with the advent of the fractals dungeon in lion’s arch, lion’s arch map chat has become nothing, now, but “LFG X fractals” or assorted such requests.
now, sometimes i’ve found LA map chat a bit annoying; people congregated there to have multitudinous discussions on everything from gameplay to politics and so on. but i also enjoyed being able to find that player who was totally lost, confused, befuddled, and didn’t know what was going on because they were new to the game.
with map chat exploding with nothing but fractals talk, i started wondering, “how can they fix this so people can actually begin, AGAIN, building a community?” chat, discussion, etc, all enables community-building, especially when we’re all on our home servers.
there are two things i can think of — one of which will also result in less lag related to high populations.
1) because the consortium is hosting the fractals experience, i believe there is room for them to branch out and include portals in each race’s home city. i may’ve misunderstood what i gleaned from this weekend’s, launch, but this IS a consortium deal, isn’t it? this would spread the populations back around to the major cities, as well as lightning the conversational load. another possibility, of course, is the dungeon finder … either would work to some extent
2) create a chat channel that is geared specifically toward the lfg. i think this needs to be a chat channel that is created and presented by you guys; it’ll be up to us, the players, to redirect people who don’t read your postings to direct people toward this chat channel, but it will serve to allow people to take part in map chat without having to endure the constant stream of “lfg!” also, make this lfg channel world-wide, and not dependent on being in any one area. if people get a group together for this, great. a quick trip through the mists to LA, or their home city if you allow the consortium to branch out, won’t take a lot of time.
i’d love to see /map get cleaned up, and made into something that’s useful to the community for more than just “lfg!”. anyone else got any ideas on how to improve this?