Yes, it's a piggyback suggestion, but what about making the different channels different colors? Keep the blue for cabals, but make clans cyan, factions gold and the newbie channel dark red? Or something similar.
I think it certainly would help to (besides the channel name to the left) instantly identify which channel the message was sent form.
+1 dont care what color just think it would be cool for it to be different colors
I actually like this....
I play with a dark blue screen with blue text. Don't mess with the system!
Electric eye-melt blue as default. Just for Aulian. For no reason.
This is terrible...
Used to something for so many years and then its completely different.. I don't like it.
Why fix what isn't broken. Pay attention and you can clearly tell what faction/clan is talking.
Just a test, guys. If you are against change to this degree, I'll change it back. This isn't a huge thing to be worried about.
Yells and clan chat are like the same now, very little shade diff on the same color.
-1 on color change idea.
Ohh, I like different colors for different lines. I can "code" those myself too actually, via zmud color triggers 
Why fix what isn't broken. Pay attention and you can clearly tell what faction/clan is talking.
It's not a fix. It's a modification. While yes, if you pay attention, you can clearly tell what faction/clan/cabal is talking, but that wasn't the point of the suggestion. It's yet another way to instantly tell which channel is talking. Complimentary even. There's been more than one occasion where I've typed into the wrong channel because of the same Ocular Call Lightning blue across the three channels, regardless as to how attentive I am. And I know I'm not the only one. It's not like it was a suggestion to remove steal and pry from thieves, or readdressing the mechanics behind them.
Yells and clan chat are like the same now, very little shade diff on the same color.
-1 on color change idea.
Yes, the bright cyan of the faction is similar to the dark cyan of the yells. There are only so many base colors that can be used when coloring in the MUD. Eight to be exact. Sixteen if you count light vs dark. But there's still enough of a difference that you can distinguish them from each other.
Unless you're colorblind. Then I retract my statement.
That being said, I'm not overly sure about the bright yellow for faction. I was thinking something darker like the gold (or brown, if you prefer) or perhaps purple instead. It may get confused with says with it being bright yellow and that would be counter to the suggestion in the first place.
Ohh, I like different colors for different lines. I can "code" those myself too actually, via zmud color triggers
Yes you can. I use color triggers extensively, but would rather not use a trigger if I don't have to. And not everyone has the ability to color words or lines through their client.