Does anyone even public chat anymore?

[Pcnuttie]

Star Trek Online chatbox used to be a chatterbox a year ago. Now nobody talks at all. I really wonder why? Is it because many players are just rude and refuse to use chatbox or they're noobs at how it works? I have not SEEN one player or anyone chat in the chatbox. It's disappointing! It used to be VERY VERY active the last few years. Now it's just like.. DIED off. No chatter anymore. What's wrong with chatting? Man it's disappointing. it seems like the only way to get advice via gaming is forums and discussion when it could be cut in half time and saved if someone would at least TALK on chatbox. I guess people are scared or stupid and don't know how zone and local channel works. It's disappointing. STO isn't gonna be popular anymore if nobody chats the chatbox anymore. I seriously wish they made Bridge Commander 2 instead of STO.

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Publicado originalmente por Taras:

The Winter Wonderland is probably soaking up the social area right now, ESD has a fair amount though, you might just be catching it at the wrong times of course.

I sometime ago did adjust the chat settings. How can I make sure that the chat settings is right?

[Taras]

There's a little cog in the chat window pane with a smilie face on it, hit that and go to chat settings. Then go through the various channels and see if zone and local are ticked on.

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Publicado originalmente por Taras:

There's a little cog in the chat window pane with a smilie face on it, hit that and go to chat settings. Then go through the various channels and see if zone and local are ticked on.

Yeah they are ticked those boxes but still no chat messages from local or zone. Only my fleet, tell from friends and team chat only works.

[Taras]

Do you have the correct tab selected in your chat window? Seems a daft one but its a possibility it might be showing up in a different chat tab.

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Publicado originalmente por Taras:

Do you have the correct tab selected in your chat window? Seems a daft one but its a possibility it might be showing up in a different chat tab.

I have it on the All chat tab.

[Taras]

That's odd, if I think of anything else I'll say.

[Ricco]

Publicado originalmente por Ighten:

The other big issue is for an MMo the way zones work in STO is you spend so little time in one zone that its impossible to have a chat unless you stop playing..

You need to join a specific channel or find some friends.

Now here is something I can agree with. If someone wants to chat and play the game at the same time it's okay while traveling for long distances or waiting for a PV' que or ...no, I just can't see any need to chat while playing. Except for people who need to recruit for their fleets. They might chat up a new player nicely, and give free items all in an attempt to earn fleet credit :)

[Pocket Scout]

As of right now
The Chat Box is full of people talking about Star Trek, Stargate, and Star Wars being in the same universe.
Doesn't sound dead to me.

[M T]

lol considering the playerbase has dropped by 300% in the last 2 years, yeah.... Figures.