Architect Chat to General Chat

A short suggestion.

Issue 15 introduced a serverwide channel named Architect Chat. That's... all that's really known of it, since it's not present in the interface and for the most part, knowledge of its existence is only spread by word-of-mouth.

Given the lack of need for an Architect-specific channel {even if it doesn't have an officially stated purpose} and the potential usefulness of a serverwide general chat channel, I propose that "Architect Chat" channel be renamed into "General" and be automatically added to the first tab that already receives Local or Broadcast channels.

Any thoughts on this?

An open letter to NCsoft

Sounds good to me.
Well, at least adding it into one of the default tabs for those that actually keep the default settings. The channel needs a little something in the way of "Hey look, here's a new channel and here's what it does."

Can you be a bit more specific?

An open letter to NCsoft

While I'm sure that I heard about the AE channel at some point earlier, I was only really reminded of it's existance by someone* on the Help Channel on Virtue.
And once I put it into a tab in the chatbox, I think that I've only heard one or two players use it, including the one that mentioned it on Help.
So, in my mind, it's a very underutilized resource, like the Help channel is on the non-Virtue servers that I've played on. ((No, I've definately not played on ALL the servers recently.))
An underutilized thing is a waste. Let's get some milage out of it.

A server-wide "broadcast" channel is what I've been wanting for some time. This would fit the bill.

/signed.

I thought the purpose of the channel was to move all the AE requests out of local and increase the number of people who would see the team requests.

I'm going with... well... not just no... but Hell No!

There already are two channels for General Chat... they are known as LOCAL and BROADCAST.

And if your reason to make it mandatory for players to access is because you don't think anybody else knows about it, and you don't see anybody else using it, I have two words for you: REQUEST / AUCTION.

About the only the Request / Auction channel is ever used is to co-ordinate Mothership Raids and Hamidon Raids, yet you don't see players who run these events begging for the channel to be made a mandatory default in the first tab, or renamed into something else.

Hey.... je saist... so you know of any channels that allow people to talk across the whole server and JUST the whole server?

Not Local. That's only within X number of feet from where you're standing.
Not Broadcast. That only within that zone.
Not Request. That's only Broadcast with a different color.
Not global channels. They are GAME-wide and can include people that are playing on any server.

We have every OTHER type of channel... so why is it that we don't have a general SERVER-wide channel when we have a channel for every other level?

The first and only server-wide channels I see so far are the Market and Arena channels, which are intended to a specific purpose. On top of that, they aren't even enabled by default, you have to go into your setting to turn them on.

So what's wrong with wanting a third channel that is server-wide... to go along with Local and Broadcast that's automatically added to one of your tabs every time you create a new character?

I think that Team and Local chat should be by default in the bottom pane, and Broadcast and this proposed Server channel should be by default in the top pane.

I'd love a default serverwide channel. Somewhere I could just say "Forming a Mothership Raid. Anyone who wants in come to the War Zone" without having to go zone by zone broadcasting.

we already have one. it's called arena chat. better known as: /ac