Chat: show server, timestamp, nickname, pin, center

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Small suggestions to improve ingame chat.

Server icon
Best way to play in party (with current networking limitations) is looking for someone on the same server.
Small icon for every region could improve random party experience by decent degree.
Could be optional for global/help chats and must have for lfg.

Timestamp
Optional thing to show HH:MM or HH:MM:SS local timestamp on the left side from nickname. Can even use clientside timestamp when message was received, without extra networking.
Maybe it’s just me, but timestamp is valuable. Especially when you answering something outdated in chat, or want to find something.

Nickname
Option to show your own messages in same style with others, instead of “To Global”.
Maybe add slightly different background for visibility.

Pinned chat
Button to pin chat. Pinned chat doesn’t autohide.
This would greatly increase chat experience in snow/sand biomes.
Also nice to read chat without clicking enter every 10 seconds to show it again.

Auto centering
Currently you can’t see chat when Forge / Character / Guide opened.
It could move to center when left panel displayed. Maybe squish a bit and increase height to keep similar chat area if both left and right panels opened.
Missing something interesting in chat isn’t fun. Scrolling back (without timestamps) after forge isn’t fun too.

UPD: Forgot to add next two.

Hide system messages option
“Loot Filter: Disabled / Loot Filter: Enabled” lines every time we press an X. With limited chat buffer isn’t good.
Let us hide this non-important info.

Accessibilty: Show boss phrases in chat
Switchable channel “NPC” where you can read what boss is saying right now.
Sometimes it’s hard to hear what happening (except Admiral Harton lol)

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Timestamp
Optional thing to show HH:MM or HH:MM:SS local timestamp on the left side from nickname. Can even use clientside timestamp when message was received, without extra networking.
Maybe it’s just me, but timestamp is valuable. Especially when you answering something outdated in chat, or want to find something.

I think this should be mandatory for any game that has in-game chat. I mean, it’s 2023 already… I’m usually hesitant to reply to some questions in chat to help someone, just to realize that it has been there for few hours ago already.

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It was in game prior to 0.9 and wasn’t intended to be removed so it is being added back in a future patch.

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If I may add to the list:
Allow us to enable/disable individual channels.
I would like to listen to Help channel in case I could be of assistance but General is simply unbearable so I have to turn off everything.

(If there is a way and I haven’t found it, apologies and please let me know, I don’t use the chat much)

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All of these are good.

For:

I don’t think it’d fit in auto-center with a Forge and Inventory opened (as an example), there’s no room:
https://imgur.com/a/0cKX5we

Instead, just have an option to have chat always on top, perhaps with an opacity setting for when it’s over some other UI element (e.g. Forge).

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