Feedback:User/Valkar/chat system
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I'd like to see on Guild Wars 2, a proper Chat System, wich include chat-tabs of: 'all' 'group' 'combat' 'IMS'.
The 'All' would be as it sounds, would show all the incoming/outgoing messages (except the combat-damage type, but would include the 'killed X' 'player A died', but not the debuffs/etc)
The 'Group' would be, show only messages related to the group/raid you part of
The 'combat' would be the traditional one, wich we click to see the heal/damage/buff/debuff done to/from us
The 'IMS' would be the in-game message tab, wich allow us to chat toward another player directly, but this same tab could have some sort of vertical split showing the names, of the players who we speaking with (take a look at Lord of the Rings Online, it has the best IMS system I saw til today, you can have an 'idea' of what I mean, and you may agree with me on this :) ) so we can quickly see/reply to the specific player who we having a discussion, since it include the historic of that convo (until you close that player chat specific tab, wich then 'resets' case he/you discuss again)
Now the most important of all, create a 'official' Global Trade (only messages starting with WTS, WTB, WTT, will be linked on it if we use it) and a 'official' Global Looking For Group (only messages started as LFG / LFP will be linked on it if we use it)
And allow people to 'join' chat channels (if you want, limit it to 4-5 or wich amount you think would be better), so groups of people could form their groups (communities using a simple command like for exemple /joinchannel valkargroup and anyone who would do /joinchannel valkargroup would be able to see/post on this channel by typing /X (x been the user chat channel number on the player) and /leavechannel valkargroup (to leave it)
The userchannels you can see them in action on Rift and on Lord of the Rings Online (aswell) but it works better on the second case
And allow people to custumize wich chat 'channels' (say, emote, trade, global LFF, global trade, combat, etc) on each of the chat tabs, for personals custumization (some people would maybe 'disable' some specific channels on their tabs) and alow custumize each chat channel color as we please
Keep in mind, I played Guild Wars for over 3 years then moved to lotro/wow then rift, and now im out of MMMORPG until GW2, and the Chat System realy makes a big impact on the game community, i raided a lot (i leaded 3-4 raids a week to all the high-end content) so im not just a 'casual' player doing a chat suggestion, even myself a raider, feel that a chat system improved the games communities a lot, since it allow people to form their own sub-communities on game, incentive people to send IMS to each others instead just spam a public channel since they able to keep track on who/what they speaking with in easy access
thats why i mentioned the Lotro exemple, on that aspect they made a very good system (wich im pretty sure you can do even better, for sure)
keep the good work guys (and girls :P), i like the way you heading with the out-of the-box ideas, cant wait :)
