Come on Bioware, whats going on? You locked crossfaction "tells" because you thought players would bash each others after pvp. Now pvp zones are imp vs imp / rep vs. rep too and nothing would stop people from bashing. Why keep that sh*t? And what about that "bug" that /e emotes are not readable from the other faction?

At the RP community meeting a year ago you said that you guys weren't even aware of that and would fix it.

I know there is more "important" things to do like butting more stuff into the cartel market to make money but you can't tell me that this would take alot of time.

 

Atleast crossfaction /e emoting!

 

this is a RP-player rant

 

over and out!

you can talk with /say

It'll be in 2.3: Rise of the Trolls

I love it when a group of jedi tries to gank me and I force cloak and then spam HAHA U FAIL in /say

Yep, /signed.

Bashing others happens in same faction too.

I've seen it, joined groups where it happened, sees it in general chat sometimes...

It makes no sense at all to restrict chatting cross-faction to /say only.

What would be the purpose of cross-faction communication? Smack talk?

 

I don't think this is an RP rant. It's just yet another PvP QQ.

The only thing I'd like to see is cross-faction Guild chat. A way to link two guild chats together.

 

Just a small annoyance though. I was playing a Pub toon yesterday, and everyone in our guild was on Imp side. Don't really want to join a "populated" Pub guild -- because I rarely play my pub toons.

What would be the purpose of cross-faction communication? Smack talk?

 

I don't think this is an RP rant. It's just yet another PvP QQ.

 

RP and socializing. The rest of us shouldn't have to suffer if PvPers are too immature to handle it.

Imagine General Chat.....

 

Please, never allow cross-faction public chat. Tells, sure. Public chat, please no. Except for /say which is already allowed of course.

RP and socializing. The rest of us shouldn't have to suffer if PvPers are too immature to handle it.

 

Yep and /ignore works pretty well. I don't get the need for the restriction.

Cross faction tells would be a bad thing for team based open world pvp. As if we had that though...

Yep and /ignore works pretty well. I don't get the need for the restriction.

 

The problem with ignore is that it thins the pool for potential flashpoint/warzone mates. Just because someone gets stupid in general chat when he gets bored doesn't mean he isn't worth running content with.

/say is working pretty well for me. no reason for corss faction whispering or something like that IMO

OP,

 

/say is cross-faction.

 

 

Yep and /ignore works pretty well. I don't get the need for the restriction.

 

Ignore in TOR is pathetic honestly. I mean c'mon only 128 slots is nothing. I have to deal with cycling ignores and re-ignoring hourly when I'm on. We really need at least 1000 for it to not be a joke.

Exactly why do you need cross-faction tells?

Exactly why do you need cross-faction tells?

 

so they can harass people.

Imagine General Chat.....

 

Please, never allow cross-faction public chat. Tells, sure. Public chat, please no. Except for /say which is already allowed of course.

 

/Agree.

No thanks. There're already enough dip ***** clogging up gen. chat and whispering nonsense from same factions.

 

RP with /say or talk to them via the force.

Edited May 9, 2013 by Joesixxpack

/say is not enough for RP.

 

In dept RP storylines need to be coordinated OOC as well as RP-PvP in some case. Thats why we don't see much of it here, areas and communications are too restrictive. Even custom emotes are blocked.

 

Cross-faction custom channels and tells would be a great asset to the game and make things a lot easier for those who want to run cross-faction stories and events.

 

Open all channels to all factions except PvP and General and give the user the option to activate or not cross-faction communications.

As far as I've tested it /say works in WZ but not in open world.

 

As a side note, DCU had 'versus' chat and that worked fine. Ok, there was some baiting, flaming and unpleasantness - but how is that any way different to single-faction general chat?

 

Let us talk to the imps!

there are some trools various roleplayers have found to address this. mostly third party chat programs and the like it's not perfect. but even among those who use such tools you don't see a lot of people useing it.

As far as I've tested it /say works in WZ but not in open world.

 

As a side note, DCU had 'versus' chat and that worked fine. Ok, there was some baiting, flaming and unpleasantness - but how is that any way different to single-faction general chat?

 

Let us talk to the imps!

 

Of course /say works in the open world.... or am I just seeing things and talking to myself?

There is no point to being unable to talk across faction.

 

Story and lore wise...we all speak galactic basic. and some characters may know other languages etc.

 

Game wise...I'd sooner bash the morons i get grouped with then a player who skillfully slaughtered me. Hell...i'm more likely to ask him how he pulled that off!

 

 

This needs to be changed. everyone should be allowed to chat. period. It will never happen unless bioware comes up with a way to sell it on the cartel market. then it will get patched in within a week or two.

RP would certainly benefit from Cross-faction emotes, if nothing more. Some other forms of cross-faction communication are often helpful as well. I know when I RP with friends, we often go to Party chat so that our own RP isn't all jumbled into the local chat and vice-versa. Cross-faction grouping is obviously not part of the gameplay, but cross-faction tells would at least allow some of this. Cross-faction custom chat channels would be the real solution, IMO.

 

As custom channels can be passworded, it allows some protection from harassment -- only those who you want to communicate with would be there. In a similar vein, if they would allow cross-faction friends-lists, then they could allow cross-faction tells from people on your friends list.

 

These type of functions would also be very useful/helpful for those of us in smaller guilds who play on both Republic and Imperial sides. A way for the Rep & Imp guildies to communicate easily for impromptu gaming/grouping would be a great asset, IMO.

Cross faction custom channels could work for organizing RP. That way it wouldn't clog everyone's chat log, especially those who don't want it.