Player Features and Ideas Discussion

The new chat system SUCKS. You've made every chat window a lot more awkward to use, but the worst of the new interface design is in the local chat window (you know, the one you always want fast access to if you're doing roaming PvP). Compare:

Old system: minimize the local window to the bottom of the screen, where the title bar shows a constantly updating "local [x]" with the number of people in local. One click un-minimizes the window back to the exact spot where I had it, so it's quick and easy to check who is in local when the number changes.

New system: minimizing it puts it into the general "chat" icon, without even giving it a separate tab like every other chat window. This means that the number of people in local is not visible at all times, and I can't even hover over the icon like with other chat windows, I have to actually move the mouse over to the button and click it to pop up the sub-menu. And of course un-minimizing the window puts it back into the default location, NOT into the location where I had it before I minimized it.

End result: all of the same information is there, but it takes way more clicks and inconvenience to get at it. This is terrible interface design, so please restore the original "minimize" function. Add a second "minimize to sidebar" button if you really want to have this new function.