Chat Tut

 

CHAT CHANNELS 

The brief:   Navigate your chat channels using [Enter], [Up/Down Arrows],[Backspace], [Escape] and Y keys.  Accept and send chat and /invite in your channels with abbreviations accurately. Join the Aelinet channel. Have Fun!

 Long Version

 Choose your posting and reply channels these ways:
#1 Press [Enter] to open your chat hud reply feature and control where your chat goes using up/down arrows.
  #2 To reply to a personal chat directly, [backspace] forces the chat hud to reply to the last personal chat channel it saw.
  #3 If the chat target you want isn't there, escape from chat and use your Y chat screen selection menu on the left, using SEARCH or RECENT headings to find your recipient.  

 Players commonly get the same daily directives, especially in Party and Trial slots. Ask your friendly channels "any [your directive (s)]?"  Chances are someone is and you can team up for more efficient play.   

 To invite a person or chat room to your team, open any chat they can see, and type
 /invite at the start of the line (or forward slash shareGroup). Once you start typing it will auto complete and you can just hit enter. Add a few words of what it is, like "OOnm4 gc + 4" and enter.  

 /Invite uses abbreviations: "+3" means there are three open slots in the mission. "nm#" means it's a NightMare (locked for players below Trial rank) with the level 1-9 noted. "GC" stands for God Carry, when host will solo this and guests chase and nab drops.  "End" or "Free" or "F" means the mission is almost over: join to get the completion only. Other abbreviations stand for the mission name: HT= Hespilon Temple.  CA = Crashed Airship, OO = Operation Ophelia, etc

 Aelinet, a server wide chat channel, is good to have. It's much like Pantheon Arcanum chat, but multi-pantheon and reaches almost all the Elder and Junior Gods on the server. You can see and post /invite to missions are there regularly. When you see one you need, click it quickly before it fills or expires, and you will find yourself in a group doing that mission together. 

trick:  Instead of clicking [exit] or [leave], type /leave in any chat, which removes you from a battle team, but never a chat channel.  If you click an "exit" or "leave" button in SF, you can, with bad luck and no fault of your own, leave a chat channel you would rather keep. 

BTW,  

 Use the [Invite] button only when the recipient is expecting an invite from you, or you KNOW they will welcome it.  Otherwise, it's annoying spam and gets in their way.  You can can right click any players name in any chat list and invite to group from there.  

 F11 lets you leave an instance without completing it, and separates you from your battle team.

  F12 log off and on fixes many things easily, like Buggy game: like sound dropping out or items not appearing in your inventory.

It's time for bug report when connections, features, inventory or game functions go missing. Ironically, the in game "bug report" function is bugged.  Instead, use https://support.my.games/   It's worked for me many times.  (it's not https://support.my.games/sf_int anymore)