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<b>/say <message></b> is Vicinity.  
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<b>/say <i>message</i></b> is Vicinity.  
  
<b>/o <message></b> is your Org (guild).
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<b>/o <i>message</i></b> is your Org (guild).
  
<b>/t <message></b> is Team (active only when in a team).
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<b>/t <i>message</i></b> is Team (active only when in a team).
  
  
Back before the new chat system, it was a pain to change chat channels; you can change channels by either clicking on the channel in your Friends drop down or by using <b>/ch <channel name></b> like <b>/ch vicinity</b>.  That second method  is even more cumbersome if you have a guild with a name like mine - <b>/ch Devil`s Advocate</b> is a lot to type.  Personally, I still find changing channels with the newer chat system so what I did, before even the new chat, was create some scripts for changing chat channels which I still use to this day:
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Back before the new chat system, it was a pain to change chat channels; you could change channels by either clicking on the channel in your Friends drop down or by using <b>/ch <channel name></b> like <b>/ch vicinity</b> or <b>/ch vi</b> and so on.  That second method  is even more cumbersome if you have a guild with a name like mine - <b>/ch Devil`s Advocate</b> is a lot to type.  Personally, I still find changing channels with the newer chat system a little clumsy so what I did, before even the new chat system existed, was create some scripts for changing chat channels which I still use to this day:
  
  
<b>/da</b> changes to my guild channel using <i>/ch Devil`s Advocate</i>
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<b>/da</b> changes to my guild channel using a script file named <b>da</b> containing <i>/ch Devil`s Advocate</i>
  
<b>/tm</b> goes to Team  using <i>/ch team</i>
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<b>/tm</b> goes to Team  using a script file named <b>tm</b> containing <i>/ch team</i>
  
<b>/vic</b> goes to Vicinity using <i>/ch vicinity</i>
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<b>/vic</b> goes to Vicinity using a script file named <b>vic</b> containing <i>/ch vicinity</i>
  
  
And you can make ones for whatever other channels you wish like shopping or teams.  
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And you can make ones for whatever other channels you wish.  It's handy to have scripts to change to shopping and private channels (like raid bots).
  
  
One thing that I added to these scripts is a message that only I can see confirming which channel I had switched to: <b>/text <message></b>.  So now, the scripts look something like this example:
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One thing that I added to these scripts is a message that only I can see confirming which channel I had switched to: <b>/text <i>message</i></b>.  So now, the scripts look something like this example:
  
  
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The newer chat system displays the name of the chat channel you are in already so you might not find as useful anymore, but I still have it in my scripts and like the confirmation message (but probably more out of laziness).
 
The newer chat system displays the name of the chat channel you are in already so you might not find as useful anymore, but I still have it in my scripts and like the confirmation message (but probably more out of laziness).
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Latest revision as of 02:37, 4 September 2007

Originally posted by Nevver on 9/16/2002


You can send messages to different channels like so:


/say message is Vicinity.

/o message is your Org (guild).

/t message is Team (active only when in a team).


Back before the new chat system, it was a pain to change chat channels; you could change channels by either clicking on the channel in your Friends drop down or by using /ch <channel name> like /ch vicinity or /ch vi and so on. That second method is even more cumbersome if you have a guild with a name like mine - /ch Devil`s Advocate is a lot to type. Personally, I still find changing channels with the newer chat system a little clumsy so what I did, before even the new chat system existed, was create some scripts for changing chat channels which I still use to this day:


/da changes to my guild channel using a script file named da containing /ch Devil`s Advocate

/tm goes to Team using a script file named tm containing /ch team

/vic goes to Vicinity using a script file named vic containing /ch vicinity


And you can make ones for whatever other channels you wish. It's handy to have scripts to change to shopping and private channels (like raid bots).


One thing that I added to these scripts is a message that only I can see confirming which channel I had switched to: /text message. So now, the scripts look something like this example:


/ch Vicinity

/text Vicinity chat


The newer chat system displays the name of the chat channel you are in already so you might not find as useful anymore, but I still have it in my scripts and like the confirmation message (but probably more out of laziness).