Open chat channels limited to stations and no fire zones

[Viajero]

Bear with me and apologies if this has been discussed in the past.

Let me pick up this comment by Sandro Sammarco of last year:

Offensive behaviour during communication, whether in game or on the forums is always unacceptable. We will have some form of reporting/investigation service to service this. We will also allow players to "ignore" communications so that they don't have to listen/read stuff that doesn't interest them (on a related note - I'm very dead set against session-wide or bigger chat channels. In my opinion they ruin ambience and are uneccessary for Elite: Dangerous).

The last bit about no wide open channels, I guess I can understand where he is coming from. But there is maybe also a case to be made for a restricted version of that limited to commanders in the interior of stations or respective no fire zones.

- The area itself is supposed to be busier with a higher pilot and NPC density etc, so an open chat channel in there limited to each station may not be totally out of whack ambience-wise
- New or rookie players will always need a degree of peer help when starting out, some degree of easy chat interaction that can reach a reasonable amount of players that can potentially help can not be a bad thing for a pleasant newcomer experience. And most of the initial time of newcomers will be around starting systme stations etc.

Of course there are now many more bigger and larger issues to fix prior to release etc but, hey.

 

[adam]

I agree I'd love to have a station specific common open channel

 

[Robert Maynard]

As long as it can be switched off by the player - fine.

 

[Lowe1978]

Having an toggleable open, shared no fly zone/station channel would be a huge benefit for player heavy areas with regards to docking etc. You'd be able to state your intentions whilst docking - more of a thing for the Space Cows coming through the dock etc I guess, allowing them to warm people about to take off etc. I think it'd be quite an immersion enhancing experience.

 

[Viajero]

As long as it can be switched off by the player - fine.

Indeed. Sandro makes also clear that even the current chat plans could be toggled off, so if we dont want to see any text chat we wont. Same logic would apply to this local station chat poposal.