Chat

The ability to **chat** with other players is very important to players that like to trade for their items, talk with new people from around the world, and communicate with their guild members.

## Common Sense Rules for Chatting

Do not type in all capital letters as this is commonly taken by most players as YELLING! Use capital letters to emphasize a word in your post, not the entire post itself. If you are under the misconception that chatting in all caps will make your trade offer stand out amongst the rest, you are mistaken. Please do not type in all capital letters!

Do not spam the chat with nonsense even if you are bored.

Please don't beg for free items. We understand- getting started can be difficult. But everyone has to start somewhere. Some players might send you stuff but you are just going to annoy everyone else.

If you have an issue with a player, please take it to whispers or mails. No one else wants to see your drama. If you got scammed, let people know once or twice and then be the bigger person and *move on*.

People commonly will trade in both the general chat and the trade chat. Yes, there is a trade chat. No, people will not stop trading in the general chat. There are more users in general chat than there are in trade chat so a trade is more likely to happen there. You are going to have to get over it.

There are very few options for players that speak languages other than English. If a player or players are speaking in another language, don't be rude and demand they speak in English. Some people don't speak/type well in English and while it is an English language chat, they can't help that their first language isn't represented in the channels. Again, you are going to have to get over it. You can't force someone to speak English if they don't want to.

Never give your login information to *anyone*. *No* game administrator or forum moderator will *ever* ask for this information. Anyone that does is trying to *steal* your stuff. Do not respond to the message and *report* them immediately to support.

## Chat Rooms

When you log in, you will randomly be assigned to an English language general chat room, trade chat room, and to your guild chat if you are in a guild.

Every general chat and trade chat has 5 optional rooms. For the most part, rooms 1 and 2 are going to be the most active in both general and trade chats. You can change rooms by using a *command* in the chat box:

To change general chat rooms, type: /c en #

\*with the # being an actual number 1-5

To change trade chat rooms, type: /ct en #

\*with the # being an actual number 1-5

If you want to see the list of rooms available, you can type /l or /list and you will get a room of all available chat rooms.

## Other Command Prompts

You can view who all is currently online in a specific room by typing: /u or /users If you use this command in the general or trade chat, you will get a list of 100s of players- everyone that is online and in that channel at the time. If you use this command in your guild chat, you will get a list of all of your current guild members online.

If you prefer to chat in a different language, there are a few others available. By replacing 'en' from the above chat room change command, you can change to chats specific to your language choice. Use 'fr' for French, 'de' for German, and 'es' for Spanish. You will leave the English language chat and enter the new chat. No other language-specific chats are currently available.

There are several other options within the command. By typing /help, you will get a list of all the possible things to do with command in the chat rooms.

## Whisper

Another thing to do in chat is to whisper other players. This is like sending mail to the other player except it is only words (no attachments) and it is sent in the chat window. Regular chat text is black. Whisper text is green. This whisper text cannot be seen by any other players other than the ones sending and receiving the whisper.

In order to whisper a player, click their name in the chat window. A list will show up. Find "whisper" and click it. Their name will appear in your dialog box. Start typing. That is all you have to do.

Alternatively, you can type /w [username] and replace [username] with the player's name. That will bring up the same whisper option as if you clicked their name and then clicked "whisper".

You can type /r to reply to the last whisper sent to you.

If you do not pay attention, you can unintentionally reply to a whisper in the actual chat boxes instead. Hopefully if this happens, you were not sharing something private.

## Minimizing the Chat Window

You can minimize the chat window by clicking the *x* in top right corner of the chat window. This will minimize the window to the bottom of your screen. To bring it back up, click the little speech bubble box. If your speech bubble is flashing blue, then someone has said something in either general or trade chats. If it has an exclamation point over it, then someone has said something in guild chat.

## Other Information

When you hover your mouse over the open chat screen, you can view what others have typed. If you move your mouse away from the chat screen, it will become transparent. Move your mouse back to somewhere on the chat screen to make it visible again.

You can copy text in chat. Highlight the text and press Ctrl+C to copy it. You can paste this in a new message, in another chat, a whisper, or in a source outside the game. Be aware of anyone posting links though. They could be posting malicious links that can harm your computer.

At the bottom of the chat box beside the text field, there is a small blue box with white lines. If you click this, it will stop the page from automatically moving down as another player posts to the chat. This gives the ability to scroll back into the previous bit of loaded chat and reread what has been typed. In general and trade chats, you can only scroll back to the point in which you joined the chat room. In guild chats, you can scroll back to see previous conversations (in a grayed text) that happened over the last few hours. Click the little box again to enable auto-scroll again and your chat will resume normal function.

Clicking a player's name in the chat window gives you 4 options: whisper (see above), send mail, send trade offer, and follow/unfollow. Follow and unfollow essentially adds the player to your friends list so that they show up on your friendsmap or if you are already following them, removes them from that friends list and from your friendsmap.