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

woops.

Did you just accidentally bump this thread, @tatsujb ?

totally accidentally dude.

You did it again.... And @eukanuba, and now I'm bumping it... Oh the humanity!

That's really careless of you @cdrkf , you should pay more attention when you're posting on the forum.

how dare you guys

Atchoo! wha... uh... awwww...... dammit!

One more vote for global chat. And voice chat, for that matter.

Please, don't force me to watch a wall of text when I log in. Make it opt in.

@thehangedman Uber has stated in the past that they don't want to add voice chat do to inappropriate behaviour from people.

Also it's borderline pointless in an rts

global voice chat. Forced on everyone.
... okay for that I can understand why people would not want it

but for harmless text not so much

yeah who needs a community in a multiplayer mod-driven game anyways? pff! /S

What? What are you going to use voice chat for in an rts? Besides the fact that most in-game voice chat features are garbage compared to dedicated VOIP programs (see world of tanks and EVE).

it's text chat not voice chat we're debating here read the OP again

Well when playing team games with shared armies voice chat is essential for proper coordination.... Probably the first rts I've played where that is the case. Still I agree, current tools like team speak and game vox do the job fine. If I'd suggest anything on those lines would be a way to invite a player into said service from within the game (a bit like how they included twitch). No point re inventing the wheel

or game-link via mumble the way we use it on FAF

I really want this, and not just global but the ability to make channels (with/without passwords).
Something like what WC3 had, being able to make clan channels and channels for mods etc

There are a lot of games with channels like that, though I feel EVE still has the best.

Read the post he was responding to

I know but WC3 was the first to pop into mind as an example.