A toggle to display /shout messages cross-city.

[Altena]

If I remember correctly, we're going to have chat channels which is basically what you're asking for.

If this is true then my thread is mute point. I have no idea how "chat channels" work as my MMO experience is limited to a very small handful of games. Someone mind explaining the basics to the daft?

You have the ability to toggle shouts on/off with the in game configuration menu in 1.0; so it already exist.

jc

You don't understand my point.

Assume I want to go kill Garuda but there are no shouts.
I want to hang around the guilds in Gridania, or go hit trees with my axe, yet suddenly there is a PUG forming in Ul'dah for Garuda.
In order for me to see this I would have to be in Ul'dah, so I miss the opportunity to do Garuda because I chose to hit logs while I waited.
This happens to a lot of us, very often. You often have to decide whether to leave town and do solo content during a quiet time on the server or stand around in town waiting/forming a shout.
So what do you do? Miss out on a PUG and farm, or stand around and scratch your butt in a central hub.

[Wolfie]

If this is true then my thread is mute point. I have no idea how "chat channels" work as my MMO experience is limited to a very small handful of games. Someone mind explaining the basics to the daft?

Depends on the type of channel. "Standard" chat channels are either local (reaches everyone in the entire zone) or global (anyone logged in). Trade, Looking for Group, and channels like that are global. Players are free to enter or leave the channels at any time via a /join [channel name] or /leave [channel name]. Some channels are automatically activated when entering a city (i.e. trade) or putting up your LFG flag (LFG channel), but can still be left manually with a /leave command.

Basically, imagine public linkshells.

[Altena]

Depends on the type of channel. "Standard" chat channels are either local (reaches everyone in the entire zone) or global (anyone logged in). Trade, Looking for Group, and channels like that are global. Players are free to enter or leave the channels at any time via a /join [channel name] or /leave [channel name]. Some channels are automatically activated when entering a city (i.e. trade) or putting up your LFG flag (LFG channel), but can still be left manually with a /leave command.

Basically, imagine public linkshells.

Ah right, well that would solve this issue very nicely. I hope that is the case..

Any rep mind confirming this? I did find it difficult being an EN player in a difficult time zone to find PUGs for content when my main LS members were on.

[AttacKat]

You don't understand my point.

What you are asking, is what the "search" feature in 1.0 suppose to help you with, but never worked. I believe they are rewriting that portion of the code as well, so we will see how things may change once we get our hands on beta in couple of weeks.

jc

[Klefth]

What you are asking, is what the "search" feature in 1.0 suppose to help you with, but never worked. I believe they are rewriting that portion of the code as well, so we will see how things may change once we get our hands on beta in couple of weeks.

jc

It did work perfectly fine. It's just that most people but the JP simply chose not to use it apparently.