121998-rp-channel

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			I noticed there's a chat option for turning on and off RP chat.  How does one do this?  It seems like /say is visible by everyone.  I'm confused.  Thanks!	
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Basically, this is just a filter for chat channels to include or exclude RP chat (or non-RP chat for that matter).
 
If you send a message starting with the {*} prefix it will be counted as RP chat and only people viewing that will see it.
 
From my experience, this is seldomly used though addons such as Killroy support it (note that Killroy is still undergoing updates to work properly with the latest drop).
 
For more information, please see this support article: https://support.wildstar-online.com/entries/102795726-How-to-use-the-Roleplay-Text-Options	
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As Lianora said, it's essentially a way of making your own chat silent to anyone who changed their chat options from the default to enabling "RP chat", denoted by the "*" prefix. That way, if you're a roleplayer you can talk in-character and have your discussion be invisible to anyone who hasn't deliberately set their options to enable them to see it.
 
Very few RPers that I know use it at all--and generally when they do, they find that there's at least some other RPers who never knew that they had to set their own options to enable them to see other people RPing. This makes it rather difficult to actually make use of it effectively even among those who are inclined to do so.
 
I'm not sure what the intent of it was, really. It's not much of an anti-griefing tool, since griefers can set their options to see it just as easily as RPers can. And at least a few roleplayers don't use it because they take the perspective that they shouldn't have to hide their roleplaying in a roleplaying game--and I can see their point.	
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			I have seen it used exactly zero times. It's a weird "Roleplayers, come hide here!" button that, to protect them from trolls, relies on people not knowing about it or being too lazy to toggle it on. It's much more efficient to just /ignore any trolls that appear instead.	
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I added it into KiruBox as an option a couple months ago but I don't know that it actually benefitted anyone.
 
It gives your text that lovely italics quality but other than that, yeh, it's just to hide your evil RP text.	
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