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Something is tickling at the back of my mind about being invited to the chat before you can actually get in there. Anyone else recall that?

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frightwig wrote:
I thought this wasn't a new thing? I've been able to send tells and emails across servers for as long as I can remember, and although I didn't do it much, I've been able to join other server's channels as recently as 6 months ago.


I'll have to log onto eclipse and check the chat channel listing, and look for a "grin" to offer better help. But the only suggestion I can think of is that sometimes it's case sensitive. You should also put the full syntax in there... (SWG.Eclipse.roomname for example)

I looked at SeanBlader's post though, and it looks like he did everything right. The only guess I have is that it hasn't been created yet?

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The cross server tells and emails have worked for me for a while. It's the chat rooms that I can never get to work. As for testing, grin definitely existed yesterday (DesktopSaki and I were working together to try and connect between them).

Method I used:
I used the chat interface to create Eclipse.chat.grin (using the command line was being slightly buggy). The channel was a public channel named grin and with the info text set to Galaxy Ranger Information Network.
DesktopSaki used "/chatroom join Eclipse.chat.grin" to join the channel.
Both of us used "/alias egrin /Eclipse.chat.grin".
Both of us had a window with the grin channel added.
Both of us could communicate through said window.
I logged into my Wanderhome character.
"/chatroom join Eclipse.chat.grin" failed.
I could not find the chat room through the interface.
I sent a tell to DesktopSaki, asking for a chat room invite (/chatroom invite Wanderhome.Lythender Eclipse.chat.grin, I think it was).
The invite claimed to work from Eclipse but did nothing on my end.
After messing around for a while with similar stuff, I couldn't find anything that worked (most of it was similar to the above).
I logged back on to Eclipse and did "/chatroom destroy Eclipse.chat.grin". The channel was destroyed and DesktopSaki was kicked from it (sadly, it likes to recreate itself whenever I do /chatroom refresh).

The channel definitely existed and worked locally. Trying from another server failed (with minimal error context given).

Oh, also, I forgot to mention that Eclipse.chat.RIN should almost always exist. Feel free to try using that one although be warned that it can conflict with your local RIN.

:okes you again about using GRM instead of RIN/GRIN::

/grin

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/flee

Sorry to necro this, but I am having a really slow day today, and I tried to join the GRIN chatroom.

Is it even set up?

I've used every command listed in the posts above, and they have not yielded access to the chatroom.

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BioEngine wrote:

Sorry to necro this, but I am having a really slow day today, and I tried to join the GRIN chatroom.

Is it even set up?

I've used every command listed in the posts above, and they have not yielded access to the chatroom.

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Well, after trying for an hour or so, I could not get the cross server chat stuff working (see my second to last post in this thread for info on this). Whether or not it is up, it doesn't seem to work. If you can figure out how to get it working, please let me know. I'm guessing it's just another one of those bugged features (if you read the webpage instructions, the commands they list are not even the right commands for this game......).

Edit: it is my second to last post (well, third to last now), not my last post.

Message Edited by Nemo0 on 06-14-2005 12:46 AM

withdrawn

Message Edited by Almagill on 06-14-2005 03:10 AM

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BioEngine wrote:

Sorry to necro this, but I am having a really slow day today, and I tried to join the GRIN chatroom.

Is it even set up?

I've used every command listed in the posts above, and they have not yielded access to the chatroom.

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I've been trying to figure this out, myself.

so far, it seems to work EQ2 -> SWG, but not SWG -> SWG.

Whoever sets it up, I'll just humbly request (again) that we use erin or GR or something instead of grin, since that's an emote, and if I do an alias, having the "executing alias line" appear every time I chat drives me absolutely humbuckernuts.

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DesktopSaki wrote:
humbuckernuts.

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I just tried "/chatroom Join SWG.Sunrunner.chat.RIN" and it worked like a charm, so they must not have it enabled to go across SWG servers since it didn't work using Eclipse in there. Doing /bug now.