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Is there a reason you cannot just tune out?

Moreso? How in the heck is that possible? At least if the OOC chat is in the same window, they can SEE the other people tapping their feet, chatting, or whatever. If they tab out to another window they stop paying attention COMPLETELY to their MUD window.

I'm sorry, but this just makes no sense at all.

I can understand someone just deciding to be stubborn and insist it is better this way or that they just like it better this way. But you simply cannot argue that it results in less OOC chat, because IM clients are too widespread. And you definitely cannot argue that it is less of a distraction, because tabbing out to another program draws someone's attention away far more.


That's true. But there are a lot of people who would never cheat without an outside impetus. Once they start talking to people OFF your game, that outside negative peer pressure can kick in. And don't say "yeah but that's rare", because I've dealt with hundreds of customers that have been sucked into cheating in this exact manner.