AfterWorld Survival Forum

If there was a chat option while browsing here on the forum, players would 1, be able to chat to each other from distant parts of AW (in effect a global chat)(perhaps devs don't want this) but more specifically, I was thinking that it would be a lot easier to for us players to talk to newly registered players, who either don't have anyone to chat to over in NU or have questions or aren't able to be in the game yet or so on. At every login, your chat would be clear, and it could save only to the last 200 lines and autodelete whenever it goes past that. Pros? Cons?

The Allfather

In forum chat?
That sounds a good idea to me.


Issues

• Abusive chat
  > Resolved by having all chat logged with an abuse reporting feature. Any player found to using this to harass or found to be abusive is banned from game for a period (or permanently for if they have a history of abuse).
  > Probably need a forum moderator
• The game has a built in chat feature. This is limited to players that have done a hand-shake (friend list, society  etc) and requires antennas. Forum chat would violate this.
  > Resolved by realizing that anyone can set up a Chat Server (there are plenty of free ones)

Benefits

• Mentoring
  > A forum role of mentoring could be implemented.
  > The chat could be restricted to this role.
  > Allows newcomers to ask for help even where the mentoring players are not present in-game / in-chat range.