PM people in dungeon

[Kerwin]

Take a moment to think about how many players from different servers connect to one instance, now think about multiples instances that contain those players from different servers, now think about a front line alliance of 3 alliances connected to one instances and all those instances of frontlines/duty finder going on at the exact same time. Now if everyone was able to send tells back to their home servers. Do the math. That would over stress the instance servers ten fold. Servers would go down

[Niwashi]

Take a moment to think about how many players from different servers connect to one instance, now think about multiples instances that contain those players from different servers, now think about a front line alliance of 3 alliances connected to one instances and all those instances of frontlines/duty finder going on at the exact same time. Now if everyone was able to send tells back to their home servers. Do the math. That would over stress the instance servers ten fold. Servers would go down

I doubt /tells are that much harder on the systems than the FC and linkshell chat that can already go on. I suspect that it's due to a different problem:

/tell "John Doe" Hi
would be confusing if there's both a John Doe there in the dungeon party with you and also a different John Doe back on your home server. No matter which one they implemented, there would be people trying to use it to talk to the other John Doe.

[Souljacker]

I doubt /tells are that much harder on the systems than the FC and linkshell chat that can already go on. I suspect that it's due to a different problem:

/tell "John Doe" Hi
would be confusing if there's both a John Doe there in the dungeon party with you and also a different John Doe back on your home server. No matter which one they implemented, there would be people trying to use it to talk to the other John Doe.

It's wholly unique to SE games then, because other games have managed to figure it out. I cannot think of one other game that blocks you from communications just because you jumped in a dungeon, and two of those I know for certain have had cross-server for years. They invented it.

[rockint]

Take a moment to think about how many players from different servers connect to one instance, now think about multiples instances that contain those players from different servers, now think about a front line alliance of 3 alliances connected to one instances and all those instances of frontlines/duty finder going on at the exact same time. Now if everyone was able to send tells back to their home servers. Do the math. That would over stress the instance servers ten fold. Servers would go down

Yet every other MMORPG that uses cross server instancing can do it with no problem, lag free.

[SMWorks]

Take a moment to think about how many players from different servers connect to one instance, now think about multiples instances that contain those players from different servers, now think about a front line alliance of 3 alliances connected to one instances and all those instances of frontlines/duty finder going on at the exact same time. Now if everyone was able to send tells back to their home servers. Do the math. That would over stress the instance servers ten fold. Servers would go down

Take a moment to look into other similar games that link players from different servers. Tells work. Make it so that you can only use it for FC members and players in your friend list. Problem solved. Nobody will be able to use it to insult people in dungeons.

[Ninix]

Take a moment to think about how many players from different servers connect to one instance, now think about multiples instances that contain those players from different servers, now think about a front line alliance of 3 alliances connected to one instances and all those instances of frontlines/duty finder going on at the exact same time. Now if everyone was able to send tells back to their home servers. Do the math. That would over stress the instance servers ten fold. Servers would go down

It's funny how this a complete non-issue for basically every other MMO with cross-server grouping.

Moreover, you can still chat with your own linkshells and free companies, so you're still connected to a server in charge of handling communication. I don't know if this is the same server responsible for handling chat messages in between players, probably not, but I seriously doubt it's such an insurmountable technical challenge to have these messages be properly passed off to the right server. As I said, basically every other MMO does this without issue.