How do you communicate with players at the nexus?

[King Crimson]

Is there a text chat? I always play single player but I have entered a multiplayer game and am really enjoying it. I received a msg to join a player in a game. I accepted, but I could not communicate with the player so I was not sure what we were up to. I was unprepared. Checked settings and guides but can't seem to find anything. Can someone please help?

[Darth Cervantes]

press enter on the keyboard and a chat box comes up.
I don't find folks very chatty in this game though. Everytime I've asked something I get ignored but I do see my chat and other peoples chats.

[SteveB]

Typically* just pressing the ENTER key on your keyboard opens the text chat line in the game. You'll see a single-line text-entry window open at the left of your screen.

Check to see that you have Multiplayer enabled in your settings. It is NOT necessary to enable PvP for this to work. If you go to the ESC menu and the DISCOVERIES page, you should see a message at lower left telling you whether online discovery services are available. It will be in green or red text, indicating the obvious YES or NO state.

This feature is not without its quirks. I have always had trouble addressing players directly using the in-game command to do so. It always tells me that the player is not found, even though they are right in front of me. I can still address them without issue in the Local mode where it broadcasts to everyone in the same "system" and in the group mode as well.

* unless you have changed the setting. This is possible, even inadvertently.

[Wile E Coyote, Super Genius]

In the Anomaly sometimes the text are in xxxx with a box in each x. And sometimes they're in another language.

[SteveB]

Originally posted by Wile E Coyote, Super Genius:

In the Anomaly sometimes the text are in xxxx with a box in each x. And sometimes they're in another language.

That has been an interesting thing to me in this game too. I realize that's a character-set display "thing" (that's a technical term ) but sometimes when I tell them that all I can see is those characters rather than text, their next communication is in readable text.

[King Crimson]

Originally posted by Darth Cervantes:

press enter on the keyboard and a chat box comes up.
I don't find folks very chatty in this game though. Everytime I've asked something I get ignored but I do see my chat and other peoples chats.

Duh. Simple as that. THANKYOU!!

People are giving me stuff so I just want the opportunity to say thanks.

[SteveB]

Originally posted by King Crimson:

Originally posted by Darth Cervantes:

press enter on the keyboard and a chat box comes up.
I don't find folks very chatty in this game though. Everytime I've asked something I get ignored but I do see my chat and other peoples chats.

Duh. Simple as that. THANKYOU!!

People are giving me stuff so I just want the opportunity to say thanks.

Ninja'd.
GREAT!
After posting, I was worried that my suggestions were too obvious. Enjoy!

I find that sometimes players are more responsive than other times. I believe that it's pretty easy to miss messages, for example if a player is "busy" they simply might not notice chats when they become un-busy.