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Discussion in 'Suggestions / Ideas' started by 10askinsw, March 8, 2012.

  1. 10askinsw

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    Ok, so, this is a simple idea. My idea is to let town mayors change:
    Who can speak in town chat.
    Town chat colour.
    Toggle town chat censoring.
    Town chat mutes.
    Change whether the the titles before and after your name are the current town chat ones, nothing or the normal chat ones.
    Town MOTD
    Toggle the colour of the "mayor" and "assistant" tags.

    And let mayors use /tm. Basically town announcements, like /gm.

    Please leave a response and add whatever you want to it, cos I mainly want to know what you think of this.

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    This was my 400th post. :D
     
    10askinsw, March 8, 2012
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  2. Realm1121

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    once upon a time /tc could use color codes although i think its been removed/fixed the allowing who can use town chat seems dumb everyone should be allowed. Changing the color seems interesting but blue is plenty easy to catch with the eye. Censor's are required for a pg server you asking to see what people say means you cuss to much in chat and can be banned for that fyi. Titles are earned from classes, donations, and staff, and in /tc town rank and class only show (idk bout staff) although maybe a /r et (edit-titles) remove or add (d=donation, s=staff, c=class). /r et ? to get instructions.
     
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    Why would you want to block people from talking in town chat? Doesn't that defeat the purpose of having your isolated community? I'm not really a fan of this feature. If you dislike your townmates that much then either move, or get rid of the crappy citizen.

    As for the username titles... those are very annoying. They're quite lengthy and way too colorful. It causes the chat to look much too cluttered and difficult to easily pan your eyes to the actual chat content. I'd like to see tags removed from all chat messages except for when an admin/mod speaks. (and then keep it down to a single colored letter .. either a blue M or a green A.. or something short like that, but still intuitive as to their significance).

    I like the idea of having a town MOTD. This allows announcements to be easily publicized without relying on the townsfolk to check the town's message board wall. I presume that not all citizens check the wall each day and would thus miss out on important announcements.
     
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    Ah, I have seen that on some servers, they are good, but hard to understand when you first come on the server.
     
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    Fair enough. a compromise would be a blue MOD and a green ADM. or i guess admin can be special enough to get a full spelling of the word :p I guess my main point of that statement was that, currently, i consider the chat to be cluttered to a fault.

    EDIT: Additionally, I don't think that donations should entitle the user to have a special tag in chat. Just because i have extra money that i can donate doesn't mean that i should be put on a pedestal above other people. Especially when a significant portion of the population is too young to truly have disposable income. Donating shouldn't make my voice count any higher than anyone else's.
     
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    I really like a town announcements chat. This would be helpful in large towns like BuenaVista.
    Also town mutes are cool, I wouldn't want to have to kick someone because they aren't following chat rules.
    Additionally, I think it would be nice to have a Mayor's name to stand out. Just like ImDeity and the other staff have colored tags, mayors/assistants should have the same. This way, their chat won't get lost in the regular town chatter. But the latter is no excuese for no town announcements channel :).

    A MOTD is cool, but that is kinda what /t spawn is for. When you /t spawn, it shows you the board message. Now to have a timed message the plays in the town announcements channel would be awesome.
    Thanks for the wonderful ideas!
     
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    Ah, I did have BV in mind when thinking of that.
     
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    Sorry to post right after another of my posts, but, a question. Would you say the chat prefixes ARE too long? I think mine are, but most other people's are ok.
     
    10askinsw, March 9, 2012
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  9. iSquared

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    Who can speak in town chat.
    -> No, the reason of town chat is that people in towns can communicate w/ each other.

    Town chat colour
    -> No, this seems pretty cool, but every town chat has to be the same colour (has to do with the config file). They can not be edited seperately.

    Toggle town chat censoring.
    -> Swearing isn't allowed ANYWHERE. So why in town chat?

    Town chat mutes.
    -> Might be a good idea, however hard to implement.

    Change whether the the titles before and after your name are the current town chat ones, nothing or the normal chat ones.
    -> ???

    Town MOTD
    -> There is one: /t set board <text> (I think)

    Toggle the colour of the "mayor" and "assistant" tags.
    -> Naah. Useless.
     
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  10. 10askinsw

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    I mean one that shows up every now and then. Now just when you spawn at the town and use /t.
     
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    Here are mine:
    [g][Sponsor]btarb24[Laborer]:
    [Altinum] Assistant btarb24:

    I don't think anyone needs to know i'm a sponsor. Especially not in super bright purple letters. Same goes with laborer -- the global chat doesn't need to know my class. If they do have a situation where they want to know, then they can just do a /r to discover it (likely rare though).

    As i'm sitting here watching chat, another long example is Gwen: Hers has 5 total colors (names/channels are shades of gray):
    [h][Companion][Mod]Gwenhywar[Vendor]:

    Possible improvements:
      • Make the colors more subdued to be less attention grabbing (except for Mod)
        • why is it that the person's class is a brighter color than their name? shouldn't the name be more important than the class?
      • eliminate the class tags from the chat and let people use /r
      • name all players have padding so that everyone's message starts on the same vertical column. While i think this would be best if we also go rid of the majority of tags, it is a possible way to increase readability within chat.
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    [g]        [Sponsor]btarb24[Laborer]: some test message
[g]              longUserName[Noble]: here is my test message
[g][Companion][Mod]Gwenhywar[Vendor]: another message
[g]                      short[Lord]: my name is shorter
     
    btarb24, March 9, 2012
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    i agree with him let them change it.
     
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    umm probably too hard and would require a mod to the client but...
    [G][+][+]Realm1121 Shorter and color coated so people get an idea of a persons status by the color markings
    [Admin]Red Admin
    [Mod]Blue Staff
    [++++]idk varients for all the donation packages
    [+++] Classes
     
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    town chat seems to be the only channel swearing is not censored, not that i care either way but some towns might want to censor it.

    the town mute is a good idea imo, sometimes kids get really annoying or someone is drunk or something, rarelly gets too bad but once in a while.
     
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    My town does but we don't have the means to do it :(
     
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    Town mute sounds like a good idea. Maybe make it like a 2 hour mute from town chat, or something ephemeral like that. As for the titles, I think chat is cluttered as is, and titles as they are should be cut down a bit anyways.
     
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    Then (if this was implamented) you could make it so town chat has no titles.
     
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    I have to disagree with your reasoning. If a town wishes to authorise the use of swearing, then it is down to them. As long as it's kept within their town, and town chat, and isn't in server-wide channels e.g. [G], [Help] and [Trade], then it's fine.

    As for the ideas, they are pretty cool in theory, but implementation is another thing entirely. I also have to agree with a few of the other posters on here. If I could, I would toggle tags and etcetera to off, the entire channels are a complete mess.
     
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