Cleaning up Channel Numbers

If you’ve been playing for a a few years, you have probably accumulated several channel numbers which no longer work, yet you cannot leave. For example Good_Ranger, Good_Crafters, Level 80, etc.

One solution is to use /setchannelnumber old# new# to move the channel up to say 99 where it won’t bother you. This is what I did for a while.

There is also a channel number management program you can get at EQ2Interface.
But if you are handy with Notepad, just open your uisettings file. You are looking for

Server Name_Character Name_eq2_uisettings.xml

for example:

Butcherblock_Feldon_eq2_uisettings.xml

Inside this file you will find a section labeled ChatChannels. You can then remove channels as needed making sure to remove entire lines of text without leaving extra < and > characters.

<ChatChannels joined=”true” version=”2″>
<Channel index=”1″ name=”Level_10-19″ />
<Channel index=”2″ name=”Level_20-29″ />
<Channel index=”3″ name=”Level_30-39″ />
<Channel index=”4″ name=”Level_40-49″ />
<Channel index=”5″ name=”Level_50-59″ />
<Channel index=”6″ name=”Level_60-69″ />
<Channel index=”8″ name=”Level_80″ />
<Channel index=”9″ name=”90″ />
<Channel index=”10″ name=”Crafting” />
<Channel index=”11″ name=”Help” />
<Channel index=”12″ name=”Auction” />
<Channel index=”13″ name=”Newbie” />
<Channel index=”14″ name=”Good” />
<Channel index=”15″ name=”Ranger” />
</ChatChannels>