe a special Linkshell given to everyone on the server, and then players can Equip it for help, finding Abyssea Parties, Help with missions etc.

[xbobx]

Would be nice if the developers actually responded to important posts not stupid ideas like this.

Last thing I want is server wide shouts, bad enough in port jeuno.

[Mirage]

Except this is a good idea and will help with the congestion issues.

[Doombringer]

"moogle crier" like a town crier, but he's a moogle. (cuz thats how ffxi rolls) put one in every city, maybe even every region/zone.

it'll basically work like a bulletin board. you post up what you're trying to do, who you need, what-have you, and of course it will have your name on your message, so people who are interested can find you.

then, since moogles are magic, the post is available at every other moogle, all players have to do is talk to one, and see what's been posted. if need be, break it down into categories.

then after some pre-determined amount of time, the message expires. you can choose to refresh this timer by talking to the moogle. (as opposed to having to repost it every, what, 15 minutes? 30?)

sure, it's still a bit more rigid than a real server wide shout, but it should be less demanding from a technical POV. (i guess though.. if you can check the moogle crier, you COULD just check for ppl's /seacom. actually.. why not just let us give our /seacoms a title line? so that way we don't have to load up 50 ppls /seacoms that have nothing to do with what we're looking for?)


edit: hell, add this functionality to the moogles in our moghouses to. call it moogle-net or something.

[Shadotter]

Was actually thinking about ways this could be implemented, one way I was thinking of was allowing people to sign up to get special KI linkshells for certain kinds of things, like one for putting up xp parties, one for events, maybe even one for campaign and stuff like that, or maybe just making an official chat channel per server in the forums that people can post stuff on instead, that way you can view it wherever in the game you are.

[Hoshi]

I remember a few years ago when someone was posting city chat to a website (I think it was whitegate chat on Bahamut or something like that). They had a mule who you could get to say things for you in the zone but that part of the feature wouldn't be necessary for this. If SE could make some sort of a shout aggregator that took shouts from all zones and posted them on a website instead of ingame this would allow players to check shouts at times when they were looking for group/quest/drama without sending global shouts to everyone (and that might reduce the server load required to make shouts 'global'?).

[Juilan]

I remember a few years ago when someone was posting city chat to a website (I think it was whitegate chat on Bahamut or something like that). They had a mule who you could get to say things for you in the zone but that part of the feature wouldn't be necessary for this. If SE could make some sort of a shout aggregator that took shouts from all zones and posted them on a website instead of ingame this would allow players to check shouts at times when they were looking for group/quest/drama without sending global shouts to everyone (and that might reduce the server load required to make shouts 'global'?).

No since that'd only work people playing on PC... now just think if we had the ability to sign onto xbox chat on PC... then there would be no reason to play on anything else (and yes you can do xbox party chat on FFXI if MS can do it on games for windows live and xbox live, they can do it for every other game[now if we could petition that])

[Juilan]

Just thinking about this more, and remembering the chat log server in games like FFXIV Aion WoW and a few others that friends have told me about, the chat you see is being sent via a different connection than the actually game where you move... I noticed this in FFXIV when I dc'd and the chat log was going on until the "this server sucks at staying connected" error message comes up. That is why you have multiple linkshells among other things on that game, and I am sure a few others though I have no first hand experience with those... The question is would it be feasible for SE to make a side server that supports multiple servers that acts as a chat server for them, I could see it costing a bit of money and adding about 5s to your log in time since they'd have to have the ID for your character connect to multiple servers. I hope I could be corrected on this if I'm wrong. But that would make all end users happy and lower the congestion in every zone, just have a linkshell defaulted for shouts in the ls window, and oddly you could connect to multiple linkshells ... but I think SE is intimidated by the time it'd take to do that so that'd outweigh the out right demand by the end users to fix the issues that this would.

Also... if they can't do this, DONT SPAGHETTI CODE