Suggestion Proving Grounds Quick Chat

[FroggyFruit1357]

Ever since the addition of Proving Grounds quick chat, I've received more toxicity from other players than beforehand. In my personal opinion, the Loka public chat is more toxic than pg open chat after a big fight or especially after a termination. The main reasons why I would like public chat readded alongside quick chat are:

• Better communication for towns and alliances
• Bring PG back to the chill space it was before the QC addition
• Prevent bad player relations due to Rocket League like chats (eg: What a Save! when it really was not a good save)

I understand the issue with public chat in proving grounds. I really do. It can get very toxic before a fight and people will most likely say things they wouldn't normally. This could easily be solved through a chat filter. There are plenty of these pre-written and are not hard to find.

I do sometimes like saying Go Forth! After completely demolishing someone so I suggest that we keep quick chats alongside public chat. /ignore does indeed work in pg and people should utilize it as they would on the live server.

I would also suggest a toggle for chat in PG, either to disable only public chat or disable quick and public chat.

I asked a few players their opinions on quick chat.

• Teyu - "No one took pg seriously other than a few handfuls of people and they are able to /ignore and even turn off chat on Minecraft. a good idea would be a /toggle where u can see chat and where u cant see chat"
• EpikNyan - "I can't talk normally in pg when there's only a few of us - like, just add /ignore lol"
• TryH4rdd - "it makes the chat more toxic"
• Unallowed - "less freedom to say stuff and I can't message someone when you want to say something to them and don't feel like saying it in VC"
• LostProperty - "I can't DM people"
• lilfros - "I can't call someone a lagger"
• Nabsin - "i cant pm people .w. also there's no "owo" or "uwu"
• Baes20 - "generally more toxic than regular chat and the inability to communicate"
• Djscales101 - "I would rather someone tell me to kms then start the car"

I remember Skuhoo saying "I can't tell anyone to just let me 1v1" while getting swarmed in pg.

We can see from Wolf Force, Equinox and Covenant that the majority of the community dislikes quick chats and would like to see public chat re-added. I think that quick chats are a very cool feature to quickly communicate with someone but public chat is necessary to have for conquest reasons. Please keep this thread open for other player opinions that I didn't put in here. I've included a poll above to vote on.

 

[Skuhoo]

Quick chat wasn't added to stop toxicity as being "toxic" isn't against the rules. It was added to stop people from constantly breaking chat rules with slurs and harassment outside of staffs' eyes.

Players couldn't behave themselves and ruined it for everyone else. Blame them.

 

[FroggyFruit1357]

This could easily be solved through a chat filter

People have said plenty of slurs in normal public chat and we're still able to talk freely. Nothing is stopping someone from getting on at a bad hour for staff and using slurs in public chat. Same with PG.

 

[Bob_the_BuiIder]

Can't we just link PG chat to the main server for moderation purposes?

 

[Sokou]

If slurs are the issue then surely a chat filter could help that issue and if people bypass that then more serious punishments could be dealt.

 

[TheFreshLemon]

+1 If anyone took offense or even cared about what people said they'd screenshot it and report it. PG was a place to chill and pvp, and now the people who don't use mics can't communicate.