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Team chat in decrypto is really useful when trying to work out what is going on, but sometimes you want to get input from others in the team who don't have to make moves. It would ideal if there was a way to page a user (in your team only) to look at team chat and comment there.

Regarding turned based games I agree with needing something here, especially when you think a player has misspelled a word, you don't want to post in the general chat as that would alert the other team. But if you comment in team chat the player who left the clue wont see it until it is there turn and by then its too late.

Can't you just send that user a chat message? That covers what you're asking for, right? It pages that user directly.

You can, but not everyone appreciates that.

Won't your suggerted paging system suffer from the same drawback, then?

Yes/no depends upon the person. Messaging them outside the game is disconnected from the team chat in game which is where you want them to reply. Was hoping there would be a way to include it in the game state like advancing to the next game (where it is your turn), but it is just requesting your commentary in the game.

Again just an idea.... the game devs might have a better idea or option, but without discussion it won't happen

You've started a discussion, so mission accomplished.

Unfortunately, this is as far as the idea will go. I'm a game dev, so I can tell you:
1) This is virtually identical to the messaging system that is already in place, which you can already use
and
2) Even if you disagree, as game developers we have no way to affect the site outside of the game itself, so there's nothing we can do to page anyone.