Right now I can see NPC text spam too far away. I can, for example, hear the two guards patrolling in the main city from the docks. I can hear Ishamashell from the initial starting location after character creation. I can hear the two guards arguing about the charmed female orc from out on the beach where the first orc attack occurs. By "hear", of course, I mean my chat log is filled with text spam.
If they don't fix that, and then they make the additional mistake of setting voice to the same range, then yes.. an existing problem will only be made worse. Both voice audio and text need to be tuned to the appropriate range.
I agree. The chat log is full of conversations from NPC's who are 30 meters away, when the "hearing" range on the inventory screen says my hearing range is like "12 meters". This should be fixed, because it makes the chat log very cluttered.
