I18 and global chat channels


Catastrophe

 

Posted

Didn't see this posted elsewhere, so I'll bring it up here...

The I18/GR patch notes were rather... sparse (as were the I17 notes, frankly) so it's no surprise some things just weren't discovered by the playerbase before launch. I just had a very interesting discovery when I logged on and found myself a member of eleven global channels. I know the limit was increased from 5 to 10 when I12 launched, but what didn't seem to make the I18 patch notes is that the limit has been increased from 10 to 15. Tested this just to make sure (kept adding channels past 10 until it wouldn't let me add more) - however there's a really nasty catch. Opening the channel listing in your friends tab (i.e. same place your global and server friends list is) will cause the game to crash.

Of course, this begs the question of whether having more than 10 globals is supported and the crash is just a bug, or whether having more than 10 was unintended and the crash is a side effect. I'm figuring it's the former, myself, since there's a cap of 15 rather than none or some other arbitrary number. Anyone else see this?


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Posted

Nice find mac, now I can add Freedumb and Virtue TFs to my list


 

Posted

I'd be careful with that. I can think of at least two channels I want to join off the top of my head, possibly more, but I'm not going to join them until the crashing problem is fixed (I'd rather not crash every time I check my globals).


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Posted

I also experienced the crashing the week i18 launched and have since stuck to 10 channels, haven't tried it again.


Pinnacle
@Mr.Catastrophe

 

Posted

Iiiiiinteresting, I'll have to check this out. Nice find.


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Quote:
Originally Posted by Avatea View Post
Patch notes for build 1850.201007290124.26T3.

Chat
  • Fixed crash when clicking the Friends button while in 10 or more chat channels.
This has been part of the Training Room Patch Notes for awhile.

When this bug hit me last week I had to leave several channels on both accounts just to get the game to stop crashing on me.

We have 11 US Servers and are encouraged to use them all. There are usually a couple channels per server that are the active channels, along with SG Channels and Specialty channels for events and newly released issue content. I think it's time we ask that the Global Channel limit be revisited. I don't see why we couldn't have 20 channels. That would allow at least a channel per server and enough slack for SG obligations and specialty stuff.


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