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During my time in Jambin for Station Repairs, I noticed an old (V3.0?) Problem with Text Chat.
In early Days (V1.x and V2.x), having a Target Ship of another CMDR locked and then entering Text Comms Panel to enter Text had always defaulted to this locked Player being the Comms Target.
Pressing TAB cycled through reasonable Comms Target alternatives then. Very intuitive and functional, as it allowed for very quick Comms of Opportunity or direct replies.
Sometime later (V3.x I believe) something changed and even with a locked Player, entering Comms would default on SYSTEM.
Problem : even when pressing TAB, the Comms Systems apparently only cycles through SYSTEM and LOCAL. The locked Target (desired Comms Target) never appears.
I often found even entering /t. (as shown by /help Summary) frequently fails to address the desired Target, same often happens with /r Option for some reason.
Only manually cycling through the Comms Panel Menu->Social->Players in this Instance, selecting Player->Direct Message reliably seems to establish a direct Text Comms then.
Would be neat to have any locked Player being the immediate and primary Comms Target again like in old times - or at least have TAB Key have it show up at minimum.
In early Days (V1.x and V2.x), having a Target Ship of another CMDR locked and then entering Text Comms Panel to enter Text had always defaulted to this locked Player being the Comms Target.
Pressing TAB cycled through reasonable Comms Target alternatives then. Very intuitive and functional, as it allowed for very quick Comms of Opportunity or direct replies.
Sometime later (V3.x I believe) something changed and even with a locked Player, entering Comms would default on SYSTEM.
Problem : even when pressing TAB, the Comms Systems apparently only cycles through SYSTEM and LOCAL. The locked Target (desired Comms Target) never appears.
I often found even entering /t. (as shown by /help Summary) frequently fails to address the desired Target, same often happens with /r Option for some reason.
Only manually cycling through the Comms Panel Menu->Social->Players in this Instance, selecting Player->Direct Message reliably seems to establish a direct Text Comms then.
Would be neat to have any locked Player being the immediate and primary Comms Target again like in old times - or at least have TAB Key have it show up at minimum.
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