Is there a way to limit local chat to a parcel?

[Tom Marten]

I'm trying to find out if there is a way to limit local chat to a single parcel.  I run a club and it is big, so the hosts use a tool to repeat their local chat as a shout.  The problem is that it is spilling over onto my neighbor's property.  So is there a way to limit local chat to my parcel only?  And a related question, is there a way that I can increase the range of chat that isn't shouted.

Any help would be appreciated.

 

Tom Marten

[Venus Petrov]

Yes, you can limit the parcel's music, gesture, object sounds, and voice to the parcel by going to About Land, Audio and ticking the appropriate boxes.

[Dora Gustafson]

Typed chat can not be limited to a parcel or region.
Whisper is heard within a radius of 10m
Say is heard within a radius of 20m
Shout is heard within a radius of 100m

Typed chat can be relayed by scripted prims.
This way the range can be increased.

[Peewee Musytari]

For typed chat the only way around it, apart from not shouting, would be for your neighbour to mute the shouters or for you to move out of the 100m range, possibly up into the sky.

[Ceera Murakami]

It is nice to see a club owner honestly concerned about the impact their club has on their neighbors. Well done for you, to express that concern! The best solution in your case would be to move the club way up in the sky, so you're at least 100M (preferably at least 250 M) away from anyone else's inhabited buildings, skyboxes, or terrain surface.

This benefits your club and your patrons, because lag will be less for you and your patrons, and you'll have fewer complaints from neighbors.

This benefits your neighbors, because they won't hear your patrons text chat, whispers, say or shout, or their gestures, or their voice chat. They will also benefit from reduced lag, because your club and its scripts and patrons won't be close enough to affect them.

The one disadvantage of moving an established club into the sky is that people following an outdated landmark to the ground location may think the club no longer exists. The solution there is to put a simple, low-prim 'Lobby' at the old landmark site, with a teleporter to take them to the new sky location.