comms get lonely when no one talks, prehaps if the whole galaxy joins together might make the wait to regain energy ect faster :p

Some legions have active comms... could go find one?

This.


Also, a game-wide chat would just turn into a handful of ships #$&*@ at a handful of other ships whilst everybody else watches until bans start flying.

It would be a logistical pain indeed. Thou if all chat bans are permanent and it takes a minimal of say 500 ranks to enter, it should calm down eventually. But maybe I'm just being optimistic about internet people.

A game-wide chat would well and truly kill the forums, I can tell you that much as well.

Could make one on facebook easily enough but it would just be chaos.

Results of game wide chat...



5 minutes or less later:


Repeat ad naseum.

These are the best examples of global chat issues. These could, however, be fixed by chat moderators. The forums are a good example of what happens when you mitigate prevalent problems.