Idea 1: The ability to turn on a world channel for another world (e.g. /w4) for those occasions when you have to jump worlds to find an appropriate level group but want to stay in on the conversations.

or...

Idea 2: A universal channel (e.g. /u) allowing the entire DR universe to converse together. (I'm especially not sold on this one -- I fear the /u channel could be usurped by the "ur [censored]"/"am not" w1 tweenie-boppers.)

Get ready to abuse the ideas... ssssset... aaaaannnnnnd abuse.

I thought about both those idea for quite some time

The Universal channel would have to be pretty strict. I really hope that they come out with player officers who can mute/kick/ban players for spamming, not following rules and what not.

Without some kind of enforcement, the universal channel would just fail.

The "/w2" idea is good, but the only way I could see that working is if when someone spoke from another world, that it would be completely obvious that they were on said world, otherwise it would be a little confusing, trying to find groups, only to find out that they're in another server.

Good ideas however. The Universal channel would be great for setting up events and getting players together.

/agree (pending logistics)

Hehehe, no way.

Player mods? Not allowed because of some random Privacy Policy..
NCSoft mods? Myes.. but too expensive.
Universal chat? Nah.. you see.. next to the W1 terrible.. language usage and alike, issues can easily be raised and seriously.. you dont want universal chat when such an issue has 2 parties, across all worlds, thats just one big flaming and spamming party.

About the different world chats.. its basically universal chat but its a bit mroe safe. Altho Im not sure if it'll go well. I mean.. once again, some W1's come on your peaceful W7 chat, and its ruined.

Sorry to not support the ideas, but those are my opinions, and I think they come close to reality if its implanted.

Universal chat? You know how much that could possibly slow down the game? And the chat box will get flooded very fast.

Nah, just let people pay 500k or a million per message.

Right now, I think world/market/noob chat is as big as we want a single chat channel to get. Of course Posses will get their own chat channels (one for everyone, one for high-ranking officers) that will be cross-server.

The big problem with cross-server channels is how big they can get; restricting them to the size of the world is an artificial limit but it's about the right size. Posses impose a more organic limitation based on your comfort level and the willingness of others to participate.

I definetly cannot wait for the posse system to take off. Yeah the Universal Channel might not work, but the posse channels will be across all worlds, so that'll be good.

The word Posse feels weird though, but like someone said before, "guilds" just feels too typical/old

Maybe Alliance, Clique, Crew, League, coalition or company might sound nicer, but that's just my opinion.

Edited by CapDown (07/23/08 04:59 PM)

We're pretty happy with posses.