 The Paragon Wiki Archive documents the state of City of Heroes/Villains as it existed on December 1, 2012.
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Global Chat Handles
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Overview
A Global Chat Handle is a name that each account is given. All Chat Handles begin with @ and then the handle name. (ie: @example). A person's Chat Handle will be displayed on all of their Global Friends' lists.
Once a Chat Handle has been assigned to a person's account, it can only be changed once. The only exception to this was in summer of 2006, when a sort of Chat Handle "respec" was given. Players were able to change their Chat Handle even if they had once changed it previously.
How Chat Handles are Used
Chat Handles can be used to send tells to players on different servers, or instead of their character (ie: if their villain is set to ignore hero tells, they can recieve Global tells even from a hero). Any global tells sent while a player is offline will be received the next time someone logs in on that account. There is a limit to how many global tells can be sent to one person by any amount of people.
How Chat Handles are Decided
When Chat Handles first came out, the names given where identical to their CoH Forum names, with some minimal editing due to disallowed charecters in handle names. However, when a new account is created, the Chat Handle is made the same name as the very first character created on that account.
Known Glitches
Chat handles have been a bit unstable since the "Handle Respec". Some people have experienced the following:
- The account's handle is chosen, but later their handle changes to that of an alternate character and the option to change their handle is considered used.
- People have changed their handle, but it later changed back to the previous.
See Also
Still needed to be added to page
- info on dissallowed charecters vs charecter names.
- update info on Known Glitches (ie, respec given to help with bug, not cause of it)
- catagory needed for this and other chat channel pages.
- other stuff >< needs to be reread
