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Thu, 03/29/2012 - 05:11
Strypey's picture
Strypey

Hello fellow knights. Here's my suggestions, whether they're good or bad please post some Feedback. Thank you :)

We have Guild chat (/g) and we have whispers (/r /t). But how would everyone feel about Friend chat? (/f) A chat that went to everyone on your friends list? That or just Friend commands in the friend options like, help, Etc. Where a message like 'Hello, I need some assistance. Please /Tell me or join me if you're free. Thank you.' Would appear.

Multi-mails, as a Guild Master I know that this is a pain! If you have over 50 members but need to Mail them all the same thing you HAVE to send then the same mail individually and it gets quite tedious. How about a system where you can choose who the mail goes too? So you can send the same mail to everyone in the Guild at once.

Thanks for reading.

Thu, 03/29/2012 - 06:24
#1
Vanillateddy's picture
Vanillateddy
Yes..

Yes its been said and thought of many times but I think the that there might be problems with it, there may be some that don't want to receive spam from people who will constantly beg or do another sort of whining.. but its not a bad idea.

As for guild mail I don't see a problem with it as long as it is left to masters and officers.

Thu, 03/29/2012 - 07:48
#2
Asukalan's picture
Asukalan
Multi mail for guild master

Multi mail for guild master is great idea.

And friend chat could be covered with one of greatest idea on forum, behold....

TABBED CHAT:

Chat should be divided into separate tabs, not just one big river of guild/tells/general/zones/trades

There will be separate tab for all of those channels. Like in chatbox. You click General and you see just what ppl talk on the speaking distance (no other thngs). You switch to trade and you have plain trade offers WTS/WTB/WWT. You go to tab guild for guildies.

There could be even tabs for /tells so you will keep conversation with certain person in one place. It would also eliminate problem when multiple persons are telling to you and you constantly keep /reply to wrong peorons.

Also we should be able to expand chat window. When we are not doing clockwors and we are in game just to chat or to track trade channel looking for things we want it would be good if we would be able to expand chat window.

Currently its too smal and claustrophobic. It seems that devs assumed that only thing that will appear on chat is "xxx winks" "xxx waves" from preconfigured commands/animations.

If one wants to have real conversation, one chat piece can cover more than half of current chat window, and to go back in conversaion you have to click the hell out of that small "go up" button. Which leads to next point:

- chat should have scroolbar

This is just a simple sketch how it could look like. There would be a tab for every existing channel we have now, general, guild, trade and as well full chat for messages from all channels. Also you would be able to open chat channels to certain persons (instead of using constantly tells or reply - useful when making conversation with multiple ppl at once). Also there should be possibility to add custom chat tab like /join Player1, player2, player10,trade,guild to open a chat tab that would show tells from players 1,2,10 and also posts from guild chat and trade chat.

Every tab could be closed and opened again. Instead of current up/down buttons there would be a scroll bar to prevent clicking in order to reach top of chat window. If chat window would be scolled all the way down to newest msge, it would stay that way tracking newest chat pieces. If you would start scroling up, it would now move and it wont go to newest chat piece unless you will scroll it all way down back to newest chat.

Also the little arrow directed to upper right corner just under scroll bar would be and "expand chat" button. It would be for those that are not really intrested about what is happening in game, but rather what is happening on chat. It would double the size of chatbox or even make it full screen to make it that most of longest chat pieces would take just one line instead of taking whole chat space (which is happening now).

http://i39.tinypic.com/15oj6ah.png

I forgot to mention. The tab where you would recive a msg could blink somehow. It could be annoying for trade/general maybe guild chat but very helpful for multiple tell/private tabs opened. The appropriate tickbox for turning this on or off could be in settings/options.

Also the little tab with > arrow mark could be used to scroll tab bar, when you would have too much tabs opened to see them all at once.

Thu, 03/29/2012 - 14:25
#3
Severage's picture
Severage
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Guild Mail.

As for friends chat, we should have tabbed chat like Asukalan said. Tabbed chat is so much more useful than commands to change which chat you're in, and everything is crunched into one chatbox.

~Sev

Sat, 03/31/2012 - 05:33
#4
Hexzyle's picture
Hexzyle
Seeing as the chat system runs on IRC commands...

What about /join {channelname}?

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