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An important thing that we would like to stress is to please never give out personal information to another person in the game. It's fantastic to make friends in Free Realms, but they don't need to know everything about your life outside of gaming!
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All chat interface elements are found at the bottom left of your in-game screen.
The Chat Window is the box where the text from various types of chats go into. There are tabs to let you focus on a specific chat, when selected, or a general one (the first tab labeled All) that will show all chats that you are receiving. You can resize the Chat Window by using the resizing handle (pictured left). Simply click the handle with your mouse and drag the Chat Window left, right, up, or down. It does have its limitations, and will stop increasing or decreasing in size when it reaches those limits.
Excluding whispers, you are able to click on a player's name in the chat window and a box with four options will pop up. You can close this box by clicking the tiny X in the upper right-hand corner.
The Chat Settings are indicated by the little wrench icon in the bottom left corner of your screen. Clicking this will bring up the various chat settings, such as enabling or disabling certain chat lines or changing chat bubble colors.
Overview of the Chat Settings |
Chat Settings Text and Bubble Colors |
The Color Wheel |
The Chat Menu is the speech bubble icon to the right of the Chat Settings wrench and the left of the Chat Console ellipsis. The options in here are all pre-set chats, or "canned chats" as some refer to them as. These are the only chats that accounts registered as under age 13 are permitted to use!
The Chat Console icon is the box with three dots, commonly known as ellipsis, that is in-between the Chat Menu speech bubble icon and the Emotes mask icon. Clicking this will bring up the chat input box (where you type your text into), and can also be accessed by simply pressing the enter key on your keyboard.
The Emotes icon is the mask that is to the right of the Chat Console ellipsis icon. This will bring up the emotion menu that allows you to perform various actions, such as dancing or laughing. Many of the emotes have slash commands that can be performed from the chat console. To discover more about these commands, please view our In-Game Commands guide.
Local chat is displayed only from people within a small distance from you. Because of the limited range, many players will not be able to see your chat, so usually asking for help here will not yield many answers unless there is a larger group of players nearby. Only displays in the first chat tab (labeled All) of the Chat Window. To utilize this chat, ensure that you are in the first tab of the chat window and press enter or click the ellipsis button to open up the Chat Console. There is no way to disable this chat.
Yell chats are displayed in red text, and assumed to be seen only from people in the same "area" as you (such as Sanctuary, Highroad Junction, and so forth). This chat can only been seen in the All tab of the Chat Window. It is useful to utilize this chat whenever you are really stuck on something (quest help, can't find an NPC, etc) that people in the local area can help you out with. Generally speaking, the Yell chat should not be used for casual conversation. There is no way to disable this chat.
The Area chat is displayed from people within a wide area of you. There are various "zones" for this type of chat, which at this point are known as: Sacred Grove - North, Sacred Grove - South, Snowhill, Seaside, Blackspore, and Briarwood. Proper etiquette for this channel should include friendly, general chatter with your fellow players, with avoidance of asking for hand-outs, trades, or groups. This should be a good place to ask your fellow players for help or advice in playing the game. If enabled, you can utilize this chat by typing /1 message into your chat console, or select the Area tab to default your chat to there.
The Trade chat displays chatter from the trade chatline. Proper etiquette for this channel should include asking for certain items, including the price you are willing to pay for it, or offering up the items that you have for sale, naming the price you wish to garner from its sale. Spamming the same offer or request repeatedly will get you onto the ignore list of many, many players, so please refrain from repeating your trade offer/request until a reasonable amount of time has passed. If enabled, you can utilize this chat by typing /2 message into your chat console, or select the Trade tab to default your chat to there.
LFG chat is also known as Looking For Group. This displays chat from the LFG chatline. Proper etiquette for this channel should include stating the level and job that you wish to group with, whether or not you are able to go into Member-Only dungeons or battles, and, if on a time restraint for playing, stating how much time you will have to participate in your group. General chatter should be avoided on this channel as it would distract from others that are earnestly attempting to find groups. If enabled, you can utilize this chat by typing /3 message into your chat console, or select the LFG tab to default your chat to there.
The Members Only chat is displayed to any member with this chat option enabled throughout the entire server. Proper etiquette for this channel should include friendly, general chatter with your fellow players, with avoidance of asking for hand-outs, trades, or groups. This should be a good place to ask your fellow players for help or advice in playing the game. If enabled, you can utilize this chat by typing /4 message into your chat console, or select the Members Only tab to default your chat to there.
When you are in a group, you automatically have this chatline. If you are utilizing group chat for combat purposes, proper etiquette should include only speaking about what your group is focusing on and not detracting from their purpose with outside chatter. For other purposes, group chat can be used as a somewhat private chatline, and what is "proper" is more dictated by the group members than anything else. You can utilize this chat by typing /g message into your chat console, or select the Group tab to default your chat to there.
Whenever you receive or send a /whisper in game, a new tab is created in your chat window. The tab is named whatever the player's name is that you are whispering to. While no one aside from you and the person you are whispering to can see the chatter, please try to be respectful of the person, and never give out personal information to anyone, no matter who they say, or you think, that they are! We cannot stress this enough, never give out personal information, inside or out of game! You can default your chat to this by selecting the appropriate tab, or directly send a whisper.
Sending a direct whisper to a player with a first and last name.
With the introduction of guilds in the 06/22/2009 patch, there was also a new chat line put in place! This chat line can only be seen by yourself and other online members of the guild that you are in. What is and is not appropriate for guild chatter varies by guild, but at this point, most guilds have expressed that they will not tolerate members who try to circumvent the chat filter for vulgarity's sake. There is a tab created especially for guild chatter, as well as a "/gu" command that can be used. If the guild tab is selected, your chats will default to that line!