So, I've used the general chat to find new members for my alliance, and make some in-game friends. Although, I've been seen a lot of unusual behavior that shouldn't be tolerated, and even if you report, they'll come back.
Some things I've seen personally-

• sharing personal information even though the game says you can't
• people using the game like Tinder
• discrimination
• vulgar roleplay
• people demonstrating adult practices and pointing them at children
• spammers
• using adult language and symbolism

As we may know, Dragon City has a lot of young children that play the game. I hope that this game can stay safe for the player base.

@dangerchicken212 I think that general chat should be removed.

Me too. Should be eliminated. Alliance chat is essential, general chat is nothing but a danger zone for minors.

@susan-mclaughlin said in The general/global chat + unusual practices being seen in the chat feature:

Me too. Should be eliminated. Alliance chat is essential, general chat is nothing but a danger zone for minors.

While I agree with you both if they eliminate it how will teams recruit?

@nynaevelan said in The general/global chat + unusual practices being seen in the chat feature:

@susan-mclaughlin said in The general/global chat + unusual practices being seen in the chat feature:

Me too. Should be eliminated. Alliance chat is essential, general chat is nothing but a danger zone for minors.

While I agree with you both if they eliminate it how will teams recruit?

Here on the forums.
And players can always search the alliances.
I am curious now about how many alliances and players actually use the general chat for recruitment.

@nynaevelan There is forum, discord, groups... many places to find an alliance if you search.

@bettina-löffler said in The general/global chat + unusual practices being seen in the chat feature:

@nynaevelan There is forum, discord, groups... many places to find an alliance if you search.

Yes but those are outside of the game, companies should not require users to look outside of a game for its features. Instead SP needs to step up and put some filters in place and improve the chat. Or add a feature where users can choose whether or not to close the global chat.

@nynaevelan ML removed the global chat? Or am I wrong?

@bettina-löffler said in The general/global chat + unusual practices being seen in the chat feature:

@nynaevelan ML removed the global chat? Or am I wrong?

Hmmm let me check....nope it's still there. In ML and DC I am terrible about checking alliance chat and I NEVER go to global, but then I am not a recruiter for either team so there is no need for me to use it.

@nynaevelan Oh. Ok. I thought they removed it there.

Hmm, it never actually occurred to me to use global chat to recruit members. I see your point about not needing to go outside the game. But I do use DCP Fb group and sometimes the forum.

@bettina-löffler mentioned all this when friends disappeared weeks ago. Not safe to add random strangers to your Facebook just to make island upgrades. SP dragon City have a lot to answer for. No prof shown it is a Facebook issue and time scale to fix is shocking . Personally I would not add any random people. With the way the world is nowadays to many scammers hackers and even worse out there. I've already added all my real Facebook friends to the game some. Have played some haven't some still play others don't. Don't see why iam punished for there decisions

I haven't seen anything in general chat that makes any sense. Just a lot of nonsense junk. When I was looking for a new alliance I used the forum.

They could turn the general chat into an invite list, where you make an invite to an alliance with a description. And of course, you could report the inviter if the description is inappropriate, or seems to be a scam.
I once had joined an alliance with some fellow players, only to figure out that the leader was acting NSFW like nobody would care... I'd told them multiple times to stop, and they didn't listen. I had to leave the alliance, and make my own.

I'm surprised that this post took notice, somehow.

@tony-foster said in The general/global chat + unusual practices being seen in the chat feature:

No prof shown it is a Facebook issue and time scale to fix is shocking

It is official stated that it is a Facebook issue. This is on Discord announcement channel: TheStrange_CM06/22/2020
Hey @everyone

We are aware that some of you are experiencing an issue with your Dragon City Friends List. While we are investigating this issue we are also aware that it is affecting many video-games right now and may not be related to Dragon City itself.
We will keep monitoring and investigating the issue.
In the meantime thank you for your patience and understanding.