manus wrote:Only an ignorant person would believe this wouldnt be the case.
Only an ignorant person would make broad claims about player behavior with no supporting evidence or even references to current behavior that might reasonably lead to the behavior you're saying will occur. You have none of that, you're just saying that if we magically change Local to a Region wide chat channel that people will somehow be more active in it, despite that killing the few uses Local already sees. Namely smack-talk with people you're about to fight, fighting currently, or have just fought and throwing out things like "GF" or "Good Fight" and the like. None of that applies or works with a region-wide channel.
manus wrote:It is also voluntary if you want to participate in local chat. And it will also be voluntary if you want to participate if local chat was replaced with regional chat. But if you are so scared of socialising, there could be a setting to mute the chat.
Again though, if it's already voluntary to participate in Local, and it would be voluntary to participate in your Region chat, then why do we need Region chat? We already have all of these public channels, people just choose not to participate in them.
You have made zero case for this being any kind of improvement, you've just assumed it will be and gone from there.
manus wrote:Yes i have, and its not that bad. If you are concerned its a problem, there can be a restriction to link contracts. A timer. Maybe people would form actual trade chats then.
Trade chats and forums already exist, people spam contracts in trade-hub local because they're trying to reach a wide audience. Also there is currently no mechanism to prevent links of any sort in any channel, so that's more work CCP would have to do to implement this and another strike against it being worthwhile. It also wouldn't actually stop the spam, you just tell people "Search for X on contracts!" instead of linking directly.
manus wrote:Quick idea. What if there was a regional trade chat. Everyone participates by default but it can be disabled if you want. This chat will be for spamming contracts etc. In the general chat it will cost money to link. (This is to not restrict players from communicating contracts, but at the same time prevent people from spamming. in trade chat there will be less restrictions - for example only on very obvious spam perhaps)
There are already trade channels and there's zero reason to restrict trade to a single region. Someone currently out in Period Basis may want to sell something currently sitting in Jita.
There is no need of a Region wide channel, and I think it's been made very clear that very very few people want it, and those that do just want local removed because they think it will make their gameplay easier or better.