Originally Posted by
Cursed Shadow
Bring the chat system in line with newer games, which is where new players will be coming from, using new games with better chat systems.
If I type /whisper or /direct followed by the users name it should fix that person to my direct chat, and I shouldn't have to muck about in the hypercom to get directs to work.
The whole +d Name and /d Message is not what most people are used to, certainly you can't find documentation for it easily, or are you told about it within the game.
An alternative could be a username e.g. /nabbl Hello
Here is an explanation I had to write to a new player the other day: