Reduction of "local" chat range and addition of new chat.

[RockoDaTroll2]

Don't burn me if this has been mentioned before, but I am rarely on the forums, or the internet for that matter; except in CoH and for work. Thus, I haven't mined the forums for how many times this has been suggested before.

 

Suggestion: Reduce Local chat range to something like 20 feet and create a new chat called something like "Distant" which picks up the remaining range Local had before.

 

This would allow a lot of the open and private areas 'feel' larger and mitigate *some* of the chat-scroll. Just a thought.

[Sunsette]

I think this is a problem maybe better handled by tweaks to chat balloons. Spatial representation of text works better than attempting to filter chat logs more severely I think. 

[Greycat]

TO me this would just overcomplicate *local* chatting in a group - 20 feet is *not* that far.

 

If you're looking at chat vs broadcast vs team vs supergroup - which, yes, all together can get to be a bit much - filtering out by tabs can help. Or using team, if you've got a specific group you're talking to.

[ninja surprise]

I'd suggest removing "Local" from your chat window and only watching for people's bubbles nearby.

Then keep Broadcast for chats across the zone.