[Meos]

I have said this once, maybe twice, and i will say it again.

A /say channel with a certain radius is a must have. Without it, there wont be much grounds for RP. The rest of the chats are a necessity in order to be able to interact with others. Sure if RP for you means to "be IC all the time" then just turn of the chats.

I am a social gamer who basically keeps on chatting on all channels available while im doing stuff. Id dare to say that RP also needs people who just sit and watch the sea, or some stranger loitering at an alley corner. You see, those are people like me, and the way they can do that is because they have tonnes of people to chitchat OOCly while they do so.

Taking of guild chat etc. wont really change much since people will anyway put up Ventrilo and TS servers. Heck, the current server i am playing on in AoC has a public vent server for anyone who wants to use (purchased by a community memeber).

I know some people, especially RPers think VoIPs are the bane of RP but there are also people who have no trouble RPing well even though they might be chitchatting on an vent, quite the contrary it can sometimes be very fun to have a laugh OOCly when the characters end up acting in way the players themselves didn't really expect.