What are these (M) conversations?

[MysticJhn]

I haven't played the game in a loooooong time.
Months to a year.

So these conversations that keep popping up when nobody is nearby to talk that are marked with (M) are throwing me off.

What are they?
Why can't I see the people talking?
Can they be shut off?

I don't want to hear people's rogue conversations that are totally unimportant, private conversations.
Seriously, why are people talking to one another over some kind of map wide PA system?

[SanRath]

Main chat. A type of global chat.
@main off
I think there's a perma option if you look at @commands

[MysticJhn]

Main chat. A type of global chat.
@main off
I think there's a perma option if you look at @commands

When was that put in?

That seems like a very annoying feature that can only lead to people abusing it by mouthing off to an entire map.

[Kain]

@main permaoff to turn it off when you log back on. Main chat is suppose to be used to recruit for parties and probably find people. People have been using it to troll around and act like idiots. It was put in not too long ago. And it goes to the entire server, not just one map. Obviously if you have main chat off then you won't see anything.

[MysticJhn]

Alright, thanks to everyone for the help.

I'm sure it probably had those intended uses, but from the little bit I was playing earlier it wasn't any of them.
It was like people having normal chat over a PA system.

I don't know about anyone else, but I don't imagine Payon Dungeon having anything close to a PA.

[skith]

I actually like main chat. It's kinda interesting to chat with the "globe" when you are farming or questing alone.

[Evilness45]

Main chat WAS used to recruit, but since so many people turned it off permanently, nobody bothers trying to recruit using that.

[Mal]

Main chat WAS used to recruit, but since so many people turned it off permanently, nobody bothers trying to recruit using that.

This sounds so counter productive ):
I still use it to find people, in the hopes they're actually on/don't have main off.

[MysticJhn]

It's kind of a weird way to recruit then.

I mean someone that MIGHT be interested could be halfway across the globe from you.
Then again, maybe it's just me.
I've never been one to form a party much and never played WOE.

[Evilness45]

Why would it be weird?
You make a call on the whole server and they all can answer you back immediately. Unfortunately, lots of people are "what is this blue text I can't read" and turn it off.

[Randomninja]

It's kind of a weird way to recruit then.

I mean someone that MIGHT be interested could be halfway across the globe from you.
Then again, maybe it's just me.
I've never been one to form a party much and never played WOE.

You make it sound like we have to walk everywhere
Then again this thread smells of troll

[skith]

I mean someone that MIGHT be interested could be halfway across the globe from you.

Spoiler for Hidden:

[MysticJhn]

How did a legitimate question to into a suspect troll? o.O

Sorry if there's aspects of the game I actually don't understand.
Not everyone that gets that message would be standing right next to a teleport NPC, y'know.
And most classes can't just teleport on command to specific areas.

[skith]

Ok let's think for a second about what you have said. Someone far away from warp girl.. hmm.. interesting. So exactly can you tell me how will this player go back to his city? Nobody walk back the way they have come from. They either use a BW or actually kill themselves, or at least that what common sense implies.

[MysticJhn]

Who would kill themselves?

And I don't ever carry buttefly wings myself, never had a use for them.
At least I think that's what you meant by BW.
It took me a minute to even remember what a butterfly wing did.

Sorry for being a legitimate novice when it comes to most things in this game, but there's no real reason to be rude about it.
Especially when I started the topic by saying I hadn't played the game in months to a year.