proximity chat

(I gave a more serious reply in another thread)

I don't want proximity chat for people like the OP. I need that sort of person to have to type in open chat so that it ends up in my logs, so I can screenshot it and submit it to ScrubQuotes.

Anything less is compromising my enjoyment of the game.

I am against unrestricted proximity chat for one extremely important reason. Moderating unrestricted prox chat would be a nightmare AND a waste of gm time.

1. You have to waste a bunch of time trawling through meaningless information to find the offending section.
1a. Unless you are recording, which just puts poorer players at a disadvantage for being handled equitably.

2. If I want to call someone out for being a jack ass I want to be able to screenshot that and put it on some suitable part of the forum.
2a.No one is going to click your youtube link Karen. But they WILL have to look at your photo if they are looking at the thread.

3. Unrestricted prox chat therefore limits social shame as a motivating driver which is over all a recipe for really dumb underlying toxicity. Guess who has to spend even more on moderation or has an overwhelmed moderator que line as a result?

Intrepid is a small gaming company who has promised us active gms. This is an amazing boon for the community. Unrestricted proximity chat would squander this expense for ultimately minor social benefits better resolved via other mechanisms.

So your assertion is that you wish for proximity chat because you want Ashes to work as a social game, but the primary thing you intend to actually use it for is relentlessly taunting the people you plan to grief? You understand that "the social aspect of the game" disintegrates pretty quickly when people are bombarded with constant toxicity, right?

I just can't fathom how you're expecting to get what you want here. Players will have a few run-ins with people like you, conclude proximity chat to be a worthless toxic cesspit, then quietly disable it and forget it ever existed. And you'll be left alone shouting into the void.

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