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    I'd rather bring up a more pressing concern... Can we get the ability to chat in any ls we have equipped? I'd really like /l1 and /l2 because swapping shells constantly to talk to 2 different groups is irritating, and sometimes the time it takes to make the change can cause your comment to lose relevance in a conversation.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Lusavari View Post
    I'd rather bring up a more pressing concern... Can we get the ability to chat in any ls we have equipped? I'd really like /l1 and /l2 because swapping shells constantly to talk to 2 different groups is irritating, and sometimes the time it takes to make the change can cause your comment to lose relevance in a conversation.
    Agreed! or some other means of switching shells more fluently.
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    Also against global chat. To those saying it adds to the sense of community, FFXI's community was great and didn't have or need global chat. I just see a whole bunch of nonsense being spammed in it, hardly the side of the community I would like to see on a daily basis.

    And no, toggle option doesn't help either. Let's say I have it toggled off and someone is shouting for something I need or am trying to sell in global chat, I would never see it.

    FFXI's chat worked perfectly fine, there was still spam but not an entire server worth of it. Please do not add this. There's FAR more important issues.
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    Quote Originally Posted by MeowyWowie View Post
    Also against global chat. To those saying it adds to the sense of community, FFXI's community was great and didn't have or need global chat.
    That is why in XI I could stand with LFP flag open for several hours before I got a party...

    Such a sense of community.

    Also to those who want multiple linkshell chats. It is a nice feature, but then everyone would just end up being in every linkshell. Defeats any purpose really. When or if future content comes it would also blur the line of who gets to participate and who doesn't. I don't see it being effective, but its not something I'd write off as useless either.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Tibian View Post
    That is why in XI I could stand with LFP flag open for several hours before I got a party...

    Such a sense of community.
    What does that have to do with sense of community? And how would global chat help you in that position?

    All global chat would do would add more "DD looking for party" spam, while there's still no one looking for whatever job you were. No one said the party recruitment system was perfect, and that's hardly what's being discussed here.
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    Quote Originally Posted by MeowyWowie View Post
    FFXI's chat worked perfectly fine, there was still spam but not an entire server worth of it. Please do not add this. There's FAR more important issues.
    FFXI's chat system was acceptable but could have been a lot better.

    And I don't think anyone is saying that there aren't more important issues. But the thing is, changes don't come quickly or easily. If they see this as something that people are interested in, they can start planning it out, fit it into the queue and maybe have something ready later on.
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    Last edited by normalforce; 06-11-2011 at 09:25 AM.

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    Quote Originally Posted by normalforce View Post
    FFXI's chat system was acceptable but could have been a lot better.

    And I don't think anyone is saying that there aren't more important issues. But the thing is, changes doesn't come quickly or easily. If they see this as something that people are interested in, they can start planning it out, fit it into the queue and maybe have something ready later on.
    While I agree there was room for improvement, zone wide shouts for instance, I would much rather the dev team spend their time make our LS's more manageable with things like /lsmes, letting us kick inactive players, switching LSs via text command, etc, etc. Those are things that everyone wants, and ASAP.

    I'm pretty sure it would probably be the same team working on these types of things, and within that small category, Global chat would be at the bottom of the list in my book.
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    Quote Originally Posted by MeowyWowie View Post
    While I agree there was room for improvement, zone wide shouts for instance, I would much rather the dev team spend their time make our LS's more manageable with things like /lsmes, letting us kick inactive players, switching LSs via text command, etc, etc. Those are things that everyone wants, and ASAP.

    I'm pretty sure it would probably be the same team working on these types of things, and within that small category, Global chat would be at the bottom of the list in my book.
    Yup, I agree with that. Linkshells need a lot of TLC. /ls is the original, albeit limited, global chat mechanism. The team that works on one could conceivable work on the other. Hopefully they can fit in some of these updates sooner rather than later.
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    Last edited by normalforce; 06-11-2011 at 09:09 AM.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Lusavari View Post
    I'd rather bring up a more pressing concern... Can we get the ability to chat in any ls we have equipped? I'd really like /l1 and /l2 because swapping shells constantly to talk to 2 different groups is irritating, and sometimes the time it takes to make the change can cause your comment to lose relevance in a conversation.
    Yes, yes, a million times yes. +1 to this. Talking in all of your linkshells should be as simple as this. Even /switch 2 would be preferable to what we currently have to do to talk in another linkshell.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Lusavari View Post
    I'd rather bring up a more pressing concern... Can we get the ability to chat in any ls we have equipped? I'd really like /l1 and /l2 because swapping shells constantly to talk to 2 different groups is irritating, and sometimes the time it takes to make the change can cause your comment to lose relevance in a conversation.
    Now thats an idea i like, and was going to post about thumbs up to you good sir!!!!!