A new chat for chatting...

[Cherie]

I'm kind of interested what FFXIV "barrens" chat would be like... lol

"Where is mankrit's wife?"

[Barboron]

Chat channels exist because you don't want the entire server population all in one channel.

This. Not sure if OP realises why this is a terrible idea. It simply wouldn't work. Apart from the spamming for gil, FC recruitment, PF recruitment etc. If everyone, across every region on the same server could access this chat log, and not all of them would but a lot of them would, do you have any idea how useless it would be? With so many active people, even a small percentage of the servers' population, the chat log would move so rapidly that a conversation couldn't be held. By breaking the chat into several channels, which you can filter into the available tabs, it gives you a steady paced chat log to suit you. We are provided with an FC chatlog and 8 LS chat logs, that's a lot of people. On top of that, LS communities are usually people with more common interests, be it RPing, Odin, Coil specific LSs so you can then filter the type of chat you want based on those LSs into different tabs and not be bombarded with people shouting utter nonsense that I no doubt assume happens in Mor Dhona on every server.

[Titor]

I would love this, even if it were in cities like how WoW does it. The reason that I kept my WoW sub into the last few months of me playing it was in order to just sit around and read trade chat and talk with the other people. It feels so empty here, even though it is not..
Also, do you guys realize that you can customize every aspect of your chat tabs, even renaming them? I would like the option to add other tabs, but for example I have a RP tab that only has say, yell, tell, FC, and my RP LS on it. You can filter however you want they are all just checkboxes.

[WellFooled]

I'm kind of interested what FFXIV "barrens" chat would be like... lol

"Where is mankrit's wife?"

Where can I buy orange juice? :P

[Teppie]

How about alternatively, having the option to join any chat channel. So you can opt in to persistently be in Mor Dhona, or North Shroud, or just everywhere at once.

That would be immensely useful, for finding groups that aren't in PF, and as a crafter it would be really nice to see all melding/crafting requests in every town at once.