Styx wrote:Leave. Please.
Shush you.
Ok, here goes.
Sector chat: The reason you don't want this is because (the way the chat channels are set up) it tells you who is in the entire area beyond your radar range. Bad idea.
What we want is a say chat, not a sector chat. So ideally you want a chat channel which does not show a list of agent profiles, and where you can only see comments made within 300m of you.
Speech bubbles: you could make these look fairly discreet - a small, square text box above the avatar. However hardcore EVEers (including, I'm sorry to say, most of my corp) dislike this idea very much so if you do implement it, you would need to have a toggle where people can turn it off.
Private message and the other channels do not work, because when you see a couple of people you want to speak to who are not in your squad, or your corp...you can't. Even if you PM them you still have to say "hey, I just saw you ran past..." as a preamble. This is stupid.
This has happened to me six or seven times since I started playing, and it's really really annoying.