A Chat survey.

[Mawerick]

I'm in the progress of creating a new chat client for AO, intended to replace AORC+ and others.
This post is intended to figure out what people want from a chat client.

So...
What features would you want to see in a chat client?

[Eleanore69]

First of all being able to delete permanently the Omni/Neutral/Clan Trade chanel without always having to disable them each time you launch your AO chat.

[Mawerick]

Channel muting is next on my todo list

[Ashval]

One that doesn't lock up trying to load a friends list 50 percent of the time would be a big improvement.

[Mawerick]

Well, given the way the AO server sends the friends list, that might be hard

(It sends one "Buddy update packet" for every entry in the up-to-1000-friends at a time. Also, I dont' have that many in my friends list for various chars loging on/off all the time to actually test this...)

[Shigy]

Something that could bring up whispers in a seperate window would be awesome

[Mawerick]

what the heck are "whispers"?

[Shigy]

Tells...private messages...bahh I get confused between my games

[Mawerick]

Shame on you! Shame!!

[Mementh]

Cool sounds would be great with it too

[Shigy]

Sounds would be good. And the option to turn them off.

[Mawerick]

What kind of sounds?

[Shigy]

I don't know about mementh but for me personally the option to have a sound alert on tells and other specified groups when a message is sent in them. So if its a bit quite (chat wise not noise wise) you could have an alert on and minimise the program while you do something else till you here it.

[Mawerick]

Hmm.... interesting....

Not sure I'll have that in the initial release, but it's definitely something to work on for later

(btw, just got channel muting working. now to add player ignore... )

[Mementh]

Yeah im with shigy on this. Thats the sort of sounds i was talking about.

[Eleanore69]

Or instead of sounds (or both) once you send and receive a pm from someone, it could be interresting to see the name of the person lighting, you know what I mean? bipping with a very low light. Or just changing that green online/red offline button in another color wen you receive a msg from a certain person.

That way you can look at your friend/recent list to see if something is bipping or not instead of opening a received pm window to see if you missed any tells. Not sure if you understood ;p my english can be terrible.