When it came to side chat in the mod I always had a love/hate relationship with it, in one hand I love how it gave you the ability and encouraged you to interact with everyone on the server and in the other hand, I hated how it didn't quite make sense and could easily be abused by anyone, but I think I have an idea for a nice middle ground where it doesn't take away the ability to communicate across long distances while making you work for it
The Preset Idea- Imagine if there were preset places you go just to talk to others, the people on the receiving end would have to be at one of these various other preset locations scattered around the map in order to both receive and respond to the message, unlike walkie talkies these broadcasting systems have a much larger range in order to communicate with each other, but can be picked up and responded to by someone with a walkie talkie if they are close enough. For example, take this very, very, very rough idea of a map with the possible locations, and lets say your in cherno talking to someone in elektro, anyone one that has a walkie talkie and is within 500m (roughly maximum range) of the broadcast source, has the ability to responded
The Random Idea- Same rules apply from above but instead of preset locations these broadcasting stations are spawned randomly around the map, similar to heli crashes. Possible design of these locations.
Range- This is something that I wanted to leave up for discussion but personally I think it would nice to have the range only work in the region its located in, for example south coast can only talk to south coast while east coast can only talk to east coast and so on.....but at the same time there are large broadcasters located somewhere in the middle of the map that can talk to all.......but now I'm just blabbering
So that's my idea let me know what you guys think is this something that you would be interested in? Lets try and have a clean and civilized discussion about this, lets talk about a subject that I believe this game and community can really benefit from....."communication among each other"
