GLOBAL ooc/auction. Poll time.

[nilbog]

Originally Posted by President [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

And those people have the option to turn it off..

I'm not telling classic eq players to turn off their ooc. Are you?

[President]

Originally Posted by nilbog [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

I'm not telling classic eq players to turn off their ooc. Are you?

There is still zone wide /shout. Again, would you like to respond to my previous post or cherry pick the ones you can respond to easily?

[Bones]

Originally Posted by President [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

And those people have the option to turn it off.. Quite simple...

I see no one has addressed my previous post just like in the last thread.

I like having the convenience of global chat, but we shouldn't have to forfeit our right to the global channels because a bunch of clowns want to hijack it for some stupid political/drug/other debate every single day, having to sit there and pile onto my /ignore list.

Seems to me that some sort of limit on messages per minute would help alleviate the spam from these stupid arguments, if it is possible.
I think people wouldn't mind the global channels so much if something like this could be implemented. It certainly would make the GM's job easier dealing with the ridiculous shit that gets spewed into /ooc every day.

[mgellan]

Originally Posted by nilbog [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

There is another side to this story. The people that do not play because there is ooc chat they don't want their kids to see.

Agree, when I play with my son (who's 8) I have to make sure OOC and auction are turned off, which is too bad, since it takes away from his classic first time experience with the game (although I have to admit I can't get him OUT of P1999 now!)

Regards,
Mg

[Stickyfingers]

Originally Posted by mgellan [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Agree, when I play with my son (who's 8) I have to make sure OOC and auction are turned off, which is too bad, since it takes away from his classic first time experience with the game (although I have to admit I can't get him OUT of P1999 now!)

Regards,
Mg

How will that change anything? People will still be yelling obscenities in zones, it might douse the issue a bit, but certainly won't nix it.

[mgellan]

Originally Posted by Stickyfingers [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

How will that change anything? People will still be yelling obscenities in zones, it might douse the issue a bit, but certainly won't nix it.

If some asshat is yelling in a zone, /ignore works nicely. Ignoring all of OOC isn't tenable nor desirable since for legit purposes it's very useful.

I vote to remove global OOC/Auction.

Regards,
Mg

[Glitch]

There's a bias here, because there is a majority of basement-dwelling, antisocial kids who don't care about gloabal chat!

If global ooc is going to be removed purely for sticking with a classic mentality, then item links have to go too. They ruin my immersion as much as reading something from a guy two zones away.
If you disagree, you're a hypocriteeeeeeee

[SchadenFreude]

There is so much spam in OOC / Auction, even in the off hours, that I completely ignore it. If it was restricted to just the current zone I would have time to read it, sometimes use it, but I would not be regarding it as "information overload".

There are other chat options available on Live to fill the serverwide communication void: Channels. I always opted out of these for the same reasons I now ignore OOC / Auction. When I did want to participate in a serverwide auction I would join the appropriate channel. Most times, my channel list was very limited.

This is not a pure "Classic" experience in the sense that every mistake or hardship is repeated. Remember having to actually look at a spell book until level 35? The book did not enhance gameplay. It just made it easy for a puma to sneak up on a wizard 59 minutes out of any given hour. For this reason, I beg you, please put the tradeskill recipes back. Make us learn them before the can be used, but don't make it an insane clickfest. My fingers hurt.

Aw crap. Now my back is going to hurt because I just pulled landscaping duty.

[mixxit]

71/40

[President]

Originally Posted by mixxit [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

71/49

Fixd