What about do something with layer spam in the every chat which exists in the game? Ingame chat is absolutely not usable.
wouldnt need to spam if game wasnt ridiculously overpopulated…
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Or just don’t abuse layers.
Just download the layer addon, problem with spam solved.
nah you’re right though you shouldn’t be spamming channels other than layer channel. i’ve just got a chip on my shoulder lol
A lot of the spam happens though because some troll gets made admin of the layer channel then proceeds to put a password on it.
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I don’t know why I would need to download an add-on to fix a problem that an add-on caused.
Huh? people asking for layer changes in General chat do not use an addon … at least afaik. The layer addon I tell of makes you change without spamming, or help others do the same. It does nothing to alleviate the clutter in the Chat - unless everybody downloads it 
What? Stop advocating for abuse of game mechanics. Layer switching has created a situation where every game chat is useless for anything other than spamming “layer”. People who don’t have the layer add-on aren’t the problem, only abusers and spammers are. The social aspect of the game is being lost.
… has been long lost. Mega servers saw to this.
The layer changing behaviour is players’ only defence against the Mega-server-meta of bunching up everybody on the same layer.
First you complain about
then over
because players use game mechanics to overcome in-game problems.
Layer changes is the only way out of situations where there’s as many, or sometimes even more, players than mobs in any given area.
Either that or give us many more - and fixed - layers with one layer hop per character per day. Or even better: more servers/realms.
I’m not saying “layers are bad”, I understand why the layer mechanic is in the game. I’m saying “chat spammers are bad”.
Question: If the intention is for players to manage player placement across all layers, why isn’t there a button/control in the game for that?
edit: Yes, the social aspect of the game is already ruined, but why ruin it even more and not work on improving it?
If you want to play and to quest, layer changing is a must, because Blizz themselves constantly changes the layers of people. You can be in that perfect place: Enough players to group with, yet enough mobs for players to attack, and then a second later - with no one travelling into the zone, there’s suddenly a player or two for every spawnpoint.
Better ask why Blizz is ruining a perfectly good game with their layernig antics to save a few bucks instead og balming the palyres who just want to play.
Obvious answer: becauseby cramming people into fewer layers, Blizz earns money twice: sawing on bytes and hoping more will buy boosts because leveling is no fun.
And more: Because as you can see from these forums players disagree as to where the sweet spot in population density is.
What can we players do to improve on this?
How is it abusing? You need layer swap with layers. Some layers are completetly unplayble on.
You know you can sort your text channels? You should blame Blizzard. They should implement easier layerswapping into the UI so people are not forced to use addons for it.
If there is something that ruins chat is all bots and people spamming selling boost and services. At least with the gdkp ban we don’t have to see all that spam. Blizzard should just auto mute you if you don’t use the service channel for boost and services.
And layers used to have their own channel but people that got admin over it kept putting passwords on it so now people are forced to use other channels. Again Blizzard should not allow you to put password on channels or they should create a dedicated layer channel.
No, it is not. I leveled to 70, I did every Outland quest and I never changed my layer intentionally. Actually I deleted my NWB addon in TBC prepatch and I don’t even know what layer I’m playing on.
I encountered situations where competition over mobs was fierce. As I created my draenei character in the first minutes when server was up, I’m well aware of that. I also encountered situations where I was ganked over and over, as I was leveled protection paladin which is one of the most defenseless specializations when it comes to PvP. Well, that’s fine, I endured. But layer hopping is for the weak, who can’t stand up for the challenge and prefer to run away.
Remembering how it was when I leveled my Draenei in OG TBC - I too level as a Tnakadin - I’d say thet the fun has been taken out of the leveling by the mega servers.
PvP is not fun, I don’t do it, as it’s just leaving others to decide if I can actually play or have to use my limited time on corpseruns.
Also the realm communities havet been totally killed.
You might think me weak, but I prefer fun for competition - so for me with mega-servers only, layer hopping is essential for play time fun.
Download and use “AutoLayer”
Exactly what I have done. And as I am against addons, this is a big mouthful to swallow
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