Just thought I'd clarify: General chat is not completely useless, for it can be used in personal maps and only that. So say you or a friend made a map for a rp and you went to it, that would mean that you and the people in that map can use general chat which works like group and whisper however it cannot work from different maps, you all must be present in the same map for general to be visible to you. General is only deactivated when in a public map like Fluorite or Bonfire (Lagfire I call it), so if you were to try saying something in general it would appear as local.