One of the most fun-sapping elements of the game currently is having to continually split crews to fill cities/districts and losing the quick chat function.

We were combatting that by using H chat, but now we've lost the remainder to LA, this is also not an option. 

Could there be a custom chat option created to facilitate cross-city chats? In my crew settings, I have to select a crew channel, I'm not entirely sure where this goes. Could it be possible for leaders to nominate a channel here which creates a "custom" tab at the bottom of the game and multiple leaders can use this same channel if they so choose with it also being created in Lounge, thereby circumventing the loss of crew and home city chat options within the game and lounge?

Basically Si misses my general hilarity and is already bored of Gneiss, both of which are entirely understandable problems

+1

I actually went down this path recently and set up an IRC channel for PHI/NY, but I realized I didn’t want the ongoing overhead of inviting people or repeatedly telling them to join. Having something similar to the existing auto-join channels, except with the ability to selectively include specific cities or districts, would be a huge improvement.