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While not one of the newest, I am still quite new by the standards of the majority of the players. The greatest appeal of Ryzom is the community structure. Many have stated that other channels are for chat. I will pose reasons that show how those channels can be inadequate, Team chat is nice for private conversations, but if I am in a dig team in Flaming Forest and Goofymonkey is working with a plod team in the Void while Yorran is helping his guild team with fame runs, the only channel we have for community interaction is Uni... we are in separate guilds, separate factions and different regions, This eliminates team, guild, around, region and kara/kami chats. If as a community we want to interact, there needs to be a channel to support that phase of the game. Using Uni as a community chat channel sometimes causes Q&A questions to scroll by too quickly before someone can see and respond, so this can be a hindrance, but I personally enjoy the banter between friends, rivals and factions. It would be nice to have a channel that would not interfere with Q&A in which to promote this community solidarity

Zhola

well said, Zhola.

Sywindt, one person told me she considered herself muzzled by you and left game in part because of that. There were other factors also involved, both related to what's happening with uni and otherwise (mainly outside Ryzom), but your actions played a role in her deciding to cancel her account rather than take a break from playing.

Well, have to agree, very well said Zhola.

Think that the who's and what's and how's and where's of someone leaving the game for whatever reasons for the most part is irrelavant for me in this discussion. Would like to keep it on the topic of the chat channels pretty please! ;-)

Oh crap... did Syw just invade my head...

I can already hear it now...

Goofymonkey says: *cough move it to Uni*
Sywindt says: *hands goofy a lozenge*

I've been here about 15 months, so I'm not a complete new person but I'm far from being one of the older players.

I do see the need for a new social channel as well as the Q&A channel. Personally, I dislike idle Uni chat, I find it boring and stupid. But, I do see it as a valid part of the MMO experience and I do think it should be an option for players to engage in. I try to keep an eye on Uni so I can help people with Q&A but once the conversation gets 'stupid' I switch Uni off and pretend it doesn't exist. I doubt my lack of involvement in the Q&A on Uni really means much to people but this thread as already indicated I'm not the only person that does this.

Having two channels means I can just turn off the Social channel while still being present for Q&A. I believe some newer players see the lack of Uni chat as the lack of players because some sort of constant chat is the standard for MMOs. When they don't see it they wonder whats going on.

Just my 2 Dapper worth.

I have to agree with Kalyndra, there. Newish players that are not used to the "silence" of Uni can see the absence of constant chat as an absence of players, rather than said players being busy elsewhere or simply having nothing to banther about.

Q&A channel is ESSENTIAL, we all agree with that. People need to get their questions answered.

Social Uni chat could and should be an optional tab that people can turn on and off at will. I think faction chat should be the same. Just another tab that one can turn on and off, put on a separate tab, make visible from the main chat, define a custom color for it... I never understood why Faction chat was the only non customizable chat tab and always disliked the fact that I couldn't mute it or shut it down whenever it got too heated up. The only way to get rid of it is to renounce faction allegience...

So, I think it wouldn't be too harmful to have both a social Uni and a QnA channel... and a customizable faction chat. Please ?

Don’t waste dev time on this. Give us actual new content plz.

tbh social uni sounds liek a good idea sence mainly uni is mostly used for social :D

roflmao!