Feb 7, 2017, 3:48 PM

@Kanye-Qwest said in Coming Soon: Arx, After the Reckoning:

Or do what you would do in reality. If your conversation in a public place has turned into something that really needs to be continued in private...go somewhere private. Stand up and make your goodbyes and go chat about your secret plot to overthrow the shadow government.

It's not a good example though because the issue isn't really privacy - you could be talking about completely non-confidential matters - but spam.

Let's say you're sitting at a bench in a park somewhere iRL. Sure, now and then you can hear someone's kid yelling something or a couple will go by, but for the most part you can have an undisturbed conversation with someone else.

Now take the exact same thing in a 'park' room on a MUSH. You may sitting at a 'bench' place so your poses are limited to it, but everyone else who's not is posing globally. So you are still spammed for the exact same volume as if no one else was using the places code.

Now if you argued people should use places then yes, I'd quite agree, but it's not the default (and places don't exist in every room, of course).