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toddmillhouse
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I'm Trapped in a chat channel.
Can't leave it, logging out doesn't remove it and manually trying to leave it both by using the UI and by typing /Channel_leave isn't working.
I'm to understand the channel in question "Trade" is from Champions online. Cross game chat is cool and all but not being able to leave a channel or even speak in that channel is a bit stupid. I need some resolution to this issue. Other than the one I heard of installing Champions and removing myself from the channel in that game. .. I don't want to install another game just to remove a chat channel .. its BAD Design to make it that way.
Can't leave it, logging out doesn't remove it and manually trying to leave it both by using the UI and by typing /Channel_leave isn't working.
I'm to understand the channel in question "Trade" is from Champions online. Cross game chat is cool and all but not being able to leave a channel or even speak in that channel is a bit stupid. I need some resolution to this issue. Other than the one I heard of installing Champions and removing myself from the channel in that game. .. I don't want to install another game just to remove a chat channel .. its BAD Design to make it that way.
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If you don't want to install CO (I wouldn't want to either, just to fix an issue in a different game) you can right click your chat tabs and uncheck the Trade channel so you at least won't see the chatting.
Joined January 2009
That would be a good solution, However it doesn't show it. Going into the Chat UI and trying to leave the channel that way doesn't work, can't stop it from displaying and to top it all off, I can't even speak in the channel.
This is the Support forum I would like to think actual support personel are looking at these threads.
Send This Issue To The Devs For Imideate Repair... My chat box is being spammed in such a way that Chat is for all intents and purposes useless to me because I can't see whats being said as its scrolling to damned fast.
http://i.imgur.com/bIHlAVg.jpg
Joined January 2009
No there isn't the cross game chat Trade channel is broken or buged or something so I can't leave it or talk in it. I just want to get the damned thing off. As I said previously Chat is basically useless for me in STO because the spam from the Trade Channel is appearing in every window including new ones I make.
from there you can untick & leave that global channel once and for all
and trust me, you will install it just for doing that
resistance is futile
Hate to resort to ignoring people just for talking in trade but I guess there is no other option left.
:mad:
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So I'm going to post the old workaround I found back then. I'm not sure if it works, but maybe it can be adapted and also works as a solution for removing the trade channel messages:
Of course you would have to replace "MessageType Emote" with "MessageType Trade", and maybe even add "MessageTypeFilterMode Exclusive"to the file in the first place.
That might look like this:
pChatConfig
{
eaChatTabGroupConfigs
{
Name 0
eaChatTabConfigs
{
Title Chat
DefaultChannel Zone_Kfr_Sol_Starbase_Ground
ChannelFilterMode Exclusive
MessageTypeFilterMode Exclusive
MessageType Emote
MessageType NPC
MessageType Mission
MessageType Reward
MessageType Trade
}
Please note that as I said before, I don't claim ownership of this 'fix'. And I haven't tested it. Use at your own risk. And don't forget to make backups.
Good luck.
The reason it did not work seems to be that the channel is not valid (formatting or compatibility) within STO, hence STO doesn't know how to filter it or remove it(leave) from the game.
What we are going to do is very similar to above, but do it using the default settings for chat channels instead of the exclusive mode. (As exclusive can't filter it)
Skip this section if you don't want instructions and just want the code:
*************************************************************************
Instructions:
NOTE: To get a full list of valid MessageTypes
(as the channel name and how it is coded are not always the same i.e. Tell = Private)
- in game
- open "Chat Settings"
- "Add New Window"
- Select your new window
- deselect all game channels in your new window
- exit chat ettings
- open "options" -> "HUD"
- "Save UI"
- open the file in notepad or similar text editor
- edit the file
- search for Chat
-- Remove the following lines after DefaultChannel in the desired tab (each tab has Title xxxx):
ChannelFilterMode Exclusive
MessageTypeFilterMode Exclusive
-- Add / Edit the Messages you want to display (ie):
MessageType Friend
MessageType Guild
MessageType Emote
MessageType Private
MessageType TeamUp
MessageType Team
- save in editor
- "Load UI" in game
*************************************************************************
In the file Star Trek Online\Live\ui-settings.txt
find pChatConfig
remove the pChatconfig section and paste the following (change ##### to you fleet number):
pChatConfig
{
eaChatTabGroupConfigs
{
Name 0
eaChatTabConfigs
{
Title Chat
DefaultChannel Guildid_Holodeck#####
MessageType NPC
MessageType Combatself
MessageType Combatteam
MessageType Combatother
MessageType Inventory
MessageType Local
MessageType Match
MessageType minigame
MessageType Mission
MessageType Officer
MessageType Zone
MessageType Rewardminor
MessageType Reward
MessageType System
MessageType Friend
MessageType Guild
MessageType Emote
MessageType Private
MessageType TeamUp
MessageType Team
}
eaChatTabConfigs
{
Title NPC
DefaultChannel Local
MessageType NPC
MessageType System
}
eaChatTabConfigs
{
Title Combat
DefaultChannel Local
MessageType Combatself
MessageType Combatteam
MessageType Combatother
MessageType Rewardminor
MessageType System
}
eaChatTabConfigs
{
Title MyDam
DefaultChannel Local
MessageType Combatself
MessageType CombatTeam
}
eaChatTabConfigs
{
Title Fleet
DefaultChannel Guildid_Holodeck#####
MessageType Friend
MessageType Guild
MessageType Emote
MessageType Private
MessageType TeamUp
MessageType Team
}
CurrentTab 4
Time 452112602
}
pchCurrentTabGroup 0
pchCurrentInputChannel Guildid_Holodeck#####
pchStatusMessage "Join me, and together we will rule the instance!"
iVersion 25
fActiveWindowAlpha 0.899999
fInactiveWindowAlpha 0.449998
bShowMessageTypeNames 1
bProfanityFilter 1
}
NOTE: THE BROKEN CHANNEL IS NOT GONE, IT IS JUST NOT INCLUDED IN THE TABS
If you add anymore chat tabs or want changes then the same work around will need to be applied again for the new tab
The only real way of getting rid of the invalid channel may be to install Champions Online as it recognizes the channel properly.
Cheers
-prays to the patch gods-
Why isn't this fixed by now? yeesh
Welcome to one of the most annoying problems this game has. Taking it off once CO is installed takes seconds, but it sucks horribly to have to install the game just to take off one channel.
Readers beware: NEVER add the "trade" channel.
That forced me to write GM Tickets, that forced me to look for this thread.
That is one reason more to think that Craptic and PW have no interest in doing things "for the players". OMG! I am so frustrated with the Customer Service of Star Trek.
My Opinion is, there is no need for crossgame channels at all!
Why crossgame channels that have no use for 99% of all players in Star Trek? Why no fix such Problems immediately. Such thing NEVER need more than 1 or 2 Days to soleve if you really WANT to solve them.
First solution for me is to just completly erase such channels in Champions Online and just close any cross game channels AT ALL!
Its so damn annoying that Craptic/PW produces such immense Bugs all the time and don't have any interest in solving them as fast as possible.
I hope this will get fixed soon. I really think about stop playing. There are so many less bugged games in this world.
Command: /channel_leave trade = does't work
Leave button on channels tab = does't work
Channel from another game (i see other item etc.)
On selection list: [[UTRANSLATED]ChatConfig_MessageType_Trade]
Not possible to hide it too.
Not possible to inform channel admin to kick me - can't write on it.
reproduce: just join it.
Holodeck ticket #2,581,777: Unable to leave "Team" channel
I suspect that all the built-in channels have the same problem. My guess is that the game allows users to create and join channels with the same name as built-in channels, but it doesn't allow to you leave such a channel precisely because it has the same name as a built-in channel. They have a check for leaving, but not for joining or creating. Since the chat servers are shared between all of Cryptic's games, there is probably no one team responsible for maintaining them. I'm not sure who would be responsible for fixing this bug: the STO team? the Neverwinter team? the Champions team?
I play on a mac and just fell into this trap. And because Champions Online is for windows only, I can't install it to remove the "trade" channel.
So now i'm stuck with spam that I can't even hide...
It's an irritating channel that can be just as bad as ESD and sector zone chat at times and we should have the option to leave it.
I found a workaround if you don't want to install CO. Setup your "NPC" or "combat" tab as your chat box by clicking whatever channels you want displayed in them. Trade will still be in the other tabs but won't be in those. Setting up a new tab doesn't work so you will only be limited to two non-trade chat tabs so keep that in mind when you set them up.