because everyone should know

according to Spad_EU in another thread using /r can be used by free players to reply to tells, for the correct syntax see the quote below

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Originally Posted by The_Spad_EU It's "/r <message>" similar to any other chat channel, except that it is directly to whomever last sent you a tell.

this should drastically help improve the communication between free and premium/VIP players, but we need to spread the word about it

On it.

If this works... what a boon!

Oh this is wonderful news, and I'm being incredibly non-sarcastic about this. I will be sure to spread the news about /r. I'll send tells and at the end write (To reply, type /r <message)", should be much more simple in syntax than t/ name(COMMA) message.

Not sure why the backspace button just automatically uses /t when you could just /r and do the same thing. Or maybe it's for when you've got two people sending you tells and you don't want a mistell because someone else messaged you before pressing send.

So there we have it, free players can reply to tells after all and it didn't cost the devs any work time to do it. It would've been nice if you could send tells to server and global friends but eh, I can deal for now.

For the most user-friendly result just get the F2Per to c/p this:

Code:

/bind BACKSPACE "beginchat "/r ""

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Originally Posted by Necrotech_Master according to the default keymapping backspace should be mapped to reply function

Pretty sure the default does use /tell.

The BACKSPACE key is bound to: /autoreply which is a command that only works in binds or macros. It begins chat with the /t command and the name of the person who last sent a /tell.

Rebinding BACKSPACE as Wintry has it will work.

Does /tl also work for freebies? /tl is "send a tell to the last person I sent a tell to". I'm about to head off for work and won't return for many hours, so hopefully someone has confirmed or denied /r and /tl in-game with a free account by the time I get back! If not, will do so myself and report in.

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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.

...and knowing is half the battle.

Is it working for completely Free players (i.e.; have made zero purchases on the Market)? If they've made even one purchase of points, they would have access to private tells.

/bind BACKSPACE "beginchat "/r ""

Worked for a brand new created free account that was sent a test message.

Now that this is on the boards, expect it to get fixed.

Edit: What Z said.

personally i think its fine as is, free players cannot spam tells, they can only reply to tells, which is what ive seen in at least a dozen threads between a 1-2 weeks pre freedom and some post freedom requesting that free players at least have the ability to reply to tells

I would love for free players to be able to use /r. I think it would do a lot to cut down on the local and broadcast spam of people organizing invites and whatnot.

What's the worst case? someone whose costume I complimented turns out to be a gold seller and I start getting ads? That's what /ignore is for.

I see no downside to this, so please reconsider.