Little tips to improve the chat system
Posted: Fri Jul 29, 2005 8:24 am
Ok, now I've been playing Ryzom for only 14 days (yes, trial ended and now I'm a "real" Ryzom player) but what I still find hard to 'digest' is the chat system 
First of all, I think it would be very usefull to have a shortcut for the different chat mode.
IE, press key G and automatically Ryzom will type /guild<blank> in my default chat, press T and automatically Ryzom will type /team<blank>.
This way whenever I've to talk in team, I only have to type T followed by a message. Instead, what I have to do now is to:
- press enter
- press slash (which in my case it is ****F 7 so I've to press 2 keys--> italian keyboard)
- type team
- type blank
- type message
It takes forever
The same goes for guild and for region message
At least, please, introduce some shortcut like /te for team message, /gu for guild message and /re for region.
I know I can set the chat mode by clicking the little chat button which will set the chat mode to team/region/around/guild, but it is not very friendly to hit that button every time I've to change chat mode.
ATM when i'm in a team, I set the default chat mode to team; this way, every time I've to speak to someone not in my team, I end up typing the message 2 times because the 1st time I always forget I'm in team chat mode and I talk to team
Also if I type /guid<blank><message> (note I miss a 'l' in the /guild) and then press enter, my message will be lost and I have to type it all again.
It would be usefull to have a little chat buffer that hold the last 3 or 4 message so that I can recall the last message and correct the /guid in /guild.
Last suggestion, is to introduce a new key bind to enter the chat. Instead of pressing enter, I'd like for example to press another key (custum key bind) so that it will open the chat by automatically type slash<blank>
This way, to type /guild I will have to only press the custom key followed by 'guild' ..at least I avoid to presse Enter and to type slash.
I know this is not something so urgent or so important to add to Ryzom; after all, a lot of players have managed to chat without problems till now but, at the same time, I think this are very little details that are easy to implement and that will help all the new players (like me) coming from other MMOG that are used to this way of chatting.
Thank you for your patience, and excuse me for the english errors I've surely done.
PS: I've been trying to play with macro in order to create a macro to enter team/guild/region chat mode, but the macro function "enter talk mode" seems not to do anything at all

First of all, I think it would be very usefull to have a shortcut for the different chat mode.
IE, press key G and automatically Ryzom will type /guild<blank> in my default chat, press T and automatically Ryzom will type /team<blank>.
This way whenever I've to talk in team, I only have to type T followed by a message. Instead, what I have to do now is to:
- press enter
- press slash (which in my case it is ****F 7 so I've to press 2 keys--> italian keyboard)
- type team
- type blank
- type message
It takes forever

The same goes for guild and for region message
At least, please, introduce some shortcut like /te for team message, /gu for guild message and /re for region.
I know I can set the chat mode by clicking the little chat button which will set the chat mode to team/region/around/guild, but it is not very friendly to hit that button every time I've to change chat mode.
ATM when i'm in a team, I set the default chat mode to team; this way, every time I've to speak to someone not in my team, I end up typing the message 2 times because the 1st time I always forget I'm in team chat mode and I talk to team

Also if I type /guid<blank><message> (note I miss a 'l' in the /guild) and then press enter, my message will be lost and I have to type it all again.
It would be usefull to have a little chat buffer that hold the last 3 or 4 message so that I can recall the last message and correct the /guid in /guild.
Last suggestion, is to introduce a new key bind to enter the chat. Instead of pressing enter, I'd like for example to press another key (custum key bind) so that it will open the chat by automatically type slash<blank>
This way, to type /guild I will have to only press the custom key followed by 'guild' ..at least I avoid to presse Enter and to type slash.
I know this is not something so urgent or so important to add to Ryzom; after all, a lot of players have managed to chat without problems till now but, at the same time, I think this are very little details that are easy to implement and that will help all the new players (like me) coming from other MMOG that are used to this way of chatting.
Thank you for your patience, and excuse me for the english errors I've surely done.
PS: I've been trying to play with macro in order to create a macro to enter team/guild/region chat mode, but the macro function "enter talk mode" seems not to do anything at all