Confederation Chat
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Category: Miscellaneous
Forum Name: Suggestions & Game Enhancements
Forum Description: Got a great idea? A feature you'd like to see? Share it here!
URL: http://forum.illyriad.co.uk/forum_posts.asp?TID=6670
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Topic: Confederation Chat
Posted By: Carbonara
Subject: Confederation Chat
Date Posted: 08 Nov 2015 at 11:30
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Okay, so currently I assume there is a screen where my alliance leader (or people he/she has given the privilege too?) can start/cancel confederations with other alliances. I would suggest a button be added to that screen (for each and every alliance we are confederated with) that would toggle yes/no for "Allow communication with this alliance" The alliance in question (the one other than my own) would then be able to also toggle this to 'yes' and if both alliances have this option set to yes, then a new confederation chat window would be available to every single member of both alliances for inter-alliance communication :) Please post here whether you think this is a good/bad idea. |
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Posted By: Sasuke
Date Posted: 08 Nov 2015 at 11:55
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Actually , i agree. It would be a great addition the the game. I was thinking about it a while ago. Many alliance's leader Send their Alternate account to the sister alliance to communicate or have to bear pain in typing IGM to start conversation. This way , war alliance's can communicate with Conf alliance to defend or reinforce them faster , rather than wait for reply of their IGM :P |
Posted By: Osu
Date Posted: 08 Nov 2015 at 12:32
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A nice idea in theory, but with the problem of multiple confeds. Say, for instance, that alliance A was confed with alliance B and alliance C, but alliance B and alliance C were not confeds. In this case someone in alliance A could be chatting with someone in alliance B, however someone in alliance C would only see the alliance A posts and would therefore not have a scooby-do what was going on. You could always have a coalition chat, where multiple alliances could join in, but I believe many super-confeds already have externally hosted chat-rooms for this purpose.
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Posted By: Carbonara
Date Posted: 08 Nov 2015 at 12:43
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Yes, if you were to have more than 2 alliances per chat window, that would be the problem. (eg. alliance A and B are allied.. and alliance C is allied with B but not A..) if you were to have all 3 in the one chat, it wouldn't work) However if you limited it to 2 alliances per confederation chat window, you could have a chat window for each confederation (2 alliances per chat), which would work :) |
Posted By: Carbonara
Date Posted: 08 Nov 2015 at 13:11
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I guess you could also have a drop down menu (a combo box type thing) which lists alliances that are confederated with every alliance currently in the chat. Leaders from each alliance (or players who have been assigned the privilege to do so) could then suggest that another alliance be invited to the chat, and leaders (players with the privilege) from the remaining alliances could either click "accept" or "decline" from a popup box. Maybe this could be extended to include NAP alliances. Although I don't necessarily feel that you would need more than 2 alliances per confederation chat, there is always this combo box option :) |
Posted By: abstractdream
Date Posted: 08 Nov 2015 at 15:18
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External chat does this very well already. I think this would clutter the screen and cause trouble for under-cautious alliances. ------------- |
Posted By: Carbonara
Date Posted: 08 Nov 2015 at 20:10
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Being part of a training alliance, it would be nice for some of us newer players to be able to talk to the more experienced players of our sister alliance, or to chat with players in any of the alliances that we are confederated with. Its kind of sad that we remain strangers to the alliances that we are confederated with, and that there is no way for us to get to know our confederation allies in-game outside of Global Chat (or privately messaging each player in the confederate alliances and introducing ourselves that way? ..makes no sense) You couldn't really discuss strategy in Global Chat without giving away sensitive information, and external chat to me seems counter-intuitive, because you have to leave the game window and therefore can't do any of the normal in-game things such as working on your cities or looking for settlement spots on the world map, equipping your armies, crafting or planning trades, etc. while still being able to converse with your allies or confederates.. There must be a way to do this! (without having to rent a teamspeak/ventrilo server) surely 'clutter' isn't the only thing holding us back from a confederation chat? |
Posted By: Ashleigh Jayne
Date Posted: 08 Nov 2015 at 20:23
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I like the idea! It would be an easy way to get to know those in supporting alliances, and help to build stronger working relationships. ------------- ^^^ Ashleigh Jayne (AKA) AJJ |
Posted By: OrcDork
Date Posted: 08 Nov 2015 at 20:23
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I think this is a great idea, I think it could even be extended to any 2 or more alliances (regardless of affiliation). If they wish to communicate, for however long, they can send a request and if the other alliance accepts, an inter-alliance chat window should be available to them. Until which time either of the 2 terminate the option. |
Posted By: JohnDoe
Date Posted: 08 Nov 2015 at 20:31
+1 for the idea and Carbonara 
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Posted By: zap
Date Posted: 08 Nov 2015 at 20:37
| + another one for this idea |