An unreliable local chat is bad for everyone, pve or pvp. I am sure if I looked I will find things published by CCP stating that local is tool to be used to keep you safe in different situations. Broken local chat has bled into broken corp and fleet chats too.
Not to mention the isolation it brings when you cannot see other people that are in the same system as you. You cannot talk to them, can only interact if you happen to be on the same grid as them or see them docked in the same station as you. How are we expected to make new friends if we cannot talk to them?
I don’t think you use Dotlan. There is absolutely no way to know there are 4 miners out mining in belts. Its too small and doesn’t really show up on the metrics. There isn’t one for rock killing. It would tic on your rats you kill but roid rats aren’t enough.
Chat still sketchy - keep s disconnecting from chat ext - I remember when CCP said, this the last time if chat stops working again, we go back to the old way of the chat client and it been down more times than a prostitute’s knickers @CCP_Convict You may think you fixed it but you have not, role it back it was fine for 13 years!
i am aware that dotan wont show 4 miners. but it does show activity so it is easy to find mining fleets or ratters. let me know when the people that live in a system get something from ccp that shows intruders comging and going
Local (and chat in general) has been buggy on and off since March 2018 when they changed from in-house chat server to amazon cloud chat server. It’s been 30+ months straight of this, sometimes better than others… but always, always the chance for different amounts of toons showing in local to different people.
Holy ■■■■■■■ ■■■■ you people are the single worst developers I have ever seen in my entire career. I would HATE to be anywhere near anything you clowns had anything to do with at this point. I have never seen a service this badly mismanaged and just utterly broken in my entire career. I have literally watched people put user credentials in plain text in their web directory and you make them look like paragons of technical competence. Seriously, holy ■■■■■■■ ■■■■! Get your heads out of your asses and do your damn jobs or shut the damn game down, this is a scam at this point.
Local chat was broken for me again, color tags were not working consistently also. Two characters with the same overview settings; one showed an empire war target tagged correctly, the other did not show him as a war target. No tag in local, and in space, he was not marked with the red flashy background that the other character showed. When local chats have been broken, I have seen these color tags missing from people docked in stations under the Guests tab but never in space.
It seems to have been stable for a couple of days now. Great! For how long? Who knows. Every time they do a fix or an update you just never know what code they step on.