Dimension Spam
Guild Spam
"WTS" Spam
This has quickly snowballed out of control. It is easily my biggest pet peeve in Rift... and actually really does impact how much I enjoy my time in the game. I'm not overly sensitive either... it's like every 2nd line of chat is WTS/Guild/Trade spam. It's bad... and when someone pushes themselves onto my screens it's usually 3-4 lines of spam too forcing out pertinent general chatter that I am actually interested in reading.
Option 1: "Well just use your ignore, herpaderpa." No. I'm sorry but I play multiple alts and would be CONSTANTLY sitting here micromanaging ignore. That is NOT my idea of a fun time. Not only that, but just because you Dimension/Guild/Trade spam in general chats doesn't necessarily mean that I want to remove whatever chunk of the population from my activities. You probably are an ok person and fine to group with.
Option 2: "Well... duuuurrrr... just turn off your chats!" No. I am not interested in segregating myself and removing the "MMO" portion of this game just because someone has OCD and can't control themselves.
TRION I PROPOSE: I have done some research and apparently there are some things in the GUI that prevents people from taking information from general chats to be able to use it in addons. Since you are steadfast about relinquishing chat information for addon use... why do you not have a better filter system where I can add words myself to a list that just removes the entire chunk of chat from whomeever says it?
For example I want to add "WTS" to a filter list so the following happens:
WITHOUT FILTER:
Bob: Anyone up for some dungeon runs?
OCDguy: WTS [item1] 60plats, [item2] 30 plats, [item3] 70plats,
[item4]100plats,
[item5]20plats
Me: Yeah Bob, add me to the group I'm in!
WITH FILTER:
Bob: Anyone up for some dungeon runs?
Me: Yeah Bob, add me to the group I'm in!
See: the game would NOT add OCDguy to any ignore list... but automatically just not show what he has to say on my screen.
I would also add whatever spam of the month... words like "Anal" I would just automatically queue that in there... and Guild... and progression... and dimension... basically whatever filter list that I control but doesn't use my ignore list....
I would also love for that to be a global setting for ALL of my alts so I don't have to reset it up for each character.
Is something like this in the works, TRION? Thanks for your response.
Please guys... please just don't flame this thread. Thanks.
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