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How in your opinion private messages shoult work in a survival game?

michal--- English 2026-10-06 10 votes

You may know that I started to work on a survival game called An Other Life, a couple weeks a go. Today I started to wonder, how you guys would prefer to use private messages in such a game? I have two suggestions, one is more realistic and the second one is less realistic but you propably seen it in some game already. What do you think about it?

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I'd like to send private messages like in other games, so I can send them to someone even when I am very far to the person who recieves them.
60% 6 votes
Make private messages so I can send them only when I am close anow to the recieving player for example 20 steps max, this is more realistic and feels like you're talking to someone, like in real life.
0% 0 votes
I have an other idea.
30% 3 votes
Don't bring private messages to your game.
10% 1 votes

if you choosen I have an other idea, what is it, write it in this text field.

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  • Hybrid close-range chat by default, and long-range messages only through in-world items like a radio or letters that need to be crafted.

  • Messages are end to end encrypted. No one outside of this chat, not even whatsapp, has access to them.

  • Bro. Private messages are private messages. Not in game character chat. Get that in. You know there's stuff like nearby chat? Heck, add nearby mentions. But again, it's just chat anyway.

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