The sovereign & creative world patch has been rather epic so far, and with that the boundless universe has expanded quite a bit. Have noticed an increase in general chat use like the Q&A for off topic discussions. Dont mind this personally, it is very nice to see the game active and lively, but it may be a good idea at this point to perhaps add new chat channels, maybe sorted regionally{?} and some controls to edit which ones you wish to see. Players are spread all over now so the static world channels dont have the same reach, and not everyone is guilded or is new to boundless. Been seeing general reminders from players towards the current Q&A chat to not flood it, so far all gentle and not rude but could see it becoming a problem as more players join the game in future. Thoughts?
BTW, I’m not sure, but there’s no way to talk to all people currently on the same world as you, right?
There are three options for same world chat atm, accessed by expanding the chat options, -say- short range local vicinity, -shout- long range local, and -whisper- which pops up a list of all players currently on that world for sending private messages. Other options are joining a guild for access to their channels or using Discord or PSN chats for voice. Currently the Q&A, Trading, and Community Events general chats text chats are the only text chats apart from guild chats and pm’s that are interplanetary.
I honestly say we shouldn’t get any new chat channels until the chat system gets as a whole gets overhauled from its current form with how delayed messages get in them. We need chat to be realtime, not asynchronous. Thank you devs.