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Gameplay => General Discussion => Topic started by: Killabazilla on January 20, 2004, 11:44:27 pm

Title: chat-system rethought
Post by: Killabazilla on January 20, 2004, 11:44:27 pm

Something that came to my mind just minutes after playing PS:

Wouldn\'t it be better to default chatting to the /say-style? I find it rather annoying to \"hear\" people talking at the other end of town. Even shouting should be limited to a certain range. To contact certain far-away people it\'d be nicer to use the directed-speech options like /tell. It might even make sense to have a seperate chat-interface for non-game-world related chat.

I think that\'d make things more realistic and convenient, don\'t you?

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Post by: Kiern on January 20, 2004, 11:45:48 pm

Yeah, good ideas, but don\'t worry about it...the whole chat system is going to be a lot different (easier/better) in the next release. :)

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Post by: Axsyrus on January 20, 2004, 11:46:10 pm

/say IS the default chatting style... -_-;;

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Post by: Killabazilla on January 20, 2004, 11:54:22 pm

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Originally posted by Axsyrus
/say IS the default chatting style... -_-;;

/me feels kinda dumb
*bump*

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Post by: Axsyrus on January 20, 2004, 11:57:39 pm

anyways, there may be a server with these more realistic options in the future. and i think /shout will already be more restricted to a smaller area in CB, but as the world is so small right now, and only so few people play the game they made it like this.

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Post by: Uyaem on January 21, 2004, 01:10:01 am

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Originally posted by Axsyrus
anyways, there may be a server with these more realistic options in the future. and i think /shout will already be more restricted to a smaller area in CB, but as the world is so small right now, and only so few people play the game they made it like this.

That\'s more realistic, but also kind of sad ..
At least you guys won\'t have to listen to my dumb comments that much any more. *g*

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Post by: Pikace on January 21, 2004, 01:16:21 am

I gotta say that box is a little annoying... maybe chat should be more integrated into the playing zone?

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Post by: Gibrayon on January 21, 2004, 01:35:44 am

Perhaps like the Blizzard games - when you hit \"Enter\" a little cursor comes up and you can type out your message, then press \"Enter\" again to send it.  It\'d be a lot nicer than a huge box.  I don\'t like the chat system either.

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Post by: Killabazilla on January 21, 2004, 01:48:19 am

As this is all going to change in the next release this topic is sort of deprecated already. Let\'\'s just stop this here.

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Post by: acraig on January 21, 2004, 05:25:02 am

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Originally posted by Gibrayon
Perhaps like the Blizzard games - when you hit \"Enter\" a little cursor comes up and you can type out your message, then press \"Enter\" again to send it.  It\'d be a lot nicer than a huge box.  I don\'t like the chat system either.

It works almost like that now in the development version.  Except it just moves focus to the chat box.  So you hit Enter, type your message, hit enter to send.