Sadness...

[Victim of Siege]

*smiles* Siege general chat no longer needs the likes of me.

Sure we do, but it is your decision and I will respect it.

p.s. i will be coming in to help chat occasionally to poke you with a stick.

 

[T'Challa]

I can think of several occasions where what he says has been true Freja. <shrugs> Such bull pops up in chat here now and then and gets chat turned off.

I imagine such bull has been one of the nails in the coffins of many closed accounts over the years. How many piles of dog droppings you have to walk around and step over can appear in the backyard before it gets tiresome enough you just stop walking in the backyard?

Bingo!

 

[CorwinWE2]

The Battle Vortex guys was running a Siege IRC too. At that time IRC was easy to set up and I know there was also a anti PK chat, where people could call for help. I'm not sure why it died, maybe UOA map and voice chat took over.

Absolutely, and the beauty of it is that each group could manage their channel how they wanted.We had various guild channels and public channels.

The #SP channel was a bit of a social experiment of mine, in that I realized the quickest way to build up a channel was to empower people with channel control, so I granted "ops" rights very broadly, and then later on we started to assign it by vote in the channel. The catch was that any op could clear the ban list and when done it cleared the entire list. The other catch was that if the ops started fighting each other, one of them would typically get their ops taken away. It was beautiful chaos. At its peak, #SP was one of the top channels on all of Stratics IRC.

I still have a capture of an IRC log from #SP when (community guy at the time) Sannio visited the channel after a UOHOC meeting around P15 time I think? I could post but, I suppose I'd have to clean up some of the language.

 

[kelmo]

*smiles* Corwin... Now that is old school and RP. *hats off to Corwin of WE*

 

[Viscount Goop]

As many of us feared, general chat is getting just like many other shards. One more step toward the average...

Sadly, much of the trash talk comes from Siege regulars. So we will have one less difference to offer.

I am all for the population explosion. I am no longer going to hang out in general chat and see all the work so many of us that stayed and tryed to make Siege cool and different just destroyed. I will stay in help channel for now... That is my only real option. I could spend all my time paging on players that can not follow rules...

I spend enough of my time on that sort of thing... I had wished Siege general chat would remain different. I know now it will not.

I will be in help channel when I play. Or PM me on Stratics. I do not use ICQ.

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Heres is my example...I used to play atlantic but got tired of all the trash talking/insults not based in a RP style and had been to SP once when I first started playing UO and noticed the LACK of this chatter giving me back that feel of a old school RPG & decided it was time for a change. So far all I've had to do is put a couple ppl on my ignore list , not like the +50 ppl on atlantic I had ignored. SP just doesn't do it for the insta-gratification crowd or the players that have 2 of everything and want more. As long as the level of INT in chat stays about the same as it is now I'll have no complaints. (heres something silly I used to do on atlantic to get away from the trash...under chat channels theres "Looking For Group", as you can probably guess, I made my own channel called "Looking For Goop" and that was one way to get a channel w/o the crap. We could do that here if it gets any worse but I think If we just put these ppl on our ignore lists they will get the picture after a while and come around to the civilized side of things or as I hope, they leave SP entirely for something more their speed, like grade school playgrounds or wherever it is these ppl hang out.)
VISCOUNT GOOP

 

[Mithrandir Stormcrow]

See what hapens when I stop ragging. I knew someone would take off from where I stopped. You want to see horrible and fast Gen chat go take a peek at whats being said on ATL. It would make the most hardend pirate blush.

 

[Hattori Hanzo]

I have barely kept up with things due to my job. It appears not much has changed. Now that things are returning to normal, I will be back in game.

 

[Patty Pickaxe]

*waves at Kelmo*

Siege has always excelled in trash talk, except it tool place many on this forum. Is it any real surprise that it moved into the general chat?

Anyway, how do you talk in general chat? I honestly can't remember and I will be logging into Enigma a few times before the account is closed and it would be helpful to know how to speak if I need to.

 

[mikni]

Anyway, how do you talk in general chat? I honestly can't remember and I will be logging into Enigma a few times before the account is closed and it would be helpful to know how to speak if I need to.

Press the comma sign. At least in the classic client.

 

[T R U]

Sounds good Kelmo ! If you'd climb down of your high horse and stop working the anti pk/factions agenda, you'd have more fun in chat!

 

[MANSBETH]

I think its entertaining....

 

[Krystal]

I always liked the trash talk, it made it more fun and entertaining, got the adrenaline going.
IMO, It's gonna happen when their is PvP and we can loot the dead dry... (the part i miss a lot lol)
As long as people didn't bring RL into it, I never saw the harm in it lol