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wolfpacknz
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The last couple weeks I have had an annoying chat bug. I can't see 90% of what is being posted in a channel. The only posts I see are from people on my friends list. I have checked social settings and reset them to make sure there was nothing in there blocking. Anyone had this problem or know a fix? Would be nice to see what's being said in my fleets channel again..
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Real Join Date: Monday, 17 May 2010
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Have noticed this on occasion too
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I've tried resetting my chat settings and rejoining channels but still have the same problem and I've not got anyone blocked. Zone and local chatter have dissappeared completely.
- Damn the torpedos! Full speed ahead!
And before anyone says something, I have verified my privacy settings are allowing all; I've done that about 5 times now.
FOR CRYPTIC: Bug TKT # 1,468,157
Also, this is the 3rd tkt I have submitted about this. Even had a GM in game verify it was a bug. Still nothing and I don't expect to talk much in this game going forward.
Original Join Date: Jan 2010
Keep calm, and continue firing photon torpedoes.
So that makes me think it's a bug with the channels we're subscribed to, so does anyone know how to unsubscribe from Zone chat, that might be all that it needs to reset it.
Well for me the command "/Whitelist_chat 0" worked
Each time i login or swap maps i get Joined channel Zone, Joined Channel Fleet, Left channel Fleet.... can't see anything typed in Fleet or select Fleet from the chat drop down box... and i tried the /Fleet command which didn't work... because apparently i am not in a fleet... i do have a SB, mine and embassy and a whole fleet roster....
[Failed] Not in a fleet. :eek:
Curiously, in DOFFJOBS I can consistently [at least as far as I can tell] see one person in particular's messages, someone not in my fleet or friend list. Just a random person.
EDIT: Tried "/Whitelist_chat 0", seems to have reenabled local/zone chat. Thing is, I never toggled that setting before to begin with. No clue if custom chat is working 100% yet though.
My friend had this problem, and it is confirmed that this fix works.
Had the same problem tried everything, including full reinstalls.. and support were typically 'automated' in their response, so glad i found this little post hidden away here...
"/whitelist_chat 0" works like a charm.. now i can see whats going on once again.. w00t!!
so folks know.. whitelist is the same in our chat system as it is on your mobile phone (blacklists and whitelists) by setting it to 0 you are telling the system all contacts are cool (looked into it after i found this post) also found this stowiki link to the many other command codes available in game...
www.sto.gamepedia.com/List_of_console_commands
Go to Social (three-figure icon below mail next to minimap).
Go to Find Team or Team Settings tab.
Click Privacy.
Allow only friends and fleet to chat: OFF!!!
ON and you can only see F&F in chat, OFF you can see everyone. Only took me a few years to figure out....
I do not know why, I never use profanity nor even talk on chat other then explaining to new players what they need to do in the game, and the best way to do them like crafting, leveling and so on. Right now, I can't chat on the chat box at all. I can't PM or talk in Zone chat, or in a Channel or anything because my text never shows. I get the error when I try to use PMs, I do not know what is wrong, but this needs to get fixed as soon as possible because I can NOT use the chat at all no matter what I do.
1. "landing" on the wrong tab and not the last chosen (either this or 1st from left should be IMO the default), 1st in order from the left, or even the most commonly chosen e.g. by switching char/possibly wrong default tab (who wants for example to have combat tab the default one) this can be changed manually while noticing but it's annoying as it might be the default or the error happens frequently so it has to be changed frequently/each time possibly, and as people may miss conversations without being aware to. This could have been related to customization such as adding/changing order of tabs or accidentally removing then restoring tabs, no idea. Something possibly was positively changed in this regard since recently I had this issue a lot and yesterday and today I didn't notice it at all.
2. The privacy setting issues may cause you to ignore non fleet/friends even if it LOOKS like you allow others to tell or chat. As if an option wasn't stuck or updated in the past. The solution I've found personally to such is press the button AGAIN. you should get a message whitelist disabled for <which option you changed> and then it should apply/stuck. (you might have to do this with multiple characters though.) This issue could have been related to a past change of the privacy option and then restoring which didn't apply/stuck correctly.
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@ambrodeldk / @qziqza sometimes the option looks right but is not what it's really set for/not updated or applied. This happened to me.
Also, I guess the command suggested works, it's just not what I did (I essentially did similarly manually, before encountering your helpful response.)
Other issues to look at when not being able to chat - sometimes chat is offline, or there is some connectivity issue and joining chat channel might take time in such case or impossible. Other potential issues to think of - new silver account limitations (probably not applicable to the poster tough. 20 hours of play across your chars/c-store purchase/at least 1 zen in balance may be the easiest ways to relieve this limitation) or being mute. Not in fleet message while in fleet sounds to me like a temporary connectivity or chat server issue.