No, they’re not. Relaucnhed client, relogged in as said. Sitting in NPC station, local chat from time to time show some players, continuously showing notifications like I’m jumping from system to system. But I’m just docked in station.
The chat system is probably still old code and no one knows what they’re looking at and probably deleted or overwrote a section with new code that dealt with some chat stability or other function
CCP DEV Blackout are in full effect.
Lack of content made the drifters kidnap CCP DEVs into a big wormhole where they feed them bad sushi and therefore the local now seems drunk.
Please remove LOCAL window for good. Problem solved.
What i liked more on ‘LOCAL’ was, as i’m in this game for 16 years already, to cross sometimes with ‘old contacts’ in EVE and ‘YOLO’ in local.