Ah, okay. I can understand why a global chat would be frowned upon as I've experienced it myself in other games, but unfortunately I think the absence might have some feeling alienated - myself at least! There's always bad with the good in anything. Haha. I suppose the way to go about it is to search outside of the game on the server specific forums and create a post asking for an invitation to a Link Shell of some sort? That sounds somewhat awkward, but that's the way of things. I reckon I have some contemplating to do. Thank you for your response!