In Game Communication

The game offers several different communication channels for players. Most kingdoms use external tools like discord for their communication, however some newer and more casual kingdoms rely more on in game tools to coordinate. 
== Mail ==
Players can send messages to any other player with an active province in any kingdom. These are private and can only be seen by the sending and receiving player. 
This feature is often used by members of a kingdom's leadership for diplomacy with other kingdoms if they do not know the other kingdom's identity. Where the kingdom's identity is known and for internal communications within a kingdom discord is more often used to communicate. Mail is often used to contact random new players and often to share discord invites. 
=== Mass mail ===
Monarchs have the ability to send out kingdom-wide messages with the click of a button in order to reach all of their kingdom mates at once. As new mail adds a red notification symbol in game. this tends to be used to get the attention of players who may not be able to use external communication tools all the time, e.g. they can't check discord at work. 
== Chat ==
Every kingdom has an IRC chat is integrated into the game and intel bot. Messages that players post in chat can be seen by the rest of their kingdom. This chat window can be integrated into Discord as long as the intel-bot is invited into the kingdom's private Discord channel and messages in the default bot channel are copied to the in game chat if utopiabot is tagged.
= Forums =
Within every kingdom there is a private forum where players can post to start discussions and comment on posts from their team mates. The monarch and stewards have permissions to moderate the forum.
In war, a second forum, the War Forum, is created for the two participating kingdoms to communicate with each other. This can be moderated by either kingdom's Monarch or Steward.
History of communication tools