Thread:The Second Age Server/@comment-26949898-20170118005917/@comment-26172435-20170120110630

Roleplay chat should definitely not be seen by anyone. I agree the range for rp chat may have to be increased a little. It initially was 50 and after getting a few comments (a.o. from me), Fish has set it to 80 now. As far as I'm concerned a range of 8 chunks (100 blocks) would be better as that is the range players can see each other and it would seem the most practicable distance to me in case of large scale events. On the other hand, I understand the reasoning to limit the range to 'shouting' distance. Shouting over 80 m is like 'ogre-mating-call' distance, which may be a bit odd.

Your notion that 'roleplay is almost impossible' is bullshit. Having an OOC chat channel with only character names would be stupid and having a global channel without any distinction between ic and ooc communication and calling the server a roleplay server would be even more stupid, in my honest opinion.

Note that character names are visible in rp (in-character) chat and there are various options to roleplay in-character with other characters over larger distances than the range of the local rp channel: send an emissiary or make your character visit the character you wanna communicate with (using the very generous fast travel and tp options the server offers), or to simulate an exchange through raven/pigeon/courier service, simply use /msg indicating your message is IC.