Alliance chat - access for all

I've been reading some other threads regarding this, and some have a valid point I seemed to overlook. From the thread "Alliance Chat Only Officers and Leaders":

That could likely happen, so perhaps the Alliance Leader could be the only one with this option instead of each individual guild leader. But I do feel something needs to be changed, it's simply not fair to assume that every alliance would get out of hand if all members could use alliance chat.

/signed Most Def!

I think it's a bit naive for some to assume that having Alliance Chat implemented in such a static fashion is sufficient for all or most Guilds. The ability to adjust and toggle options for a Chat Channel would provide the most flexiblity and would grant Guilds the ability to customize that Chat Channel to their liking.

/signed

I can see it but i can't use it, it gets annoying.

/never ever signed


10 guilds with 100 ppl ea guild= destruction!

If you check out my suggestion in this post it addresses that. The guild leader has a toggle beside each guild in alliance, with "Receive member chat (off/on), receive officer chat (off/on)" and other options. This allows one guild to set alliance chat on all members, but a guild who finds the chatter too much to limit the incoming from the other guild to just the leader or just the officers. Since each guild sets how it wants to receive and transmit (and I added other things, like guest privileges to guild hall, etc...) you don't have spam issues on a guild level - each simply tweaks it till they are comfortable.

Make it flexible to suit all players - you don't want tons of chat? That's fine. You want full communication? Also doable. You want to extend the guild hall privilege to an entire guild, rather than inviting each member every day if they want to party up? Sure, why not - you are aliies after all. You don't want your online roster shown? Set it to hidden - or leave itt visible and have all others able to see it. There's no limit to haow much this could improve communication and ease making of groups, but implemented as it is it's needlessly restrictive.

/Not Signed
My guild [XoO] has over 400 members, if everyone could use alliance with no moderation, things could get hectic. Maybe the leader of the alliance could have a switch for who to allow it for? That would be the best option imho.

/signed (and im in one of those big guilds)

/signed
why would ANYONE disagree that an option for the guild leader to allow or not allow his members to use the alliance chat would be a good idea

also, i would rather be spammed in alliance chat than in whispers any day, knowing u cant turn off whispers.

/signed...
...once again, if its optional i dont see how its a problem...
and besides, a guild should have enough officers to be able to take care of the problem, should there be one.
i got on guildwars at 10:00 AM this morning, when i had 4 officers online and played till i left for work, the lowest officer count we had today was 0, but i was online, half an hour later we had 2 officers on.
after i got back from work/bar at about 11:00 PM and have been online for 3 hours; its 2:30 AM and we still have 3 officers online, and myself (3/9 officers). and chances are, 1-2 of those officers will be on till 4-6 AM...this schedual is reapeatd daily.
any compitent guild leader should take it upon himself to notice whose active at different times, and promote accordingly, so that theres always an officer on, or the leader themsleves.
they should also make it clear that abuse of guild features is frowned upon.
the option to allow it should be there...if a guild cannot regulate it, they can turn it off, but those of us who know how to run our guilds should not be punished.

Obviously the title of this thread is "Alliance chat - access for all" and thus many other signatories are quickly replying with "/unsigned". That should be clear enough why a different thread was posted.

To get good /signs we need a clear thread and a subject so people will read first before replying with /unsign or /sign. Its human nature to react after reading the "subject" line of the thread and therefore in this case, they /unsign quickly. I'll do the same.

Just read a few posts above and people were saying "why would anyone /unsign an option for leaders to choose who gets access?" -type of comments.

my two cents.

so /unsign for me for "Access for all".

I think the idea makes sense. 400 members in a Guild isn't so much. Maybe it should be down to the individuals whether they want to see officer chat or grunts chat as well.

I'd certainly like an option to see who on the alliance is online.

Tals

My suggestion...Please give us:

An Alliance channel that can be used by ANY alliance member.

AND

An Officer channel that can only be used by officers (only visible to officers as well?)

This solves all issues, I think. Both channels can be disabled in case of huge guilds/spam but could also allow free communication among alliance mates.

after a week of not being able to post in alliance chat when i'm up for some action most definitely /signed

/signed - especially Carinae Dragonblood's idea

/signed because there have been times where there was no guild leader/officer on in my guild.

/signed.

No officers sometimes are on. Not being able to participate is frustrating.

If the toggle will make it more widely accepted, then fine. Otherwise, just give it to us all. Not all of us have 4 x 60 member guilds. Some of us are in much smaller alliances. Spam will almost certainly not be an issue for mine.

Besides, the turnaround argument to the "your guild leader should promote more officers" is "your guild leaders should be able to control any spamming guildies."

bringing the conversation over from the new thread.. that just got booted!

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amen to that. it's been almost a month now that i've been able to use the search command properly... maybe i need to stay up late just so i can use it right. and the google search is never very helpful... enough with the use the search command comments until it's actually up to speed itself.
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/signed this would be a simple solution. I'd actually go as far as saying not only toggle it for members or leaders, but maybe even for each specific member. Say you have a member you just dont want f-ing up your relationship with your alliance, cause he got a track record of blowing up, then you have the option to turn his alliance chat off, and leave the rest on.

/signed....

let the officers detemine who can talk .... like toggle each member alliance privillage :P

really this thing is needed and im talking as an officer not a member... it is very needed...

/signed

Either leaders or officers... think: when all leaders agree all members of the alliance may chat, but if one leader disagrees it would not be.

/notsigned regarding Officers deciding on chat.

Lets go for Alliance officers chat and a general alliance. Those who don't want to hear alliance chitter chatter can turn it off and still hear their beloved officers talk

Tals