Do you use global channels? Do you set colors?

This is a dugfromtheearth kind of thread. Only maybe he doesn't use global channels so he'd never ask this. I dunno.

I am subscribed to multiple global channels, most of them Virtue centric since I play there. I'm subscribed to several that I almost never pay attention to -- one channel each for Justice, Victory, Freedom, and Exalted, and also at least 3 Virtue channels that I don't pay much attention to -- VirtueUnited, VirtueBadges09, and some LRSF villain TF channel that I can't even remember the name of.

But I use several channels a lot: TF channels MG's Taskforces and AntebellumRevolution, TF/Chat channels Brickhouse Chat and Robokitty, and pure market chat channel The Market. I'm a mod for MG's Taskforces and also for the Hero Force global channel, which Power (HF leader) doesn't like people to use for chat, because he's all old-school and wants people to use Coalition chat to talk to each other.

Colors: When I found out you could set the colors of different global channels, I made MG's Taskforces purple, Brickhouse Chat blue, and Robokitty pink. Probably I should have made AntebellumRevolution purple because that's Freaky's channel and his characters are always purple... but nah. Now I've found that if I log into an alt that doesn't have these channel colors set, I have to fix it right away or it drives me crazy. Brickhouse Chat doesn't look right unless it's blue.

I made The Market channel bright green (the color of money!) on one toon this week, and now I think I'll have to do that on all of my characters, or that will drive me crazy too.

Yes and yes

I have up on trying to use different colors back when they implemented it into the game and they wouldn't stay set...

Global channels:
Absolutely. Maybe not all of them on every character (I don't really care about server specific TF channels on other servers, for instance,) but I've got a fair number of them.

Colors:
... I've actually never set up channel colors, to be honest. Whole-UI colors, sure (but infrequently.)

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I am in a ton of global channels. Other than /team and /tell, it's almost the only way I communicate in this game.

I don't color them because I don't want my chat window to be *too* eye-catching (I have fairly severe ADD and color splashes are bad for my wow look at that really cool goldfinch sitting on a branch outside my window!!

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I just use separate tabs. I keep the colors default.

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I color all my global channels. I try to keep all 15 channels different a different color even though I have separate chat tabs for each server. I also try to avoid accidentally recreating the color of any of the default game channels. Even though you can use different colors for the top and bottom half of the channel font, I keep them both the same for a flat look.

Yes and Yes. The colors vary from character to character because it's enough for me just to see the conversations broken into separate color groups.

I only color the channels I care about and leave the rest default.

Wait wait wait wait, you can set colors for channels? Why was I not informed and how would I go about doing such a thing?

On a side note, in case anyone wasn't aware, you can also set colors to player names via Menu-->Options.

I use gobal channels all the time. I mostly use the ones for TFs and trial forming, though. As for colors, I always put the channels in their own separate tab, so I never saw any need to change their colors.

I generally find Broadcast, Team, Local, and Tells (and now League on very rare occasions) to be way more than enough to keep up with as it is. The few times I've been bullied into joining an extra channel, that channel proved to ultimately be worthless for one reason or another.

Yes and Yes.

The first time I learned we could set the colours of our global channels, my colour selection didn't stick. The channel colour reset when I zoned. This bug persisted for so many years I'd all but given up.

When they finally got off their hands and fixed the colour resetting issue, I did spend a lot of time fiddling with colours. What I found out was that it's VERY easy to make your Global channel fiendishly difficult to read. I'd picked a pure blue primary with a black secondary and that just turned into an ink blot. I forget what the right kind of colour correlation is these days, but it's quite limiting.

I have I think six Global channels I'm a member of, and all of they have distinct colours, though I accidentally gave Victory Badges and Victory Forum almost the same colour so I keep mixing them up.

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I use globals! One channel for all my characters, and depending on the server the character may get some others. Like I have the virtue tf channels, the freedom badge channels, and sometimes the pinnacle badge channel if I'm in the mood for the extra chatter.

I have to use colours on my global channel tabs simply because otherwise i lose track of whats being said on which channel.
Union Chat is quite often talkative so having the badge/tf channels on the same tab requires different colours so it catches my eye when something is being recruited for on one of those channels x)

No. Never. Absolutely not.

Joined a couple of globals in 2010 and found them to be boring, inane and totally devoid of useful information. Now I delete all the chat tabs I can and edit out broadcast, local & private messages when setting up a new character. Only info I see is mandatory game info. LMTF alone while in-game. Color that Bright Red.