Chatting "in character"

[Hadfael]

Maybe is the title a bit confusing or at list showing a confusion about the "In Character" IC acronym.

/tell is used to talk between characters. IC is something else. It is about talking in the role of your character instead of chatting like ta player (this being OOC=Out Of Character)

In fact, it is often considered that the /tell communications are most of the time OOC. Because there is no explanation for your character to this possibility to talk and hear people talking to him from any great distance and even from the death realm.
Are characters capable of magic or telepathic communications? This is not specified in the settings.

Now, about private conversations (IC or OOC) in /tell, tuning the options can make it very easy.
Personaly I use [Tab] key to auto-reply tells, and [enter] to exit the chatbox.
[tab] is also very useful when typing the firstname of your correspondent when already in the chatbox. Just type the first letters and [tab] will try to auto-complete it. It will look for firstnames in your buddylist and the ones you heard talking in any chanel.

[Idoru]

[tab] is also very useful when typing the firstname of your correspondent when already in the chatbox. Just type the first letters and [tab] will try to auto-complete it. It will look for firstnames in your buddylist and the ones you heard talking in any chanel.

Really?? ?? well, ive learned something new aswell, that sounds really quite cool and im suprised ive never heard it mentioned. thank you

[zanzibar]

Hello,

I have been playing this game for a little less than a week now and am really having fun with it.  I wish I hadn't started with the character that I have but I am not going to spend another week building up a new character.  I am Vorombe if anyone has seen me out there.  This is all so new to me. 

Anyhow, I find it very cumbersome chatting with other characters using the /tell command.  I have to type /tell (the character's name) and then the message.  All this for maybe a two word response to a question and then I have to do it all again for another response.  I am sure I am missing something in the whole chat thing, can someone help? 

Matt

I try to avoid talking to people using /tells because it's out of character.  I try to resist that temptation and instead I wait to talk to someone when I run into them.  It isn't easy, but it's a much more immersive experience and I think it makes it more enjoyable for others to interact with your character.

Edit:  Edited to make sense.

[Idoru]

I, personally, would talk to any one in /tell, mainly beacause I want people to feel like they are being helped, rather than talking to someone who is just feeling like im being pretentious. I dont mean this as any form of insult to anyone who has posted

[zanzibar]

I, personally, would talk to any one in /tell, mainly beacause I want people to feel like they are being helped, rather than talking to someone who is just feeling like im being pretentious. I dont mean this as any form of insult to anyone who has posted

I'll talk to someone using /tell if the discussion is OOC.

[Idoru]

Let me do a little clarification, after re-reading my last post I dont think it explains what I was trying to convey at all.

If someone ran up to me in the plaza and said in /say 'Excuse me, could you direct me to the gold mine?' I would of course tell them in open chat and IC. If someone has decided to ask me something in /tell, even if it was the same question, I would respond in /tell. I wouldnt ask them to come and meet me so that I could do it IC. I would never use /tell IC because Kran are not telepathic.