Local Chat use

[Shark 0]

As many of you have seen the announcement at the bottom of the local chat, tons of you still continue to ignore it.

Announcement: A friendly reminder, this local chat is intended for in-character purposes only. Including discussions about your characters, role-play posts, topic organization, rp questions, group formation, staff query, and other things of that nature. Out-of-character chats are to be held in our Skype chatroom if you wish to talk to players in real-time, private message if you wish to talk to one person directly, or post in the General Discussionsforum if you want to talk about something that does not involve the role-play. By not adhering to these rules, you will have your local chat access revoked.

Many of you are probably asking yourselves: where can we chat then if we don't want to use skype... well the answer is quite simple.

That's where the Out of Context sections come to play.

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Do you have any idea how much processing memory and storage the local chat actually takes up when people are constantly (spamming) using it, compared to posting in the non-SAO/non-RP section? Not to mention nips the bud where everyone complains "oh I'll never get to the higher levels, it's so unfair", yeah you'll never get to a higher level because local chat isn't a post contributing towards your post count and that equates to your level here.

Reason we recommended Skype was because it uses absolutely none of our resources on the site, it's free, available on a multitude of platforms including Xbox360 and all mobile phones, does not require video or voice chat as you can use it as a text chatting platform, and if you have a personal account we can respect that but you can make more than one Skype account too. Even I have two accounts, one for friends and family, and another for online.

So players, Please use the Local Chat for its intended purpose of staying IC, asking for RP assists, RP preparations, and RP questions.

Failure to obey these simple rules/ guidelines will result in an indefinite ban from the local chat.

Admins/ GMs will report any disobedience seen and chat access will be dealt with accordingly.

This is the first and last warning that is given.