Hi All
I've been beta testing online games for nearly 10 years now, and this is the first i've come across that you have to pay to speak!!!
What idiot came up with that???? I've been playing this game for quite a while now and am about o run out of speakers and having already paid £7 GBP this month (think about it, dark age of camelot - the one before WoW, is only £8 per month).
You need to be able to talk to players... PERIOD! I've used most of mine to help othjer players. and i dont know about anyone else but having to pay for the privalidge to help answer questions is plain stupidity.
When the Noobie filter on the chat came in i though "brill idea, a channel to aid noobies without the cost!" how wrong i was. Whats the point of having a noobie protection channel thingy when noobies will need help from experienced players.
OK spam will be a porblem, but most other games get around this by using a time based system which is what you have in place at the moment.
i today won '1 sopeaker' on the amulet so i now have 5 spoeakers left of my noobie character on server 4. after they have been used this game is going to be very lonely as i cant help anyone and neither can i talk to anyone. And i think when other pplayers realise that the "free forever" means you cant talk to other players then this game will be very quite.
My suggestion, leave the 5/10 second antispam ban on.
allow players to speak freely (subject to bad language filters)
appiont some GM (game masters) who can monitor and have the power to give 5/10/15/30... even 1 day bans for trouble makers (you knwo the ones that constantly break rules).
whoo knows if you can get a good GM system working, why not give gm's powers to take over NPC cities to create events for chests etc or even alliance events... i digress.
Something will have to be done and soo, or you will have to change "free forever but type costs".
Steve:cool:

