Rivalwatch - Dragon Empires

[Bograt]

latest Newsletter for Dragon Empires has this to say about comminication in DE

Feature of the week - Chat system - Communication is crucial in an MMORPG. After all, if you can't talk to friends what's the point of the MM in MMORPG! Dragon Empires features an excellent and detailed chat system that lets players talk and shout locally, chat with their guild mates as well as send messages to friends anywhere in the world. Further, any player can create a custom chat channel and let people search for and join these channels from anywhere in the world. You can create a private channel for political discussions or to hatch your next evil scheme.


Seems they have a very comprehensive Chat System, this sort of system would suit me fine for Mythica

[esion]

Yeah that sounds pretty good, I really hope that Mythica implements a IM type chat system. I really hate when chat is in the global text menu and it flies by so fast. I want to be able to drag my conversations to other windows and arrange them all over the screen..let them be transparent and when i click on them they become opaque. I think having different channels for different types of chat makes chat very easy to read and notice.

One easy way to fix this without seperate windows, is breaking the global text menu into three sections...the top for damage, info, etc., the middle for guild and alliance chat, and the bottom for friend and say chat. I guess the order could be changed based on preference. And of course color needs to be able to be adjusted...

Izuih came by awhile ago and asked for thoughts on Combat Spew (http://www.mythicahq.com/forums/showthread.php?s=&threadid=1096) .
As well as some Alliance Stuff (http://www.mythicahq.com/forums/showthread.php?s=&threadid=934) here.
And of course the infamous UI Suggestion Thread (http://www.mythicahq.com/forums/showthread.php?s=&threadid=302) .

[Ævar Hrafn]

Yeah, I think there should be, Local Chat, Group Chat, world wide joinable channels such as auction channels and class specific channels. You should be able to send private msg's and you should be able to do a zone / module wide shout, or out of character msg. There should be an ingame e-mail msger so you can leave any one a msg even if they arent online, and the e-mail system should allow you to block players from being able to send you e-mails even if they can still send you tells and the other way around. Guild chat and Raid chat (if there are more than one group fighting together in some module or some thing you should be able to send every player in the raid a msg) there should also be private chat channels so that the raid leaders and group leaders in the raid can have a private channel where they can talk to each other with out getting interupted and you should be able to disable any of the channels at any time.