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Announcement 18APR - Ingame Communications: Chat

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Topic: Announcement 18APR - Ingame Communications: Chat

Posted By: GM Stormcrow
Subject: Announcement 18APR - Ingame Communications: Chat
Date Posted: 18 Apr 2010 at 13:20

INGAME COMMUNICATIONS

Hi all,

We've put live an optional, ingame, serverwide, global chat facility.

You can drag and resize the chat window as you please, and close it if you prefer not to have chat open.

If you wish to close it, please click on the cross in the top right corner of the Chat Window.

If you close chat, you can open it again by clicking on the "Options" text in the top left corner of the Illyriad game interface, underneath the Illyriad logo, and select "View Chat". Check the "Active" box next to the channel you wish to join (there is only Global at the moment) and press the Change button.

This Chat Channels page will - in the fullness of time - list all the channels of which you are a member or have access to, and will also be where you create and administer your own channel.

Please be aware of the following:

The Illyriad Terms & Conditions apply to chats
You are specifically pointed towards the rules regarding abusive behaviour
Moderators and GMs may not always be available in chatrooms to enforce chat standards, however players may report conversations that break the Illyriad Terms & Conditions to the GMs. To do this, simply click on the Playername next to the post that you wish to report and select "Report Abuse"
Please be aware that we will not take kindly to frivolous abuse reports

This chatroom is the first step in increased communication facilities inside the game.

UPCOMING FEATURES INCLUDE

New Player Help channel
A specific chatroom for new players, called "New Player Help", into which all new players will be placed for their first couple of weeks in Illyriad.
Alliance chatroom channels
New roles will be added to the Alliance Roles management screen for appointing administrators and moderators
Private channels and invite-only channels
So players can talk directly to one another ingame, or form specific chatrooms for specific purposes. In these chatrooms the creator of the chatroom will be the administrator.

Enhanced Functionality
- "Block/Unblock" player function, so you can ignore people you don't want to hear from
- Emotes of the "/me smiles happily" type
- Some Formatting (bold, italic) + font size adjustment
- Some BBcode-style functions for linking names, locations etc
- MOTD (Message Of The Day) function
Alliance Forums
A cut-down version of the public forums, for alliances to use internally and externally.

Alliances will be able to create their own subforums, and set permissions on these to be:

Public access (for eg an Alliance guestbook, Diplomatic overtures etc),
Alliance only access (for eg Alliance operations, planning etc), and
Invite-only access (for eg specific Alliance groupings, such as a 'War Council')

Revamp of the Mail System
As per http://forum.illyriad.co.uk/email-interface_topic155.html - this thread here .

We hope you like this enhancement to ingame communication.

Best wishes,

GM Stormcrow

Replies:

Posted By: Wuzzel
Date Posted: 18 Apr 2010 at 16:21

I like it indeed.
Cant wait.

Nice work SC / TC and others Heart

Posted By: Llyorn Of Jaensch
Date Posted: 18 Apr 2010 at 16:25

Great work SC. Love the game and the regular updates, this being a stellar. Kudos guys.

Posted By: GM Stormcrow
Date Posted: 18 Apr 2010 at 16:38

Thanks Julian. Although all the credit goes to GM ThunderCat, whose baby this is. I just keep on adding things to the feature list - much to his annoyance. Smile

Posted By: Wuzzel
Date Posted: 18 Apr 2010 at 16:43

Make TC work and sweat! Evil Smile

Posted By: MFrance
Date Posted: 18 Apr 2010 at 16:48

Annoy him .. annoy him ! we love him!

Posted By: Wuzzel
Date Posted: 18 Apr 2010 at 17:01

Some suggestions about the chat:

Maybe add an option to see how many people are in the chat.
Also make an active list of people who were just talking for the last 10 minutes.
And how many are afk not talking for 10 minutes.

A chat userlist as in IRC.
For easy private chat.

A way to minimize the chat.

Alliance tags.

Also i find it annoying when i type something and hit enter, the cursor disappears from the chat.
I have to manual click the chat again to type more.

EDIT:
More things:

- Fluffy said autocomplete in names.
- Clickable names, like rightclick to view information, etc etc
- Button to report people.
- When someone highlights your name, it should flash and/or make sound. Same with a PM.

Posted By: waylander69
Date Posted: 18 Apr 2010 at 18:31

good work on the chat and all the other upgrades

Posted By: Izzy
Date Posted: 18 Apr 2010 at 23:38

Damn, you can even move the chat thing around. That's some epic coding right there. :o

Posted By: QdarX
Date Posted: 19 Apr 2010 at 01:27

love it :D

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Posted By: Wuzzel
Date Posted: 19 Apr 2010 at 11:41

Want to add some more.

Able to ignore people.
Flood protection.
Clickable hyperlinks.

EDIT:
Stats about the chat.
Who is the most active / typed the most / asked the most question / etc etc :)

EDIT2:
Emoticons, moving and still emoticons.
Mmm avatars of what species/race everyone is.