I agree with Takshaka.
Features that can be filtered out by the few that don't like should not be completely disabled. That's the point of having all those options at our disposal.
I think certain things should be enforced as much as possible such as keeping auctions in the auction channel. But as far as a couple annoying people in OOC, mute them.
The LFG tool does indeed work and maybe there should be a welcome message created as a reminder for newer players that might not think to try some of those features. Currently LFG is greatly underused and if the server pop does end up growing closer to 1000 then looking for a group in OOC might become a bit of a spam issue in the future.
With the low population on this server, the benefits of global OOC way outweigh the gripes. Just an example, I had a couple issues when I first started out and people were able to kindly answer my questions right away. In most of these cases my answers came from players not just in another zone, but on a whole other continent. Saved me from submitting quite a few reports for things that I originally mistook as bugs but turned out not to be (ie: shared bank slots).
just my 2 copper
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