Dear Uber, is there any chance of a rethink on global chat?

Considering the UI in PA is a webbrowser that probably will be easy to solve by mods if it isn't perfect out of the box. And the cool thing about a chat is that you can tell everyone to go install pamm to fix the issue with the chat/whatever else. So there is a good chance to directly help people who have issues with the game in any way by telling them helpful things in chat. Currently people who have issues with the game just turn away :/

hmmm

yeah /push

Soooooo yeah, If we had a global chat right now, id ask if y'all wanna join my comp stomp.

But I would never support such a............

But yeah, this is a time when it would be cool.

A global chat would be such a nice addition to that rework of the main menu that @jables spoke about.
It also is a perfect system to help new players find people they can ask for help.

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I'll tr hosting again later then, as it seems no one wants to play comp stomp on the PTE right now.

I'd love for a global chat like in Forged Alliance: Forever, which I've been playing the heck out of the past month (and taking a break from PA) while waiting for a few more PA updates. I really like the sense of community they have, and would like that to be integrated into PA, so it's not so segmented that while you're waiting, you can only chat with those in your small lobby. Instead, being able to chat, while waiting, in a massive lobby of whoever just wants to chat.

I like it when this thread pops up again.

I am still wary aboiut having it on the main menu however.

The MP hosting menu, yeah sure, but main menu?

Id prefer it wasn't.

That seems reasonable. Or how a button that just says 'CHAT' that you can click on from anywhere in the menus to open it?

Acceptable.

After I just dug into my old screenshots folder and looked at a screenshot of old FA-Galactic War memories of GPGnet days hit me and made me realize just how much a global chat is missing.

And hey it's been a month since this thread got its last push, so why not post my feelings here

I wonder how many people we could have helped there who bought the game on a whim in the steam sale, played a game or two vs the AI and decided the game is bad because of simple to solve issues. If we had a chat we could've probably helped some of them find their way into the core parts of the community instead.

Please, Uber? PLEASE?

Can no longer remember why anyone would object to this or with what arguments.

Don't want to look back through thread for fear it will kill my brain.

I could say something but ...

The least i am gonna say though is that i dont want it be shoved Into my face ... put it into multiplayer as default minimized window

Thumbs up for global chat, plus regional channels will be super cool.

Cool, works for me, problem solved. Uber can implement now pls.

Yeah it still kinda boggles my mind that PA doesn't have global chat yet. As others have pointed out, it makes new players feel alone. It is natural to ask for help, after all.

uh another reason for a chat: If it has both stable and PTE players in one place PTE can become a better place, because you can more easily ask "does anyone want to play a PTE game?"

So true. If there's no one on my clan teamspeak there's not even any point in booting up PTE which limits testing a fair bit. Can't imagine I'd ever use it if I wasn't in a clan tbh.

Absolutely agree. I think if you add a rich Player Profile feature to that PA may have a lively in-game-community feeling close to perfection (see https://forums.uberent.com/threads/...ding-full-visible-ranking.66416/#post-1046797 ).