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Zone Chat Spam Getting Out Of Control
elitexeno
Member, Neverwinter Beta Users Posts: 32 Arc User
Could you please add a level requirement to use zone chat? Maybe level 10 or something. Could you also please add a timer to chat again in zone after the first. Maybe make us wait 30 seconds before being able to chat in zone again? With the recent influx of gold spammers and just plain annoying trolls...:(
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Simply edit your chat channels and create your own channels, or choose to not view specific channels unless you need to and stop having a cry
This would be fine except a lot of us actually enjoy chatting in the game in the zones where it isn't pure chaos. This is why I like MMORPGs. The sense of community and helping people if they are struggling with something (if it's reasonable and not basic stuff that anyone would know if they just spent 15 seconds looking around their UI).
Of course there will always be trolls, stupid questions, and spammers. But when it's all lumped into one channel, it makes it impossible to sort through.
It's pretty easy to fix.
Trade.
General.
LFG.
...and if you want to get real crazy.
Help.
In my opinion, put a timer. Everyone gets 2 lines, then they have to wait 5 seconds for the next. Unless you're spamming or typing very, very fast, it wouldn't bother normal players. That would only slow them down, but it's a start. Another option: Don't allow copies of the same line until a certain amount of time has passed, like 10 seconds or so. But that can be worked around, as well.
If you want a trade channel that gets used, don't allow players to link items in /zone, only /trade, /guild, /party, and /tell.
You can cut back on the LFG and LFM messages in /zone by improving your Find Party option. Right now it's just not very good. It doesn't tell you what the level range of the party is, the class/type of member(s) they're looking for, what quest/dungeon they're doing, or really anything other than the leader name and the instance they're in. Find Guild has all sorts of nice filters to narrow down what you're looking for, spread that love to Find Party. Find Person could be expanded to include players looking for a party for a particular quest/dungeon, so established parties that are LFM can just filter for the class/level/quest/dungeon they need.
Anyways, just a few suggestions to help untangle that mess you call a chat.
Heck no.
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How many Kleenex were killed to write this post? Isn't crying about crying the same thing, really?
my first day of playing I kept seeing
[ZONE]........
didn't realize right away that it meant the zone I was in, i kept trying to ban this player ZONE as all i saw was him filling up the chat.
then I read a little more, and saw the players name after that. I laughed.
- LFG channel
- Help channel
- General Channel
- Trade Channel
- RP channel
Like any and every other game
Yes, and no. In one game I have played with this exact set up, the only global channel was the LFG channel, which was spammed with general chat, trolls and trades. My solution to these issues in other games was to simply hit guild/legion chat, and to allow party chat into that channel. Presto, no spammers, no trolls, other than the guild/party trolling each other for laughs variety.
depends how active your gms are.
people hate getting squelched
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Sometimes, however, squelching is the best alternative. It's certainly not worth the headaches. I actually kicked a guy out of my guild for spamming a ton of <font color="orange">HAMSTER</font> into the Zone equivalent in one game. I didn't want to be associated with it, and him flying my guild's tag made us all look bad.