As you may know we have currently "RedAlert" and "Red Alert" channels for reporting where RA (Red Alerts - active Borg event) are taking place. Unfortunately those channels are spammed as hell.. and it's hard to get hold of useful info. Partially because anyone can join w/o accepting or reading the channel policy first.
Well myself being EVE player and experiencing "defense channels" I know that it is possible to have proper information channel.
I have created a private channel:
privRA
Chanel is intended only to share informations about current Borg events. End the only way to get access to it is via invitation.
Anyone who is willing to follow policy is welcome.
Channel policy:
- Please report only when you actually see Red Alert in sector space. Provide sector name and instance number.
- No chatting is allowed.
- Spam won't be tolerated.
- If you continue to break rules after warning you will be removed from channel.
Channel just started and I realize those info channels are only as good, as how many willing members they have. But I am certain in a few days it will be better than the current ones. And most important it will be noise free.
If you like the idea, want to be a part of it please post here or PM me, and I will invite you.
Please also inform your friends and fleet mates about it.
Channel is moderated by 12th Fleet members.
If you are a fleet leader/diplomat and want to have operator rights on that channel please send PM to
@Xelosu.
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Long story short, there are already more than two channels for this. In fact, there are several (at least five that I know of). All of them want to be 'the' channel but I really don't see the need to make more than what already exists as it dilutes the stream of information for everyone.
I don't know what times you play but I've just never had trouble finding locations and I often play in the dead of night and morning when the least amount of players are usually on.
Good luck with your channel though.
Same reason many people I know have global and zone chat turned off permanently.
For those people I have created my channel.
In both RA channels often happens that msg are incoming with the frequency of 1 every 5 seconds. And sadly most of them is pure spam.
Like this:
[17:20] [Red Alert] Bogle@cel*****: Only 2 of us in Pi Canus.. not enough ships to win this
[17:20] [Red Alert] Kysea@Pho*****: no no that's not...
[17:20] [Red Alert] Duncan Mit@Jet****: tactival retreat
[17:21] [Red Alert] Kysea@Ph*****: Alpha Centauri still clear
[17:23] [Red Alert] Bogle@cel*****: No Tac cubes.. but nearest target after that
[17:25] [Red Alert] Bogle@cel*****: NOO.. dont go to the tac---
[17:25] [Red Alert] Zan@Na*****: lol to late
[17:25] [Red Alert] Bogle@cel*****: .. oh well.. the long hard way..
[17:25] [Red Alert] Maudee Ganx@P-A-T-********: Anyone else fly an Excel, go into a borg encounter and then have their transwarp drive go off and put them who knows where?
[17:26] [Red Alert] Bogle@cel*******: fiure at it from above or below.. not along the sheild bars... you get hit wih null sensors
Sorry but I don't find any of this information useful, interesting or whatever.
I know some people have no fleet and or simply like to chat, I am not saying thats bad.
But there are also people that want to get information w/o having to read all that spam.
I have no intention of making this "THE CHANNEL".
It's just an alternative..
But, hope that works out for you either way.
Stop arguing with him, he made a thread to invite people to his PRIVATE channel, if you don't want to join it move on. He didnt ask you to debate whether or not his PRIVATE channel was needed.
To him it might be, thats why he is creating his own personal private channel for JUST announcing RAs only, get it?
No we lost no we need more help no when is the next RA . Just RA Pi Can or RA Si and thats it.
I dont see an issue with this, heck sign me up @brakner. Now maybe I can put the new RA channel in the same tab as my team/zone chat and not have it spam by so fast that it kills all other chats.
Pretty much. Considering theres only 5 people per instance, and if you are already inside an instance, you have no idea if the Red Alert is even up/allowing people to join from sector space anymore. Or if your instance is already full because there's a cloaked klink or two leaching/afk.
No one is arguing. I simply pointed out that I have had different experiences.
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Oh sorry, I'll try to be constructive.
I don't think you're sending the message you want to.
It's stuff like this that makes me agree that private channels are the way to go.
too many people spam the current red alert channel with meaningless chatter as is.
Send Invite @DarkMarth
Other than you and one other person all I see is 3 pages of "please send me an invite" Ever think maybe its you?
Pardon? I never said anything about the intent or message that this thread is supposed to 'send.' What I did say was that my experiences were different from that of the OPs and that I do not see people asking for more players in an instance as 'spam.' If he wants a purely information channel then he's perfectly well off to do so.
Please read my post carefully and do not make blanket statements.
Considering In my post I Quoted -Songbird- and not you, I would say the same to you.
Once i get a bit more familiar with posting locations i'll do that as well.
here's bragsinall waiting for your channel .
Necro bump? It's from 2011.