Multiline Chat Posting - Blue Tracker

#0 - Oct. 21, 2007, 6:04 p.m.

Dear Panda

Sometime between Thursday and Sunday it seems there was a hotfix of some kind applied that stopped the ability to post multiline chat to a channel. For example a macro like this:

/9 I want to be able to send this
/9 and this
/9 and also this
/9 with this too

Now I recieve a message saying im not able to send messages to the channel after the first line.

The reason I want to do this is I am the healing officer for my raid, I assign heal targets and strategies, being unable to post this to our healing channel means I need to post it to /raid (which is immune to this change) which means im telling 25 people something that only ~7 need to know, this increases spam and is generally annoying.

Now I guess this was changed to try to combat goldspam, and im glad you are trying to combat the plague of RMT advertisers, however, Thursday I was happily posting to healerchat, all was well, and the next raid comes round on Sunday and im suddenly unable to, as are any of the other people who are trying to post setups/macros. However the real problem is, this hasnt affected the goldspammers at all, and it has affected the normal player. If the hotfix had worked and actually curtailed the mass multiline spam of goldsellers why are they still doing it?

So essentially im asking, why was this applied to custom channels? I can understand it being applied to general, trade, etc, but why to custom playermade channels? And as the goldspammers can clearly circumvent it why cant you revert this now you have seen it has failed to achieve its aim?

Nat

Issuntril

#1 - Oct. 23, 2007, 1:07 p.m.

Hi Natae,

I am unaware fo any intended changes to the way the server handles macros which post multiple lines of text, and I have passed on your query to the relevant department for a closer look. If there is any cause for concern, then I can assure you this issue will be properly addressed.

Thank you very much for your report!

Issuntril

Issuntril

#18 - Oct. 25, 2007, 11:25 a.m.

This change does seem to have been quite succesful in reducing the amount of spam in capital cities - I myself noticed it for the first time last night, and I had a good chuckle at the gold advertiser outside Ironforge bank that "Spammed" one line of text before logging out. :)

Please keep in mind that Blizzard do not officially support any addons, including the more popular ones like CTMod and GEM, and we do not take into account the effects on the functionality of such addons when implementing changes into the game.

I do not have an ETA for when you will be able to use your private channels as normal again, but as such a fix does not require a client-side patch, I'd imagine it will be sooner rather than later.

Issuntril

Issuntril

#21 - Oct. 25, 2007, 4:02 p.m.

As has already been said, it was unintended that this chat throttling was applied to private channels, and we are working on a solution to resolve this issue.

Issuntril

Issuntril

#23 - Oct. 25, 2007, 5:10 p.m.

I have not been notified of any differences between the fixes we plan to apply for both the EU and US realms, and this restriction will likely be in place across all communities. Please remember that Slouken also said that macros of this type will also be possible in guild chat as well as channels with less than 25 people.

If you want to pass us any feedback regarding this issue, then please do so in our Suggestion Forums at:

http://forums.wow-europe.com/board.html?sid=1&forumId=10024

Issuntril