Even on Celestial Hills, an RP server, a certain sub-species of player is trying to co-opt the LFG channel and turn it into Area chat. Even though the game designers specifically put in a channel for people to use in local areas to chat about whatever they want, for these clowns this is not enough.

Please, En Masse, before things get even worse and LFG becomes completely useless (because it gets buried in 4-chan level idiocy, or because a number of decent players disable it) POLICE THIS CHANNEL! Please get GMs to issue warnings in LFG. I have already reported a large number of players for chat abuse in the hope someone will take notice that this has become a problem.

Please issue personal warnings if players refuse to use LFG for its intended purpose, and if they persist in abusing it, please ban them or delete the offending character. If someone is reported numerous times for this, please, do something. Make it become general knowledge that abusing the LFG channel will have meaningful consequences, Do not let the selfish and immature ruin the quality of your new game.

first off their isn't a damn thing they can do about it, no one has ever been able to do so in any mmorpg so just get over it

Bzzzz! Wrong answer! Next.....

Quote: Numenora on 05/16/2012, 03:08 PM - view They can't force people to use the Lfg channel for nothing but looking for groups... They have already said this... And by the way do you understand what preventing that would entail? They would need to bring down the ban hammer because people wont stop using it to talk in, why do you think trade chat in woW isn't used for trade? Same can be said for lotro though they had the sense to give people private channels that weren't deleted if no one was using it, the list goes on fool.... grow up... BUZZZZZZZZZZZ retarded question given by a ten year old [filtered] sucking fool :) Move on to the next troll post

Should give every character a cooldown of 20 seconds for each message for the channel.

You don't need to spam that channel to find a group lol and it'll stop everyone from using that channel. so win win.

Err.. Suroh let me put the Celestial Hills LFG chat in perspective.

It was so bad yesterday that we ended up having a several second chat delay. As in, I would type something, and it would not actually post it until 10 seconds after I hit enter. This was entirely because people were spamming LFG for stupid, and idiotic reasons. Once the server population dwindled and people stopped using LFG, it started workin again.

In this case, it would actually be better if there was no LFG chat, or if they simply made it so you could only post every few minutes, because right now it is literally destroying the server.

Policing the channel is not feasible. What they should do IMO is just add a global "random chat", then LFG can stay global and be used for LFG, and people can chat/spam/whatever in the other chat (or they can turn it off).

Quote: Zenning on 05/16/2012, 03:19 PM

edited to add this....This sounds an awful lot like the lag that happens every night at 10pm eastern time (7pm pacific). Usually only lasts for about a minute. I've never had lag like that at any other time (I'm on the Dragonfall server).

So something hasn't been done before, so it can't be done. If mankind had your attitude all along, we'd still be sitting in the mud picking boogers out of our nose, which may be what you are doing, but not me. I knew some LFG troll would come on here and defend their right to ruin a game.

This post isn't addressed to the likes of you. It's addressed to En Masse, and hopefully they will start to do some basic things like give people warnings. Goodbye, Surah, kiddo..

Quote: SkyWright on 05/16/2012, 03:19 PM - view they do have a set limit to how many messages can be entered in a specific amount of time :)

Zenning I understand man it's the same on my server as well ( i'm sure on all of em) But they really can't do any thing short of suspending people for spam which they wont. I would suggest forming your own channels and using them instead :) Or just shutting off the Lfg channel and just using the area chat :)

I really don't see why people are complaining about LFG. Every single MMO I play is like this...
Maybe Tera has a more mature community? One can only hope.