Disable Game Chat: No Diplomacy or Fog Reveals

[jghost7]

I think the OP is suggesting that people will want to do team games without conversing with their teammate (?) and not having a game chat makes this easier to do.

But wouldn't those people presumably want their opponents to be held to the same restriction? And won't some people want to gain an advantage by communicating with their teammates anyway? An actual ban between players would be like Secret Diplomacy, easy to circumvent, impossible to enforce, only more so...

lol, yes, and that is what I said earlier, besides, it would only be an added setting, no new rule would be created for that setting.

[TheForgivenOne]

All this will cause, in my opinion, is people trying harder for Diplomacy.

[northeastern]

I think its a great idea.

[jfktolax]

Team have to be able to talk to each other.

Maybe in games like Assassin or Terminator or Fog of War games where information is at a premium a 'filter' could be used. By filter I mean certain words (like the names of territories) would never show up in text chats, or numbers.

This might have been off on a tangent.

Please don't take the human aspect of verbal warfare out of this game. No talk would take us even further away from the physical board game around the kitchen table we grew up on.

That might have just aged me.

Peace

[Virtuouz]

This is a retarded idea. Fail.

[Bostonguitah]

I'm on board 100% for this. I hate getting jammed midway through the game by someone who feels like they get everyone to attack me simply because I have a bonus region. "That Guy" just ends up giving the game away to some major anyway. Disabling the chat would keep my blood pressure down considerably

[Army of GOD]

This is just going to force more secret diplomacy.

[Jono77]

Gets my vote, I wish there was an option to remove chat.

I've not played a lot on this site but played a lot on others.
Pretty much all my games I've played here have ended up with someone having a paddy and spoiling the game through chat.
Either someone anouncing they'll spoil your game, giving away your army locations or instagating a 3vs1 becuase I'm doing better than they are.

Personally I cannot stand getting the upper hand in a game then having everyone turn on me, it ruins the game, it lacks stratergy.
I'm not interested in alliances, truces and small talk.
Some people might like diplomacy, fine, they can have the option to keep the chat.

Yes comms will still happen via PMs, but if there was a 'disable chat' function I'd use it all the time.

[chapcrap]

Gets my vote, I wish there was an option to remove chat.

Foe everyone you play with.

[Roussallier]

Concise description:
Option when you're creating a game to disable game chat or limit it to a few pre-programmed phrases such as "good luck," "good game"

How this will benefit the site and/or other comments:

• ends the debate if it's okay to reveal fog of war information
• basically it's a "turn off diplomacy" button
• sometimes you get tired of hearing noobs complain that they're under attack

[TheForgivenOne]

Concise description:
Option when you're creating a game to disable game chat or limit it to a few pre-programmed phrases such as "good luck," "good game"

How this will benefit the site and/or other comments:

• ends the debate if it's okay to reveal fog of war information
• basically it's a "turn off diplomacy" button
• sometimes you get tired of hearing noobs complain that they're under attack

This will just cause more people to more than likely use Secret Diplomacy to create Truces.

[chapcrap]

Concise description:
Option when you're creating a game to disable game chat or limit it to a few pre-programmed phrases such as "good luck," "good game"

How this will benefit the site and/or other comments:

• ends the debate if it's okay to reveal fog of war information
• basically it's a "turn off diplomacy" button
• sometimes you get tired of hearing noobs complain that they're under attack

This will just cause more people to more than likely use Secret Diplomacy to create Truces.

Agreed with TFO on this one. There is no reason you have to look at the chat. When I am not playing a team game, I rarely look at the chat.

[TheForgivenOne]

Who is this Seb you speak of?

[chapcrap]

Who is this Seb you speak of?

Err... I said TFO.

[Criticalwinner]

• basically it's a "turn off diplomacy" button
• sometimes you get tired of hearing noobs complain that they're under attack

If you implemented this, you would take away a part of the game that is necessary to some people. Just don't look at chat if your complaining about noobs. No one forces you to read the chat.