Chat (Clickable names? Color?)

[Aldora]

All I want is to have a chat lock when changing chat.

Example: you are in /say chat, when your party member say something to you. you type /p [insert text], and then its locked into Party until you change it again with /fc or any other ones available.

That way, if you typed something that wasn't meant for anyone else than the person you want to send it to, the embarrassment if ever, that comes from making a mt, won't exist.

Like shouting and then you want to answer to an FC mate, to see it went to Shout >.<

Thank you.

Did you know that if you just use the chat channel command (like /say, /p, /l, /l2, /fc, etc) that the default channel will change to that specific channel? So, if you for instance type /p followed by Enter/Confirm, the chatbar will turn blue with the “Party”-caption in front of it and the text you type after that will defaultly be sent to the party chat.

You can also click on the “Say” to change it to another default channel.

Edit: After reading your post again, I think you did know about that, but you're asking them to change the default chat channel after sending a message to that particular channel?

[HEC-]

All I want is to have a chat lock when changing chat.

Example: you are in /say chat, when your party member say something to you. you type /p [insert text], and then its locked into Party until you change it again with /fc or any other ones available.

This is working correctly as intended. If you want to change (permanently) to another chat channel like Party just type "/p [ENTER]" and it will stay in that channel untill next change. However if you want to send (one idividual) message to another channel - let's being in FC one and posting to Party you'll use "/p text" to not change the channel - that's on purpose. If it would be changed as you suggest it will be not possible to send "one off" messages to another channels without constant permanent switching between them.

[Lithera]

This is working correctly as intended. If you want to change (permanently) to another chat channel like Party just type "/p [ENTER]" and it will stay in that channel untill next change. However if you want to send (one idividual) message to another channel - let's being in FC one and posting to Party you'll use "/p text" to not change the channel - that's on purpose. If it would be changed as you suggest it will be not possible to send "one off" messages to another channels without constant permanent switching between them.

Yah it could actually make the chance of an MT worse...

[Rydia13]

I was wondering if it's possibly to add an extra tab that shows everything. It'd be nice to see my damage dealt while chatting with friends and not having to switch tabs.

[Wildsprite]

I was wondering if it's possibly to add an extra tab that shows everything. It'd be nice to see my damage dealt while chatting with friends and not having to switch tabs.

you can have up to 4 chat tabs, and you can show or not show whatever you want in them.
to add more tabs you hit the + symbol
to edit the settings for the tabs either click the gear symbol on the chat section or go to Character Settings>Chat(this is the last thing on the windows version)
there will be a button for each chat in those settings that will bring up a window to who what it will and won't display
I'm not sure if this is the same on the PS3 version but fairly sure it is the same on the PS4 version

[Danbo05]

Greetings,

The ability to change chat colors is actually a bug that is planned to be addressed. We've been seeing players asking if it's okay to use these different colors, or if it's against the rules. As such, Hiroshi Minagawa, Lead UI artist, has posted a response about this that we’d like to share with you.

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[HReincarnate]

All I want is to have a chat lock when changing chat.

Example: you are in /say chat, when your party member say something to you. you type /p [insert text], and then its locked into Party until you change it again with /fc or any other ones available.

That way, if you typed something that wasn't meant for anyone else than the person you want to send it to, the embarrassment if ever, that comes from making a mt, won't exist.

Like shouting and then you want to answer to an FC mate, to see it went to Shout >.<

Thank you.

You can change your Keybind settings so that using alt+p or alt+f or whatever for switching chats, locks the chat into that chatroom.

[Burrmanchu]

Similarly, the bug that allowed you to use code to make special characters will also no longer be possible.

All special chars? I hope not... I always thought some of the special chars people use to make little images added a fun dimension to an otherwise boring chatlog...

I agree that some of the ones in ST (etc) can be annoying, but I've seen some really creative and cool ones as well.

The colors I understand, since color can determine who's speaking from what channel based on your settings, and people could probably abuse that if really wanted to... Why the chars tho?

[Danbo05]

I vote compromise. No colors but characters stay. <3

[AlexionSkylark]

I don't mean to object to this in any way. I'm am simply curious as to how color modding words in the chat log could be used to disturb players. I wish to gain perspective. Can you give an example?

I can give an example: RMT SPAM