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Old 12-30-2005, 11:45 AM
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Originally Posted by LadyZippyBoingenpretzel
From Wednesday victory thread:

We have discussed the secret chat a few times but not recently. The main problem is that the boxes block gag choices so you can't always see what you team is choosing. This often leads to the wrong choice or none at all when a toon can't see what everyone else is doing.

One solution that we came up with was if you are chatting with someone on your side, use a thought bubble instead. Limiting sf chat to strategy helps a lot., but we have found that most can be handled via speedchat.

Speedchat boxes also cover the gag choices sometimes but they don't seem to block them from view as the secret chat ones do.

Basically after discussing this it was asked that sf chat be kept to a minimum. I love to chat with my friends in battle but we now stick to minimum strategy or speedchat, which we have found to be a lot of fun and does not leave anyone else out of the conversation.

I see now that zman posted, no there is no policy but these are the reasons it can be a problem.
Had a CFO run with lots of speed chat going on on the other side. It did make things difficult from time to time. I totally understand why it was going on, that side had only 3 to start, then one disco'd. But I wanted to post an image of what this looks like. Note that the color selection only applies to the speedchat.

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