Chats dead jim (EU at least)

[ninthfantasy]

All the chit-chat happens in LS/FC now. On my old EU server Shout chat was pretty busy, people shouting for raids, people recruiting for social and raiding FCs/LS... was always busy, especially at peak times.

[Rose_Vilehart]

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i dont know how many posts i have left so im going to use them sparingly.........
im on quite a large amount of time per day, perks of being in college, so peak times dont bother me.

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i know i shouldn't but.....i miss that, it made the game feel alive for all the imperfections that it had shout made the game feel like it had a great community.........now it just feels like everywhere is sectioned off with walls

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um....reasoning?

[Elim]

i dont know how many posts i have left so im going to use them sparingly.........
im on quite a large amount of time per day, perks of being in college, so peak times dont bother me.

I still think you should go Balmung.

[Lunavi]

FC and LS recruitment over PF = NO if you cant put in the time of day to talk to me in person and convince me to join your FC/LS then i doint want to be a part of your FC/LS

Personally I see it like this: If you spam me with /tells about your FC I am not interested, let me look you up and judge for myself if I want to join or not. Different minds maybe, I usually use PF nowadays though as it is less spammy and I understand that people dislike spamming. I mean, do we not BLIST all those gilsellers?

[Rose_Vilehart]

Personally I see it like this: If you spam me with /tells about your FC I am not interested, let me look you up and judge for myself if I want to join or not. Different minds maybe, I usually use PF nowadays though as it is less spammy and I understand that people dislike spamming. I mean, do we not BLIST all those gilsellers?

Eh i still feel that i prefer a flawed sometimes annoying and ocassionally merciless mmo to an empty, almost perfect one (get the reference in this sentence and you get a cookie)

[R1dder]

I think perhaps the biggest issue is that they haven't implemented a "general chat". They have /shout /yell /say, but you don't really wanna use any of those just to have a casual chat. We need some sort of chat that allows us to communicate at a regular basis without having the feeling that we are "bothering" everyone else. Face it, you don't normally use /shout to ask people how their day was or something if it wasn't strictly necessary. I would feel uncomfortable using the /shout chat, simply because it's not suited for that kind of stuff.

Give us a /general or a /all chat which we can have casually, and not to mention allow it to reach across all of the world so that people don't miss the chat soon as they tp from gridania to ul'dah.
- As for now, I'm sticking with the FC chat. At least there i can talk with people about everything.

[Rose_Vilehart]

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This is a very good idea, kind wish SE would take notice of ideas like this......i might create a thread asking for a general chat feature if someone else doesn't do it first

[Nici]

When you made your alt toons on different servers to check out did you just stick to the 3 main cities? cause from what i have seen is that most people use for what passes as general chat at least...is in the Mor Dhona zone...there most of the time is alot of chat activity there, well i guess it depends on the server.

[Kewitt]

Balmung here, I have a simi active FC 1/2 sit in mumble, But I have 2 Very active LS which lots is always happening in.

[searsay]

I'm also from Balmung - I run a very active FC - Laevis Amici - even at off hours (like early AM NA) there are always 3-4 people around. During peak hours we usually have 20+ people on peaking at around 40+ on our busiest raid nights when all 4 current raid groups overlap (Shameless plug - we are looking at possibly starting a 5th group later this month). Now mind you - between FC chat, TS, and/or various Linkshells - everyone is usually talking but not necessarily on the channel/medium your on with them

I've found that when a lot of people are on TS - FC and Linkshell chat has a tendency to get quiet - even though these are active people - and vise-versa when people are not on TS the FC/Linkshell chatter picks up.

Though our FC is progression focused we have a number of people who are really into RP - and have a number of former members who left on good terms (and retain contact with us) to join RP FC's