Earwen1
Well-Known Member
In spite of the forum rules, concerning ideas and suggestions, this idea is not new.
On the contrary.
I repost it because it seems to be forgotten, just like the other idea thread about Notifications.
I also bring it back into memory because communication in-game and in Fellowships has become more important than ever. And because it seems that Inno does not see the urgency of this, there's fellowships that have chosen to use other, third party applications for communication.
Chat function
First priority should be the ingame chat function. To be honest: it is quite poor.
Rather than just adding a 'world chat' to this forum (which has been suggested before in other threads), I would propose an overhaul of the communication ingame. For example to use a proven tool like mIRC. For an example see here: https://www.mirc.com/ or see https://slack.com/ for an integrated example. In case anyone is afraid of abuse and players misbehaving in a general chat: it can be moderated.
Email
Tell us honestly whether you are going to collect all the ideas and work on them within a given time, OR else, if you are not willing to change anything on the communication tools, tell us too, so that we don't need to put more energy in writing posts to ask you about this. Then we could just close the discussions and do other things.
On the contrary.
I repost it because it seems to be forgotten, just like the other idea thread about Notifications.
I also bring it back into memory because communication in-game and in Fellowships has become more important than ever. And because it seems that Inno does not see the urgency of this, there's fellowships that have chosen to use other, third party applications for communication.
Chat function
First priority should be the ingame chat function. To be honest: it is quite poor.
- We can only read back 50 (?) posts. - After a working day, thats way too little in a very active FS.
- We can select and copy some lines, but just very little and only on browser.
- We cannot post url's. Oh wait, we can but with the domain name blanked out: **** As if we cannot type 'youtube' in the next line.
- We can use icons, but only with Win10 (as far as I have seen).
Rather than just adding a 'world chat' to this forum (which has been suggested before in other threads), I would propose an overhaul of the communication ingame. For example to use a proven tool like mIRC. For an example see here: https://www.mirc.com/ or see https://slack.com/ for an integrated example. In case anyone is afraid of abuse and players misbehaving in a general chat: it can be moderated.
- The same trouble with selecting lines to copy them and with blanked out url's to some domains appears here too. And a long thread of mails doesn't allow the reader to scroll back to the first email.
- The limitation to the lenght of posts is way too short. So writers need several succeeding posts to write their message.
- Mages and Archmages should have the option to close an email thread for reply,.
- The red mark on the enveloppe that shows us that new mails / answers have been posted, disappears as soon as 1 post has been read, This should only disappear when all emails have been read. In addition: we need a button to mark all mails 'read'.
Tell us honestly whether you are going to collect all the ideas and work on them within a given time, OR else, if you are not willing to change anything on the communication tools, tell us too, so that we don't need to put more energy in writing posts to ask you about this. Then we could just close the discussions and do other things.
