Idea: Chat in Character selector menu.

WeerW3ir

Simple but unbreakable poll. Do we need it? I think it would be a great idea.
Guild, friends, emotes... etc.

Nestor

Sounds good, but you chat with the character, not the account. Which is why your chat is not persistent across character logs. Unless you use an addon that makes local logs. Even then, you have to log in to get back into the chat.

So, good idea, tons of coding.

Alpheu5

No

How would you even instance something like that?

Sounds like a massive coding headache and a feature that offers no real benefit for the effort of development.

Thokri

No

WoW has this and it is terrible. Although new guild system on overall in wow is terrible and people moved to discords.

Solariken

Yes

Yes and during all load screens

Vevvev

Yes

Technically in chat you can enable a person's @name to show up so just putting the chat in the character selector screen is okay. Your @name would just show up indicating you hadn't picked a character yet, but due to technical limitations you'd only really be able to do it in /guild and the /officer chats. When you're not logged in you can't do /say, /emote, /yell, /group, and /zone. ((And any other channels I missed))

Vevvev

Yes

Also whoever is named "name" on these forums I am sorry....

Jnaathra

No

Why?!

IndianaJames7

Yes

would make it easier to coordinate group composition when filling for a group and you may need to switch roles... or allow you to chat with guildies while doing writs and constantly logging on/off without missing half of the convo.

Alpheu5

No

Vevvev wrote: »

Also whoever is named "name" on these forums I am sorry....

They don't exist

WeerW3ir

Yes

Alpheu5 wrote: »

How would you even instance something like that?

Sounds like a massive coding headache and a feature that offers no real benefit for the effort of development.

Nobody said zone chat. xd
basicly chatting with friend, (you can chat between accounts, not just characters), with guild and you could use emotes in main menu. imagine something like that. :thinking:

SpacemanSpiff1

No

Not needed. You shouldn't be spending that much time on the character select screen.

Aznarb

Yes

Solariken wrote: »

Yes and during all load screens

^this^

WeerW3ir

Yes

Aznarb wrote: »

Solariken wrote: »

Yes and during all load screens

^this^

that would be the best. destiny made talk in game with steam friends. eso could make much moar ;D

Edziu

Yes

I wanted this os much long ago when I had so much mates to play long ago, I just could wait with so long load screens and character selection to be able to lurk at chat or still writting with someone
now I dont have this need after so long time where really just few of my mates still is in this game..but still this is good idea after all and not only for me

zaria

Yes

Ida is good, you chat from your account anyway.
However storing chat onto next login has worked just ass well if you want to relog on other character and need to know who needed an tank.

snoozy

No

why would you want to spend so much time in char select that it's necessary to chat? also you are not technically logged in when in char select so...
as for chat during loading screens, that would be nice

Tandor

No

Completely unnecessary given how few seconds a day most people spend selecting a character and hitting "Play".

idk

No

Nestor wrote: »

Sounds good, but you chat with the character, not the account. Which is why your chat is not persistent across character logs. Unless you use an addon that makes local logs. Even then, you have to log in to get back into the chat.

So, good idea, tons of coding.

Pretty much this. Some good ideas are not worth the effort required to implement them.

Edit: As such the poll is not going to sway Zos. They must make several decisions concerning each idea and one is value vs effort.

Grianasteri

Yes

WeerW3ir wrote: »

Simple but unbreakable poll. Do we need it? I think it would be a great idea.
Guild, friends, emotes... etc.

The instant I saw this it was a big yes.

The amount of time it would save if you were able to discuss what is going on, what help folk may need, what content is being run, without having to load a character in only to find you need to go relog to get involved.

Tandor wrote: »

Completely unnecessary given how few seconds a day most people spend selecting a character and hitting "Play".

You are misrepresenting the issue I feel. For many, the entire process of logging in, engaging in chat then relogging to an appropriate character , can take many mintues. Id estimate at least 10 mintues. Its a waste of time.

AlnilamE

Yes

Solariken wrote: »

Yes and during all load screens

That would definitely make load screens better. I don't think it's possible, though.

Foxhearted

As it seems like a hassle to program it, I don't think it's really worth it.

Except when there's an interesting guild chat conversation. 👀

WeerW3ir

Yes

Foxhearted wrote: »

As it seems like a hassle to program it, I don't think it's really worth it.

Except when there's an interesting guild chat conversation. 👀

oh yes. imagine that you just grabbing popcorn. and read it. not even have to log into char ;D