Suggestion: Global Friend Chat for Freebies
By
Aggelakis,
Posted on: 2011-10-03 14:32 in Suggestions and Ideas
This requires all being on the same server, but:
Player A: /friend Player B
Player B: /friend Player A
There is a chat channel called "Friends". Player A and Player B can now talk to each other on that channel, regardless of where they are on the server.
/f Hi, Player B! How are you doing tonight?
Note that if Player C friends Player A but not Player B, Player C will see comments made by Player A to Player B, but will not see Player B's responses.
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Originally Posted by Dispari
I don't know why Dink thinks she's not as sexy as Jay was. In 5 posts she's already upstaged his entire career.
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Originally Posted by Aggelakis
This requires all being on the same server, but:
Player A: /friend Player B Player B: /friend Player A There is a chat channel called "Friends". Player A and Player B can now talk to each other on that channel, regardless of where they are on the server. /f Hi, Player B! How are you doing tonight? Note that if Player C friends Player A but not Player B, Player C will see comments made by Player A to Player B, but will not see Player B's responses. |
Unfortunately freebies cannot use the friend channel. We tried it. My friend could see my comment but i could not see his replies. I believe the reason for this is that server friending someone requires no confirmation on the other person's part and a free rmt'r could load up a friend list with names it sees in game and simply spam its rmt messages in friend chat.
Jem - Ill/Rad Controller Lv 50+3 Nic - Mind/Psi Dominator Lv 50+3 Lady Liberation - Invuln/SS Tanker Lv 50+1 Invicitx - Demon/Pain Mastermind Lv 50+1 Celeste - Emp/Arch Defender Lv 50+1 Nightsilver - DB/WP Scrapper Lv 34 Dusk Howl - StJ/Regen Brute Lv 32 Kyriani - Time/Energy Defender Lv 41Psifire - FF/Psi Defender Lv 50
Star Lighter - LB/LA Peacebringer Lv 30
Freems get Friends channel. Using an old account that used to be a trial account and was converted to a Freem account, I chatted with my main account via /f. (The error message listed in the top pane is because I accidentally tried to talk in /f before actually friending Krkutnir.)
NOTE: Friends channel isn't added to your window automatically. Make sure your window actually has Friends in it.
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Originally Posted by Dispari
I don't know why Dink thinks she's not as sexy as Jay was. In 5 posts she's already upstaged his entire career.
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Originally Posted by Kyriani
Unfortunately freebies cannot use the friend channel. We tried it. My friend could see my comment but i could not see his replies. I believe the reason for this is that server friending someone requires no confirmation on the other person's part and a free rmt'r could load up a friend list with names it sees in game and simply spam its rmt messages in friend chat.
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1. As Agge demonstrated it does work.
2. RMTers can't use it to spam anyone because they have to be added to their targets /friend list in order to be seen first.
hmm maybe it doesnt work if you just global friend? Cause me and my friend global friended but not server friended the specific character... i'll have to test this..
Jem - Ill/Rad Controller Lv 50+3 Nic - Mind/Psi Dominator Lv 50+3 Lady Liberation - Invuln/SS Tanker Lv 50+1 Invicitx - Demon/Pain Mastermind Lv 50+1 Celeste - Emp/Arch Defender Lv 50+1 Nightsilver - DB/WP Scrapper Lv 34 Dusk Howl - StJ/Regen Brute Lv 32 Kyriani - Time/Energy Defender Lv 41Psifire - FF/Psi Defender Lv 50
Star Lighter - LB/LA Peacebringer Lv 30
Well of course. /f uses the character friends list. 
That's why I said /friend Player A, not /gfriend Player A.
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Originally Posted by Dispari
I don't know why Dink thinks she's not as sexy as Jay was. In 5 posts she's already upstaged his entire career.
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The problem was likely because your free friend didn't friend you as well. Both have to be friended to each other to see each others messages, otherwise one may not be able to see the others message.|
Originally Posted by Kyriani
Unfortunately freebies cannot use the friend channel. We tried it. My friend could see my comment but i could not see his replies. I believe the reason for this is that server friending someone requires no confirmation on the other person's part and a free rmt'r could load up a friend list with names it sees in game and simply spam its rmt messages in friend chat.
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As for RMT's using it, I'm worried about that too. The idea of free accounts allowed to use global friends chat may be a good idea. RMT's could spam you with global invites but wouldn't be able to send their message and would likely not bother.
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It's not a global friends chat. It's just a friends chat using the regular /friends list on an individual server. And RMT can't abuse it because both parties have to be on each others /friends list to work.|
Originally Posted by Beltor
The problem was likely because your free friend didn't friend you as well. Both have to be friended to each other to see each others messages, otherwise one may not be able to see the others message.
As for RMT's using it, I'm worried about that too. The idea of free accounts allowed to use global friends chat may be a good idea. RMT's could spam you with global invites but wouldn't be able to send their message and would likely not bother. |
RMTers can add hundreds of players to their friends list and spam all day long and no one will see a thing because none of their victims have the RMTers on their /friends list.
Unless I am misremembering to Global Friend someone requires the other party to accept the request. Assuming I am not mistaken wouldn't it be helpful to at least let Freebie players have access to some sort of Global Friend chat?
I recently got a few friends to try out COH but we had a difficult time chatting in game if we weren't in a group together. As much as I understand the need for some chat limitations due to RMT, it would be nice to have some method of maintaining communication with friends who are still freebies without being on the same team.
Jem - Ill/Rad Controller Lv 50+3 Nic - Mind/Psi Dominator Lv 50+3 Lady Liberation - Invuln/SS Tanker Lv 50+1 Invicitx - Demon/Pain Mastermind Lv 50+1 Celeste - Emp/Arch Defender Lv 50+1 Nightsilver - DB/WP Scrapper Lv 34 Dusk Howl - StJ/Regen Brute Lv 32 Kyriani - Time/Energy Defender Lv 41Psifire - FF/Psi Defender Lv 50
Star Lighter - LB/LA Peacebringer Lv 30