I don't agree with clan messages going to match window but the chat system could do with a little rework. Like, it should be customizable. I made a brief suggestion to muse about it but I think if I can flesh it out and explain it better, they might see the system better!
Basically, you can define what message is displayed in the tab. Create a tab/delete and stuff.
So you could do something like
Global, Match, Clan, PM for tabs
Then select what information you want to displayed in the tab.
So You could do something like..
Global Chat
Clan Chat
Match Chat
Team Chat
Crew Chat
PM Chat
Party Chat
Friends Login/Logout
Clan Login/Logout
Clan Joins/Quits (the different is people leaving and joining the clan)
Match Damage - (It be nice to actually see this in chat instead of top right, knowing when a balloon goes it useful to me)
Signals
System Notification (Server wide message and the like, should be on across all tabs as fixed anyway but still useful to display that)
(Just in case someone's browser can't handle unicode
☑ - tick box
☐ - unticked box.)
An example customisation for me would be:
| All | Global | Clan | Match | PM |
| Global Chat | ☑ | ☑ | ☐ | ☐ | ☐ |
| Clan Chat | ☑ | ☑ | ☑ | ☐ | ☐ |
| Match Chat | ☑ | ☐ | ☐ | ☑ | ☐ |
| Team Chat | ☑ | ☐ | ☑ | ☑ | ☐ |
| Crew Chat | ☑ | ☐ | ☑ | ☑ | ☐ |
| PM Chat | ☑ | ☑ | ☑ | ☑ | ☑ |
| Party Chat | ☑ | ☑ | ☑ | ☑ | ☑ |
| Friends Login/Logout | ☑ | ☑ | ☐ | ☐ | ☑ |
| Clan Login/Logout | ☑ | ☐ | ☑ | ☐ | ☐ |
| Clan Joins/Quits | ☑ | ☐ | ☑ | ☐ | ☐ |
| Match Damage | ☑ | ☐ | ☐ | ☑ | ☐ |
| Signals | ☑ | ☐ | ☐ | ☑ | ☐ |
| System Notification | ☑ | ☑ | ☑ | ☑ | ☑ |
While someone else might not want a PM tab but they might want a Signals + Crew + team chat only. So it would look like this for them
| All | Global | Clan | Match | No Distraction | | Global Chat | ☑ | ☑ | ☐ | ☐ | ☐ | | Clan Chat | ☑ | ☑ | ☑ | ☐ | ☐ | | Match Chat | ☑ | ☐ | ☐ | ☑ | ☐ | | Team Chat | ☑ | ☐ | ☑ | ☑ | ☑ | | Crew Chat | ☑ | ☐ | ☑ | ☑ | ☑ | | PM Chat | ☑ | ☑ | ☑ | ☑ | ☐ | | Party Chat | ☑ | ☑ | ☑ | ☑ | ☐ | | Friends Login/Logout | ☑ | ☑ | ☐ | ☐ | ☐ | | Clan Login/Logout | ☑ | ☐ | ☑ | ☐ | ☐ | | Clan Joins/Quits | ☑ | ☐ | ☑ | ☐ | ☐ | | Match Damage | ☑ | ☐ | ☐ | ☑ | ☐ | | Signals | ☑ | ☐ | ☐ | ☑ | ☑ | | System Notification | ☑ | ☑ | ☑ | ☑ | ☑ |
And this should also affect the in game chat as well. Only they should be able to cycle thou the tabs using key binding (tab while chat is active?) and based on the options selected for the tab, the key to activate the chat should show up for that.. for example, if I were to use Clan chat, then the options to send a chat to crew/team/match/party is allowed.
Finally, A tabshould get highlighted when it receive new updates, highlighted colours changed according to the type of information received. For a example, chat like messages - Red, Quit/Joins/login/logout - Pale Yellow, System Messages - Green. Or whatever colours best match the GoIO theme  |
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