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NPC Dialog in Chat Box

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Munkfist
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I'm at a complete loss, as this is just a recent problem for me. NPC dialog has started showing up in my chat box, and I cannot for the life of me figure out how to disable it.

It seems like it should not show up since I have the box for NPC unticked, but maybe I'm missing something.

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Anyone run into this before? I have found no options in any addons in regards to NPCs either. PC-NA.

Thanks for any advice!
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  • Baertram
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    Disable your addons! And check again.

    The system chat channel (bottom left) in the chat settings e.g. is not there by default but get's added by other addons like pChat/rChat.

    Disable ALL addons and then enable the ones again you got one after another and check when it starts to show the NPC chit-chat in your chat again,

    Maybe you are using pChat/rChat?
    Maybe you did enable chat config sync with any oher char that got NPC chat channel enabled?

    Disable the chat config sync then as this would copy tabs and their chat channel settings from the other char AND overwrite your settings at the chat settings/tabs of this char where you experience the problem (logged in)!
    Only a guess though.
    Edited by Baertram on 4 January 2024 18:46
  • Gandalf_72
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    Hi @Munkfist

    Were you able to remove those NPC chats from the "System" chat box after following @Baertram 's suggestions?

    I only use pChat (no other chat add-ons) and I would also like to remove the NPC dialogues from the "System" chat box.
    I have looked at all the settings in pChat but I have absolutely not been able to find a solution to achieve this.
    If you have succeeded, please @Munkfist share how you did it!!

    Thank you very much!
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  • Quackery
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    I have the same issue, and I have no idea how to get rid of it. Really annoying to have to sift through so much text just to find player messages.
  • Necrotech_Master
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    ive been using pchat for years and i dont see NPC chat in the chat window

    if it is a chat addon, its probably one of the many many settings thats in the addon settings that might not be configurable from the simple chat tab settings menu
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  • katanagirl1
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    I wish there was a way to remove this on console. We didn’t used to have npc dialog in text chat but they added it for some reason.

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  • Gandalf_72
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    Thank you all for your answers!
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  • Baertram
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    >I have the same issue, and I have no idea how to get rid of it. Really annoying to have to sift through so much text just to find player messages.

    If you want to have all on 1 chat tab, you will always have these issues:
    Create yourself a 2nd tab then? Or even more. Configure it to only show the normal say and group messages, and 1 other tab only for guilds?

    You can even use my addon FCO ChatTabBrain to automatically switch the chat tabs upon incoming messages for you then, so that pressing RETURN/ENTER key will just allow you to answer directly in the correct channel.



    And about that NPC talks, it's vanilla UI thing, an nothing that pChat controls!
    So basically you can simply test how to remove it from the chat tabs yourself:
    Right click the chat tab, choose properties and disable the chat channels ypou do not want to see at that tab.
    "System" channel is added by pChat (it was always there but hidden by the game! That's what I said).

    And then checkl if removing system or any other stops the NPC chat at that chat tab

  • virtus753
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    Necrotech_Master wrote: »
    ive been using pchat for years and i dont see NPC chat in the chat window

    if it is a chat addon, its probably one of the many many settings thats in the addon settings that might not be configurable from the simple chat tab settings menu

    Sometimes it’s from an add-on that seems unrelated, too.

    I believe CrutchAlerts defaults to turning these on, but I’ll have to check when I get to the PC.
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