[quote=@Crowvette]
<Snipped quote by KillamriX88>

I just prefer to keep the amount of chats I'm subscribed to at a minimum. It's not really anything that serious, I was just wondering if I could get by without it.
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RoflsMazory has indicated in the Discord that the separate chats were going to be very important later on... My guess is that each faction is going to have story elements that the players from the other factions can't/shouldn't know about. There is of course the increased ease of coming up with plans and character interactions.