Global Chat

[Rhianu]

Why not just make it possible to turn some or all of your linkshells on at once and viewable in a single chat log, maybe just in different colors. Then, people with a lot of shells could have the illusion of global chat and more private people can only turn 1 or 2 on.

If you can 12 LS's then you could respond to them with /1 - /12. This way people could craft their own global chats.

That wouldn't work as well because you can't join a Linkshell unless another player explicitly invites you into it. We need to have a chat channel in which everyone is allowed to communicate freely, without having to be invited by someone else first.

Global chat is a bad idea because it aggravates the entire community, directly and indirectly I think. Optional or not, it's bad imo.

Uh... no, it doesn't aggravate the entire community, and claiming that it does only exemplifies a high degree of bias on your part, because you assume the entire community shares your views (news flash: they don't). Maybe it aggravates YOU, but you are not the entire community.

Basically, global chat channels are only aggravating if you LET them aggravate you. But if you just sit back and relax a bit, you realize that they really aren't spammed with constant bickering anywhere near as much as people here seem to believe they are. Honestly, the types of arguments I've seen on global chat in other games is no worse than the arguments I've seen break out on these very forums. Perhaps we should get rid of these forums, too?