Player Features and Ideas Discussion

Introduce multiple chat channels to fleets. Let a fleet boss add 2 or 3 additional channels as needed, and assign moderator rights to a member or members of the fleet. Limit access to the channels for fleet members only and have the channels collapse after the fleet is over,.

Why: To add more effective communication to Eve's fleets that are decently secure (limit to fleet members), and easily manageable (moderators are limited to that fleet).

Back story: How many fleets have had to deal with both a fleet channel and a logi channel? Is it annoying seeing an AFK person in that channel from a previous fleet? Capital / super fleets that have cap transfer chains are another example.

If you don't know what he is talking about. just shut your blow hole.

This is a good idea and mumble and teamspeak have nothing to do with it.

Not sure if the idea has a merit. What you want are fleet channels for things like logistics, particular ships and the likes, right? EVE players already use them in the form of permanent dedicated channels every player keeps in their respective Player Channels list in the chat channels list. They can also be moderated easily by assigning proper moderators. The only downside they have is that people "forget" to leave the channels once a fleet is over, which results in clutter and, for instance, difficulties to form a cap chain if no moderator is around to clean the channel up.
On the other hand, if an FC would have to create and assign moderators to these channels anew with every fleet and people couldn't join them on their own from the chat channels list window, it would create a lot more workload for the FC and more effort for the fleet members.

As an alternative to the creation of new channels with every fleet, I'd probably rather like to be able to link existing dedicated, permanent channels easier, read: not in the MOTD which everyone ignores.

@Iain Cariaba
Existing voice coms aren't really a great solution to that. At least in Teamspeak, you'd need to be in different channels and wouldn't be able to follow what the FC does in the main channel. Or you use different TS servers, but then you end up with a lot criss-cross communication and would need to mute and unmute yourself all the time and alt-tab out of the game. No idea how that works on Mumble. The ingame EVE-voice could be a solution to that, but it's rather clunky and not exactly a joy to use. Moreover, you can only use it fleet-wide and not for fleet-external channels.

ooookay then. This already exists just make a chat ch and assign moderators to it

Today i logged into eve after downtime and got jumped by a few of the WTM basilisks "Might i enquire what you are doing in basichat?" because i had forgotten to leave it the night before(when i was flying a basilisk)...

That sort of stuff could easily obliviate the need for this sort of "channel purges"...

@Vikari i realise i might need to be nicer since you gave me my first faction battleship (Woot navythron) way back when, but this idea is flat out not required...

You are spot on, to a point;
The issue is standard users can't see who the moderators are and thus, can't poke them to moderate said channel which presents the real issue.

His talking about a set of temporary channels which are created by forming the fleet, moderated by the Fleet Boss and anyone the boss designates from that point on. I personally envision these channels being dropped once the fleet was over or got kicked automatically once the fleet was over.

Personally speaking, I can see this helping all aspects of fleet combat especially in 0.0 where multiple private channels are required.

Anyone who's flown anything that requires a cap chain (or co-ordination between say triage cycles) can see how this could be beneficial.

Anyone who's flown a Guardian/Basi and joined the correct channel to see one or two special snowflakes who idle in there knows how much of a pain in the ass this is.

+1

great QOL feature