Earlier today I left the nether on smp7 to find myself among an incredible construction. When I typed /ch who the system told me that Aikar and other player could hear me, so I proceeded to congratulate them on the local channel on their magnificent creation. Aikar and the other player answered quite surprised, because they had no knowledge of what I was talking about, and quickly told me they were in fact very much away from me and from each other, much farther than the local channel should allow; in fact, even though I could hear them both, they could not hear each other. I testes /ch who several times after that while exploring the surrounding areas, and always Aikar, the other player, and for a short while even NurseKillJoy appeared as if close by, while in fact very far away. I then disconnected and have not make any more tests. This is just to report the anomalous behavior of the Local channel. Greetings.
I have experienced this on another of my accounts, i was about 40000,40000 blocks out in fresh unexplored territory and could hear some local chat from time to time. Never did find out what caused it though.
this is a known bug, sorry that i didnt make it clear to you that we knew. my towns HQ is linked with so many other places :/ its like a hot spot. me and bownz were about 1000 blocks away from each other, but you could hear us both. but i couldnt hear bownz lol
It is a bug that exists in REALLY far distances. I have not invested the time yet to investigating it as I don't consider it serious. It will be fixed soon
It really scared me at first, thinking someone was close to me when I thought I was all alone, but now I kinda like it, too. It gets old explaining why I can't come and bring some people torches, or food, or give them a place to spend the nite, but, yah, it does make being way out in the wild more fun sometimes.
That would be funny /ch r it connects you to a random player in the server and you can chat to them and of course you would need /ch r true means you can be called and /ch r false so you cant be called
Lol Im in the wild all the time and people beg for food 1 feet out of spawn. I try to find them and can't lol.