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As Mineral wrote:

So in general, I get your point. But that is not a solution. What is a solution is good admins and squadmembers/leaders that have the patience to teach our new players that having a microphone is a benefit to the game and themselves and don't instantly kick people without microphones.

If devs want this to happen, and let there even be a remote chance of this happening, wounded and dead players must be able to write in chat.
It is hard to revive someone who doesn't talk/has issues communicating on mumble in some situations, it is close to impossible with players with no mic.

I sometimes try during low peak times to have no mics just to show them around, but the second they die, we lose all ability to speak which makes it pretty futile.

^^ +1

I'm for this.

Only if it could be squad chat, dont need dead people spamming.

Yeah I never saw the practical value of not mixing dead and alive chat. Spamming is regulated by the admins anyway.

I really don't think this is needed, especially since we want to encourage people to use their mic.

There should in fact be more penalties for getting killed, like when you kill a civi.

A while ago they implemented a long bleed out time + longer spawn time to encourage people to call medic more. It worked from my experiences, and was awesome, but people were pissed off because getting killed actually was a bad thing, annoying to the player, not just die/respawn.

W.W.

How is this related though? The chat is really not primarily used to communicate instead of mic. Most servers and squad leaders don't even tolerate people without mic.

It won't really hinder using mics as the primary comms method but it will enable you to ask someone to open their squad when you join the server for example.

Rabbit wrote:Only if it could be squad chat, dont need dead people spamming.

this is kinda true

"medic pls"
"medic go west"
"fuck you medic"

open for squad chat only

squad chat only +1

While you are at it, make all chat only available for admins.

Wicca wrote:While you are at it, make all chat only available for admins.

Maybe not always just for admins, it would be better to just make that admin can turn all chat off/on and when it's off then it would be just for admins.

What's the issue with having all chat? There's some chatter from time to time and admins can easily take care of any spammers. No need to limit this

Wicca wrote:While you are at it, make all chat only available for admins.

What about "Hitler Kaput".

We should expand on how to make the players engage in more in game chat. It would be better to be able to toggle chats on and off rather than removing the chat as a whole as propsed by Wicctator.

I think disabling all chat completely would have a negative effect on an already tiny population of players. Part of the charm of PR for some (me) is the occasional banter between friends and rivals in chat. People have friends that they only connect with in game and removing chat would put up a barrier if you happen to not get in their team/squad. Spam can be annoying but its easily policed by admins.

Also consider new players. They can quickly query 100 people in all chat vs the 7 potential d-bags in their squad who don't like new players, and then continue on their way playing the game.