A guide to Custom Channels.

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Seems a lot people don't know about custom channels. Custom channels allow for users to talk across instances and even across servers. You are currently limited to only being subscribed to 5 channels at the moment.

Joining a custom channel

There are a couple methods to join a custom channel

Through the chat options - right click on one of the chat tabs to bring up chat options, then click on the channels tab. Tab in the name of the channel and click join.
In chat - type "/channel_join "channel name". For any inline command like this you have to put quotes around the channel name if it has a space.


Chatting in a custom channel

There are several methods to type to a custom channel

Set it to your default channel In the lower left corner of the chat window is a drop down menu. Select the channel from there
Send a one-off message There are several commands to use including /c, /chan, and /channelsend. All of them work the say. Type the command followed by the chat name and then the message. For example /chan LFG LFM Andrith would send the message "LFM Andrith" to the LFG channel.
Bind a key You can bind a key to start a chat to a particular channel using the bind and Startchatwith commands. For example "/bind control+m Startchatwith /c "Global Cheese" " would bind control+m so you can start chatting with the Global Cheese channel.
Bind a key to change the channel You can also bing a key to change your default channel using the /bind and /channel_setcurrent. For example /bind control+m channel_setcurrent "Global Cheese" would bind the control+m to change your channel to the Global cheese channel.


List of some public user created channels

General Channels

Name: Chat
Description: A general, all-purpose chat
Name: Help
Description: For getting help and helping others with both CO and STO
Name: FAQs
Description: A channel for asking questions and getting help
Name: silvers
Description: A channel for silver members to socialize and get help
Name: Takofanes_Spawn
Description: Originally created for hunting Takofane, now used as a general chat.
Name: Clarence
Description: Originally created for hunting Clarence, now used as a general chat.
Name: PTS
Description: An official channel for discussion of the test server
Name: City
Description: Millennium City General chat
Name: Canadia
Description: Canada General chat
Name: Desert
Description: Desert General chat
Name: Monster
Description: Monster Island General chat
Name: Lemuria
Description: Lemuria General chat



Language Based channels

Name: HISPANO
Description: a place for Spanish speakers.
Name: RADIO BRASIL
Description: Portuguese channel
Name: FR Champo
Description: A channel for French speakers
Name: CoGerman
Description: For German speakers out there



Role Playing Channels

Name: Champions RP
Description: In Character RP channel
Name: Socrates Comm
Description: In Character RP channel
Name: RP
Description: In Character RP channel
Name: OOC
Description: Out of Character RP channel



Trading and crafting

Name: Trade
Description: ingame trading
Name: Auction
Description: Ingame trading
Name: Market Place
Description: Ingame trading
Name: Crafting
Description: Discussion of crafting



Grouping and player events

Name: LFG
Description: A channel for when you are looking for a group that is also used as a general chat.
Name: Contests
Description: A channel for announcing and discussing costume contests
Name: CC's
Description: For announcing upcoming costume contests
Name: CoPvP
Description: Discussion of PvP
Name: AtPvp
Description: Discussion of archetype only PvP
Name: Player Events
Description: Announcing and discussing of various player events including costume contests
Name: fightclub
Description: A Channel to set up duels, talk PvP, and organize the weekly Hero Fight Club event
Name: CarmelSantiago
Description: A channel for the "Where in the World is Carmel Santiago?"



If you have any questions, comments, or want to add/remove a custom channel from the list do be afraid to post here or send me a PM.

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Good info in the "General Gamplay" forum! *gasp*

/reported

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The guild im in is really only a fraction of the guild because we created a few and then made one big channel that we all talk in.

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Nice post

+1

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The guild im in is really only a fraction of the guild because we created a few and then made one big channel that we all talk in.

Yea, our guild found the cap was set at 250 members. Alts or Mains, which stinks. So we had to divide up into 2 divisions and disable guild chat in both. That way everyone is forced to use the Custom Channel to chat to the guild.

It works well.

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Good info in the "General Gamplay" forum! *gasp*

/reported

I'm sorry, it won't happen again.

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I'd probably mention the CORP channe, because it is full of awesome players.

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I'd probably mention the CORP channe, because it is full of awesome players.

What is the general purpose of the channel?

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Great post! I'm happy to see the Player Events channel there, hoping it will grow in the weeks to come!

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Great post! I'm happy to see the Player Events channel there, hoping it will grow in the weeks to come!

Figured you guys would want it in there to get people to join.

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Updated the list of custom channels.

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CORP is an channel for role-players to discuss things out of character and stands for Champions Online Role Players. It is moderated by the folks from www.championsonlineroleplayers.com.

Champions RP
in-character only, roleplaying channel

Socrates Comm
in-character only, roleplaying channel (less popular)

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CORP is an channel for role-players to discuss things out of character and stands for Champions Online Role Players. It is moderated by the folks from www.championsonlineroleplayers.com.

Champions RP
in-character only, roleplaying channel

Socrates Comm
in-character only, roleplaying channel (less popular)

Updated. Thanks

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This is great info. I wish we could get this stickied.

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This is great info. I wish we could get this stickied.

EIther this one or Winged's (http://forums.champions-online.com/showthread.php?t=77803) thread.

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Or put in as a default in-game feature for everyone.

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There is an option to put a motd and a description for the channel in the channel admin tab. However, I can't determine where you see the motd, either automatically or forced with a command line. Anyone have info on how to use the motd in globals properly?

Like many, we have several SGs joined by a common global channel, and I would rather post one motd to cover them all rather than having to hop to 4 SGs to make sure everyone sees the messages.

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There is an option to put a motd and a description for the channel in the channel admin tab. However, I can't determine where you see the motd, either automatically or forced with a command line. Anyone have info on how to use the motd in globals properly?

Like many, we have several SGs joined by a common global channel, and I would rather post one motd to cover them all rather than having to hop to 4 SGs to make sure everyone sees the messages.

I believe both descriptions and motd are useless at this moment. Hell, last time I tried to change the motd, neither I or the channel's owner could.

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LFG is my favourite. It has really made the game better for me. They really need to make a global chat!

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There is a general global chat channel as well...GlobalChat...that you can add to the list.

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There is a general global chat channel as well...GlobalChat...that you can add to the list.

Added that. Also added several others.

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Is 5 the max number we can have?

LFG seems like the only useful one. All of the others have too few members at the moment.

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There is an option to put a motd and a description for the channel in the channel admin tab. However, I can't determine where you see the motd, either automatically or forced with a command line. Anyone have info on how to use the motd in globals properly?

Like many, we have several SGs joined by a common global channel, and I would rather post one motd to cover them all rather than having to hop to 4 SGs to make sure everyone sees the messages.

I think you can see the description by hovering the mouse over the channel name on the right screen.

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Is 5 the max number we can have?

LFG seems like the only useful one. All of the others have too few members at the moment.

Yes, 5 is the max number.

The others are low for several reasons, I believe. Lack of knowledge about custom channels. People creating several custom channels with the same intent because they don't know about the others. The 5 channel limit. I know I have left several chats because I am at the limit.

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Added another channel to the list.

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there is a LBT to

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there is a LBT to

What is that channel used for?

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/bookmarked

10char

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Please add the fightclub channel to this list. This is a PvP channel where we set up duels, talk PvP, and organize the weekly Hero Fight Club event. Hero Fight Club is a weekly event where everyone meets up at Carlos's Gym in MC and duels. It happens every Thursday at 7pm PST (10pm EST).

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Please add the fightclub channel to this list. This is a PvP channel where we set up duels, talk PvP, and organize the weekly Hero Fight Club event. Hero Fight Club is a weekly event where everyone meets up at Carlos's Gym in MC and duels. It happens every Thursday at 7pm PST (10pm EST).

Added it to the list.

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There is also a channel just called global that has several hundred people in it already

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There is also a channel just called global that has several hundred people in it already

General purpose chat channel I take it?

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It might be a good idea if we attempted to consolidate some of the channels by declaring one or the other to be the primary trade, lfg, global, etc channel. It's still a good idea to list them all but since this is the first thread of it's kind we are in the position to keep this orderly. Possibly base the decision off their current population or how easy it is to remember?


also, don't forget the mighty takofane_spawn channel

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General purpose chat channel I take it?

yep

10 char

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It might be a good idea if we attempted to consolidate some of the channels by declaring one or the other to be the primary trade, lfg, global, etc channel. It's still a good idea to list them all but since this is the first thread of it's kind we are in the position to keep this orderly. Possibly base the decision off their current population or how easy it is to remember?


also, don't forget the mighty takofane_spawn channel

There are plenty of factors to consider when marking one has a primary channel for it's purpose. Size, ability to stay on topic, ease to remember are all included. Should I ever get around to separating by purpose I might look into this more. Of course right now this (and Winged's version on the general board) fall off the front page quite easily and are not as helpful as I would like.

Also, I left takofanes_spawn off the list because it is really just a temporary channel and gets mentioned enough both on the forums and ingame as is. If it sticks around after Bloodmoon, then it will be a different matter.

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cool sounds good

back to the top for you

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nice post.

10 char for bumpage

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With the recent interest in the thread, this might be a good time to ask if anyone else has any other public channels to add?

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Looks like this finally got moved over to the general board.

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Bind a key to change the channel You can also bing a key to change your default channel using the /bind and /channel_setcurrent. For example /bind control+m channel_setcurrent "Global Cheese" would bind the control+m to change your channel to the Global cheese channel.

I love this command, found this "setcurrent" command while filtering the the CMD list and things have been so much easier ever since.

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I would like to add this channel to your list, think is appropriate.

Name: HISPANO
Description: a place for Spanish speakers.

The channel for the Hispanic people un CO. We have about 500+ members.

"El canal de los Hispanos en CO"

thanks :D

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I'm copying a post I made in another thread about the all-instance zone chat, I figure you can add it here if you want - it'd be a way to give people a chance to communicate and ask for help in a specific map but across all instances of it. Pretty much, it'd be like making the current zone chats available after they apply the fix to make zone chat normal again.

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Alright, so since I finally had enough time to mess around with it, I decided to try making these global-zone channels, in preparation of when they decide to fix the current zone chats to only be instance-chat. Let me know what I can do to improve these - the messages of the Day I made as something to give you an indication of that channel's currently active.

Zone ---------- Chat Channel Name

Desert ------- Desert

Canada ------ Canadia (yeah, I know it's not "Canada," but the client crashed on me and now canada's showing as someone else owning it)

Millenium City ----- City

Monster Island ------ Monster

Lemuria ------ Lemuria



Like I said, these are something if you guys want to you can subscribe to and use at will, you can subscribe to all of them and just toggle them off and on when you enter different zones and they (should) stay active on all characters on an account after you join them until they're destroyed. Thanks.

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Updated the list.

New channels added and channels separated into sections.

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Just make sure you don't join "Team" chat, its impossible to leave. Ive been a member since the game was first released. :(

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Need a LFG Champions channel since STO took over our LFG channel.

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the global and globalchat channels are useless. globalchat is empty and bereft of members (meaning no one even has it turned on). global you are already a member of really and it doesn't get much use either. both of these for some reason are impossible to leave and since you can only join 5 channels at a time these permanently reduce the number of custom channels you can join. you have been warned.

can we please get a dev to look into this issue. other custom channels i want to join, but can't because of the 5 limit, and these 2 are already taking up slots.

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i think we should separate the global and lfg channels from the sto ones.
- channels created: Champions (CO specific global chat) and lfChampions (CO specific lfg chat)

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Anyone got a Grond hunting channel?

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Just make sure you don't join "Team" chat, its impossible to leave. Ive been a member since the game was first released. :(

:mad:

..but of course I did... and same thing with Global...


I would like to recommend the channel coPvP - I am new at PvP and am learning a lot from nice members there. I really miss a channel that includes all your friends. I am thinking about making my own social one and invite all friends there. Good people meets good people there and I can do my LFG rants to people I really want to lair about with :)

Or IS there some sort of command, like "tellFriends", anybody have any clue?



Gotta add the Trade and LFG channels.


Brilliant informative post. Wish I'd read about this earlier.

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Well thank goodness this was here.. I almost forgot how to brush my teeth...
And to think.... all along I was using baking soda instead of toothpaste!!!

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Awesome info, wish I knew that before.. but never too late to learn new stuff!

I actually learned most of what I know once I reached level 40... haha. :)

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LFG was always a great channel. Not enough people around these days, not even in global!!!!

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'silvers' been added?

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Seems a lot people don't know about custom channels. Custom channels allow for users to talk across instances and even across servers. You are currently limited to only being subscribed to 5 channels at the moment.

Joining a custom channel

There are a couple methods to join a custom channel

Through the chat options - right click on one of the chat tabs to bring up chat options, then click on the channels tab. Tab in the name of the channel and click join.
In chat - type "/channel_join "channel name". For any inline command like this you have to put quotes around the channel name if it has a space.


Chatting in a custom channel

There are several methods to type to a custom channel

Set it to your default channel In the lower left corner of the chat window is a drop down menu. Select the channel from there
Send a one-off message There are several commands to use including /c, /chan, and /channelsend. All of them work the say. Type the command followed by the chat name and then the message. For example /chan LFG LFM Andrith would send the message "LFM Andrith" to the LFG channel.
Bind a key You can bind a key to start a chat to a particular channel using the bind and Startchatwith commands. For example "/bind control+m Startchatwith /c "Global Cheese" " would bind control+m so you can start chatting with the Global Cheese channel.
Bind a key to change the channel You can also bing a key to change your default channel using the /bind and /channel_setcurrent. For example /bind control+m channel_setcurrent "Global Cheese" would bind the control+m to change your channel to the Global cheese channel.


List of some public user created channels

General Channels

Name: Chat
Description: A general, all-purpose chat
Name: Help
Description: For getting help and helping others
Name: Takofanes_Spawn
Description: Originally created for hunting Takofane, now used as a general chat.
Name: PTS
Description: An official channel for discussion of the test server
Name: Perk Hunters
Description: Discussion of perks
Name: HISPANO
Description: a place for Spanish speakers.
Name: City
Description: Millennium City General chat
Name: Canadia
Description: Canada General chat
Name: Desert
Description: Desert General chat
Name: Monster
Description: Monster Island General chat
Name: Lemuria
Description: Lemuria General chat



Role Playing Channels

Name: CORP
Description: channel for role-players to discuss things out of character and stands for Champions Online Role Players
Name: Champions RP
Description: In Character RP channel
Name: Socrates Comm
Description: In Character RP channel
Name: RP
Description: In Character RP channel
Name: OOC
Description: Out of Character RP channel



Trading and crafting

Name: Trade
Description: ingame trading
Name: Auction
Description: Ingame trading
Name: Market Place
Description: Ingame trading
Name: Crafting
Description: Discussion of crafting



Grouping and player events

Name: LFG
Description: A channel for when you are looking for a group that is also used as a general chat.
Name: Player Events
Description: Announcing and discussing of various player events including costume contests
Name: fightclub
Description: A Channel to set up duels, talk PvP, and organize the weekly Hero Fight Club event
Name: CarmelSantiago
Description: A channel for the "Where in the World is Carmel Santiago?"



If you have any questions, comments, or want to add/remove a custom channel from the list do be afraid to post here or send me a PM.

You need to add 'RADIO BRASIL" in your list for Portuguese speaker we have like 200 subscribers.

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This thread is horribly out of date. Maybe this should become a page in the wiki, so people can actually update it.

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nice idea this thread and thx
you can add the french speaking channel to for General Channels

FR Champo

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This thread is horribly out of date. Maybe this should become a page in the wiki, so people can actually update it.

Or I could just stop being lazy and update it. Maybe tomorrow.

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All right, Updated the list. Several channels added. I did remove Perk Hunters from the list. About the only thing that shows up there is the occasional MT. Don't know about the activity of some of the other channels as it would be nice to remove channels that don't get used at all anymore.

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Might want to add coPvP (PvP channel) and Clarence (channel for hunting Clarence originally, but tends to get used for other event hunts as well).

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Might want to add coPvP (PvP channel) and Clarence (channel for hunting Clarence originally, but tends to get used for other event hunts as well).

Added those two along with several other channels.

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ItalianHQ is the italian-based channel. You might want to add it.

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Yesterday I found a new channel where several people have been joined.
SUPER RPG

Was it on your list already?

greetings
StP

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This very useful, I defiantly go to the Rp channel from here! :D

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I removed CORP from the list as it seems to now be a private channel.

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I will no longer be updating this thread. If someone wants to recreate and continue it, they are more than welcome to. Tiyshen is also more than welcome to remove it as a sticky.