Yellow Text: The Definitive Discussion

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I hear the arguments for and against global OOC, and I think both can make valid points, even if I find one much more compelling than the other. What I don't truly hear is the valid argument against yellow text.

Issues that have been brought up:

- Reveals your location.

Response: Server pop is so low already, it's not like you don't know where everyone is already. I can do a /who all and know prolly where 60-75% of the people I see are at any given time. Sassy and crew are going to be in CT, the other FF are going to be in BB or WFP, Nihilum are in Fear or Guk, the low-mid levels are all in Unrest, etc. Of course if it's a huge issue to people can, we can simply have yellow text not show location, this problem solved.

- People will make troll account names like mycock beats xxxx or w/e

Response: Ban hammer with vengeance / make yellow text require minimum level 10-15 or something.

- People will use it to grief others.

Response: 1) It actually prevents some forms of griefing such as bind camping AFK people because now the server is alerted to it and can mobilize, would citychamp have taken 200+ deaths if nihilum knew it was going on? (lol if they were dong bawses maybe!!! ok sorry wrong thread) but seriously it would help stop that. 2) Sure, some people will do whatever they can to get that pvp kill...... but isn't that the point of a PVP server? 3) The main levels where true "griefing" can occur, the mid-levels, are all a bunch of people trying to avoid PVP at all costs so they can get through the terrible XP grind, and a lot of people at this point are being power leveled by themselves away from PVP anyway at this point.

Yellow text will make the server seem more alive, encourage PVP (right now there is little motivation to chase runners down and what not cuz why bother when they will loot up 2 minutes from now and be on their way?) make forumquest a bit more fun when we can truly see who is winning on the server, etc., etc. Player X claims to be a badass on forums? Let's see what happens when we have yellow text.

At the very least, can't we just give it a two week trial period? Is there really anything to lose on this server at this point? Also, it's pretty clear this server already has it's "niche" population, shouldn't we start catering to that population rather than to the non-existent "purple" pop on this server who have already quit/left and prolly aren't coming back?

Edit: Some have suggested raising level "cap" on yellow text even higher to perhaps 30-35, this would cut down on some of the "griefing" people see worried about at those levels. Others have suggest an "opt-out" or way to ignore the text as well. Both sound cool.