ALifeOfMisery Posted November 8, 2018 Share Posted November 8, 2018 Once RDO has been released we will, thankfully, find our characters in a time and place where mobile phones, email, text messages and almost all forms of instant communication have yet to be invented. Hopefully this will mean the days of being endlessly harassed by NPCs are over. However, it does leave the question of how players will communicate with one another? Obviously being in a party chat or on public mic will be an option, as will both platforms messaging services alongside 3rd party services such as discord. But, will RDO have in game text based messaging? If so, how could it be implemented? Could it be implemented, be practical and still remain in keeping with the period of time in which the game is set? Lonely-Martin, DentureDynamite and IamCourtney 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IamCourtney Posted November 8, 2018 Share Posted November 8, 2018 I suppose we could send mail and telegrams... maybe even have NPC couriers who actually track you down and deliver them! K3nil, R3CON, ALifeOfMisery and 2 others 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gallows Posted November 8, 2018 Share Posted November 8, 2018 52 minutes ago, IamCourtney said: I suppose we could send mail and telegrams... maybe even have NPC couriers who actually track you down and deliver them! Proximity chat would be good. Display Name, Covid 19, CrimsonFolo and 7 others 10 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lonely-Martin Posted November 8, 2018 Share Posted November 8, 2018 I'd like it to be a 'within the area' approach myself. Aside party chats and maybe friends on ya list bring clear to us each in session. If 2 guys are having a bit of banter up north while I'm in Saint Denis. Makes little sense I hear it. So glad mobiles aren't a thing. A little pop up telling me I got mail is all good, easily ignored but won't interfere with gameplay when in a tight spot. ALifeOfMisery, kenmy13999, IamCourtney and 1 other 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ALifeOfMisery Posted November 8, 2018 Author Share Posted November 8, 2018 2 hours ago, IamCourtney said: I suppose we could send mail and telegrams... maybe even have NPC couriers who actually track you down and deliver them! I'd actually enjoy being tracked down by a courier delivering a "1v1 dUaL", "FkN P$$y" and of course that favourite insult from the Old West "Lzzzzz" in telegram form. 1 hour ago, Gallows said: Proximity chat would be good. 1 hour ago, Lonely-Martin said: I'd like it to be a 'within the area' approach myself. Aside party chats and maybe friends on ya list bring clear to us each in session. If 2 guys are having a bit of banter up north while I'm in Saint Denis. Makes little sense I hear it. So glad mobiles aren't a thing. A little pop up telling me I got mail is all good, easily ignored but won't interfere with gameplay when in a tight spot. Yeah, proximity chat would be much better than lobby wide voice chat. Display Name, Lonely-Martin, IamCourtney and 4 others 7 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Slonitram Posted November 8, 2018 Share Posted November 8, 2018 (edited) Proximity chat would be far better than lobby wide chat. I guess text based messaging in-game would be done by mail that you have to pick up at the Post Office. Imo, having a courier tracking you down everytime someone sends mail to you would get pretty annoying. Edited November 8, 2018 by TheSadisticOwl MostlyPonies, ALifeOfMisery, R3CON and 1 other 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CrimsonFolo Posted November 8, 2018 Share Posted November 8, 2018 Yea proximity chat would be the best fit and having messages being sent by mail would be good and immersive too. ALifeOfMisery 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shadowfennekin Posted November 9, 2018 Share Posted November 9, 2018 "You've received a letter from a courier pigeon" "Buy a car! - Agent Archer" "You're ignoring me, play my Adversary modes! - Guido" In a better world though, you can just pick up mail from the post office like in SP. It'd just get annoying if somebody kept mailing you letters and a courier brought them to you, just for you to read "Money pls" They better charge you per letter you send to a player to discourage that kind of behavior DentureDynamite, ALifeOfMisery and MostlyPonies 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DentureDynamite Posted November 13, 2018 Share Posted November 13, 2018 (edited) ^^ lol I like the "Guido" Bay Watch reference there. The only downside of using proximity-based voice chat is that you potentially reveal that you're within a certain area of the map. Easy to avoid if you just don't talk or use text-based chat. Edited November 13, 2018 by DentureDynamite Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Revoemag Posted November 14, 2018 Share Posted November 14, 2018 Text chat like in gtao pc, or better systems like in most rpgmmos . Text chat in my opinion is equal to talking, so it doesn't need to be "of the era " .. if anything it could equate to sign language.. But text chat needs to be in the game. Without it in gtao ps4 was difficult to group with random people, and being in a public voice chat is super toxic DentureDynamite and IamCourtney 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AdmiralJT Posted November 14, 2018 Share Posted November 14, 2018 On 11/8/2018 at 8:40 AM, IamCourtney said: NPC couriers who actually track you down and deliver them! Something like The Pony Express would be cool. They probably shouldn't deliver mail and messages to you in the mountains somewhere, but they could easily deliver them to your camp, or last known whereabouts. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BZXC32 Posted November 14, 2018 Share Posted November 14, 2018 Hahaha, long john teabags great great great grandfather, spamming my mailbox by the station, which i will never empty, of course. Maybe he will use smoke signals.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IamCourtney Posted November 15, 2018 Share Posted November 15, 2018 Long JOHN Teabag JOHN Marston Possible connection? Maybe LJT (Lester) is a distant descendant? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KingpinRCR Posted November 15, 2018 Share Posted November 15, 2018 I bet letters will magically appear in your pocket, accompanied with a pigeon sound. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
White Shark Posted November 16, 2018 Share Posted November 16, 2018 Proximity chat would be best of all. And no instant messages or "letters". Messages sent get delivered to the post office, and the icon becomes highlighted on the map if you have letters to be read WHICH you can choose to ignore. For the love of God, allow us to ignore them, R*!! Otherwise that damn post office is gonna find itself on fire. DentureDynamite 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DentureDynamite Posted November 19, 2018 Share Posted November 19, 2018 On 11/15/2018 at 2:10 PM, KingpinRCR said: I bet letters will magically appear in your pocket, accompanied with a pigeon sound. ...and a white splat on your hat--because: Rockstar. lol KingpinRCR and ALifeOfMisery 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Smokewood Posted November 19, 2018 Share Posted November 19, 2018 Proximity only, including voice chat in game. Just like in chapter 1, Arthur could barely hear Micha and had to rely on Dutch to relay the message just 2 horses in front of him. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
