Freelancer - The Void

I've spoken to Mystic in-game about making the Universal Chat available for all players alike.
I was told that it will be discussed among the staff but i would also like to know what the Community has to say about it

Concept aint new as it being used on a german FL server and seems to bound ppl together - basically it gives you the possibility to write a message which then can be seen by the whole online players (pretty cool in my opinion)

It has many benefits for example let's take a RP situation in which a trader is being taxed by a Pirate
He can use the unichat to ask for Navy assistance
Or when a huge battle is going on people can easily spread the news around
etc etc many benefits as stated
The only abuse i can think of is bad language or the spread of spoilers


It's like being in a group with the whole server! lol

Please post your thoughts about it...

Cheers

Sorry, to me this is a horrible idea. /u chat should only be used by staff members to announce something important to the server/announcment of event/so on. the trader needs help from navy? green them, make friends with navy clans, plot your trade route so you can be close to the navy.

as for huge battles, thats easily indentifiable by the sheer amount of players in one system.

also, giving everyone uni chat would as you said, could spread spoilers and bad language, as well as spam.

I would be interested in seeing more community feedback on this issue. I agreed to pass on the idea, and I will. Please keep in mind that there may be logistical reasons why players using  /u chat is not practical for Void at this time.

My support for this.

Bad language exists without a /u chat anyway.
Spam is spam and it doesn't need a special chat to spread around.

However, i would still favour some restriction on its usage.
Maybe limit it to a few messages per player every hour. If it is possible such a restriction may curtail its misuse.

The idea in itself is good.

-Geromix

I'd say, if give everyone the abillity, also give them the ability to mute it.

I think its good. I mean, if someone uses bad language in universal, or spams, entire void will see it. Sure theres lots of people to report him as well

I think there is enough staff on server to ask them "please announce" "something important will happening at some place" or something like that

You can ask ADMINs VOIDs FAQs to say in uni-chat whatever You want to say, but it's important to let them decide they will fulfill Your request or not.

Hmmm It is an interesting idea. Ability to communicate with the everyone atm online. The only drawback in my opinion can be the mess: you have certain communication in system A,B,C,etc... about different things. When separated and kept in system chat it is not so messy but imagine A,B,C,etc.. put together. It will be a bit chaotic i think.

Right,


I say, make it for RP purposes only. Or events. No random talking in /u chats. Give people the abillity to mute it as well.

I really love the idea though. Just imagine.

Your a trader, a pirate is taxing you. You can do an emergency call on /u chat. Or imagine a clan attacking a system. claiming it. And tell everyone in U chat.


I really love it. I hope it gets implemented.

I think that Universe chat was made for admins only and should be used by admins only. But if it does get implemented for players, there must be a mute command for it aswell. I don't want to read all that people have to say over the universe channel all the time (HC expirience ).

If there were ranked pvp tournaments, I'd favor giving universal chat rights to the top 3 players for a month.

Giving it to everyone? Sorry, but no thanks: we'd most probably have people spamming it from time to time, and then there'd be a need for muting it. That might make people miss some admin announcements, however, which I don't think is a good idea. So no, I'm against this.

Promote admin universal chat so that if theres an important announcement that it ignores the mutes.

another thing that should be said is that if anybody is given uni chat, they are automaticly put above the privileges of FLAC. this will allow them to harm eachother in safe zones like new york or dock on ports with a starflier, as well as making the admins to kill/beam/kick/ban you (not sure about kick and ban). Probably that can be fixed with some FLAC work (you must remember that /u chat is purley FLAC) but I dont think it would be worth it.

Me personally this is a terrible idea giving everyone universal chat. The abuse it would get would be unreal you would never be able to see a planet in front of you never mind trying to pvp for the constant spam. I mean just take a look at the forum with all the "you did this to me and you did that to me posts" imagine that splashed all over the Galaxy In capital letters.

Well on HHC surprisingly there isn't a lot of spam. People mostly say hi to the whole server when they logon or ask questions about freelancer. Still I think its useless to give uni chat to players.