Remove the World Chat...

[500KG]

Hey Devs,

I love this game but have absolutely no idea why there is a world chat invovled. It completely kills the immersion of anything survival and just makes the whole experience tacky (in my opinion).

I'll give you an example:
I was starving, desperate to survive the wilderness after being beaten half to death from a random dino, I eventually barely managed to scrape together the materials for a small torch of light to help with the freezing cold and hoped for daylight to come soon..

However, while trying to survive in the darkness, giant yellow text was appearing at the top left side of my vision and it was so blinding that I couldn't help but notice it. It was a bunch of people talking about motorcycles.. I can't even turn this ♥♥♥♥ off.. I can auto-hide it which does nothing. Why is this even in a surivial game?

I tried a few servers and it's just the big tribes kissing eachothers asses on group chat (even on a PvP server!) as they don't want to lose their precious bases.. this is not minecraft!

[EightSeven6]

turn off chat auto pop up...

[mayhem]

Originally posted by EndR20:

turn off chat auto pop up...

This is what you want. This is a setting in your options menu, then you never have to see the global chat again. You can still use the \ key to use the auto-hide function just in case you want to see what's going on in global chat.

[500KG]

Its cool that I can turn it off but the people using the chat are ruining the experience for everybody (in my opinion). We're supposed to be in tribes of cavemen and with that we can all somehow telepathically talk about real life, it just makes everybody meta game which is just a weird concept. It's makes meeting others tribes pointless and interactions meaningless.

I would love to randomly discover a tribe and speak with them, not see them on chat all the time.

[Shortan Bald]

It sounds like you really want singleplayer or a private friends only server.

[5tr4nGe]

Originally posted by Awesome:

Its cool that I can turn it off but the people using the chat are ruining the experience for everybody (in my opinion). We're supposed to be in tribes of cavemen and with that we can all somehow telepathically talk about real life, it just makes everybody meta game which is just a weird concept. It's makes meeting others tribes pointless and interactions meaningless.

I would love to randomly discover a tribe and speak with them, not see them on chat all the time.

Oh shut up.
1) it doesn't ruin the experience
2) we are NOT cavemen, this is NOT earth, i'd have thought the ginat floating obelisks would have given that away, or creatures that lived literally millions of years apart suddenly living at the same time. However it seems i literally have to tell you This. Is. Not. Earth. We. Are. Not. Cavemen.
3) actually it makes interactions easier, and it makes trading (don't worry, that's something you'll be doing in time) so much easier, seeing as people can advertise/search for stuff without getting killed by the first person they approach.


I wish people would stop ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ complaining about game features...
Last night my tribe got told we were "stealing dinos" by claiming them when the claim timer was up... By someone who's been seen by multiple people stealing eggs, but that's a rant for another time.

[500KG]

I'm trying to help them improve their game overall and give tribes purpose.
For example, thanks to chat:
I know who the biggest tribes on the map are
I know which location they are in, what they are doing now
I can just ask to be in a huge tribe on the global map and I will get in (just have for test)

This removes the need for:
Actual in game conversation
Strategic Building
Real exploration of the island
Tribal Diplomacy
Any real threat from other players (If I got attacked I will just tell everybody and get retribution from bigger fish)

So what you have is a bunch of huge tribes that just talk on chat as they alreeady have huge castles with nothing to do but kiss ass and not go to war. It's just boring and pointless!

[500KG]

"Oh shut up." - Stopped reading here, go be a ♥♥♥♥ elsewhere, this is my thread.

[Pantastic]

Try and find a server that has global chat turned off? I'm sure they exist.

[EightSeven6]

Make a server with the setting for the global chat off and play with friends man, not many people like your idea, but id DOES add a bit to the game

[5tr4nGe]

Originally posted by Awesome:

"Oh shut up." - Stopped reading here, go be a ♥♥♥♥ elsewhere, this is my thread.

This is a thread on a public forum.
I wasn't being a ♥♥♥♥, i was debating you.
Now, respond to my points, or consider the fact that i've won. I can reply to all of your points easily.

Originally posted by Awesome:

I'm trying to help them improve their game overall and give tribes purpose.
For example, thanks to chat:
I know who the biggest tribes on the map are
I know which location they are in, what they are doing now
I can just ask to be in a huge tribe on the global map and I will get in (just have for test)

This removes the need for:
Actual in game conversation
Strategic Building
Real exploration of the island
Tribal Diplomacy
Any real threat from other players (If I got attacked I will just tell everybody and get retribution from bigger fish)

So what you have is a bunch of huge tribes that just talk on chat as they alreeady have huge castles with nothing to do but kiss ass and not go to war. It's just boring and pointless!

-actual in game conversation still VERY much happens, you just don't hear it because you're never close enough, plus tribes will be in TS, or in a skype group call.

-strategic building, yeah, you try logging off in a thatch hut and see just what happens to you.

-real exploration of the island, sure, you go tame a direwolf/rex/giga/argent on the southern shores only, come back to me once you've done it. Exploration is a later game thing, and seeing as you've got a private profile i can only assume you have sub 10 hrs in game, and have NO right to complain about a feature.

-tribal diplomacy, yeah, it's not like the chat isn't used to arrange trades/rally other tribes/generally make yourself known, which in turn makes you less likely to be raided

-yep, you got me, no one EVER raids on pvp, especially not the alpha tribes. NEVER ever happens. /s
It does NOT remove the threat from other tribes, it only means if you're a lil baby when you DO get raided, you can cry in global and ask for help getting revenge. That is ALL it means, which also ties into how the chat encourages diplomacy.

[edit: fixed typo]

[500KG]

"I wasn't being a ♥♥♥♥, i was debating you. " - Stopped reading here. I'm not intersted in anything you have to say, you are clearly a troll. Bye.

[EightSeven6]

Originally posted by Awesome:

"I wasn't being a ♥♥♥♥, i was debating you. " - Stopped reading here. I'm not intersted in anything you have to say, you are clearly a troll. Bye.

Youre kinda being antisocial tbh...he was sort of ,,agressive,, but i mean..not too much..

[5tr4nGe]

Originally posted by EndR20:

Originally posted by Awesome:

"I wasn't being a ♥♥♥♥, i was debating you. " - Stopped reading here. I'm not intersted in anything you have to say, you are clearly a troll. Bye.

Youre kinda being antisocial tbh...he was sort of ,,agressive,, but i mean..not too much..

I will admit, i was slightly aggresive, but thats because every single day there is someone in here ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ about some game mechanic that's been around for ages, and most people (everyone except them) has no problem with.
OP, i apologise for my aggresion towards you.

[500KG]

Originally posted by mayhem:

Originally posted by EndR20:

turn off chat auto pop up...

This is what you want. This is a setting in your options menu, then you never have to see the global chat again. You can still use the \ key to use the auto-hide function just in case you want to see what's going on in global chat.

Thanks for this, I disabled the 'Chat' feature in the settings but it still pops up when somebody says something for some reason. When I hit the '\' key it says 'auto chat disabled' but it still pops up. Is there a way to completely disable it?

Originally posted by EndR20:

Make a server with the setting for the global chat off and play with friends man, not many people like your idea, but id DOES add a bit to the game

Figured this might be the case ^^ Maybe i'm after some kind of RP server, do you know if any of them exist or has anybody shown interest in such? I may make one..

Originally posted by Asharad:

It sounds like you really want singleplayer or a private friends only server.

Ha, more than likely. I really like the idea of PvP with strangers but just seeing people from one side of the island talk to others on the other side publicly just seems weird as they shouldn't know eachother really. They build relationships via chat and then wont attack in game, which seems like metagaming to me and thus takes away the immersion of a tribal simulator.

[500KG]

Originally posted by stranGe:

Originally posted by EndR20:

Youre kinda being antisocial tbh...he was sort of ,,agressive,, but i mean..not too much..

I will admit, i was slightly aggresive, but thats because every single day there is someone in here ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ about some game mechanic that's been around for ages, and most people (everyone except them) has no problem with.
OP, i apologise for my aggresion towards you.

That's ok, i'm sorry too. I'm angry because I want to get into the game so bad but my immersion is being hit hard by this chat box. Such a small thing really took away the experience for me.