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A Chat survey.
Posted:
Sun May 03, 2009 3:06 amby 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?
Posted:
Sun May 03, 2009 3:10 amby 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.
Posted:
Sun May 03, 2009 3:17 amby Mawerick
Channel muting is next on my todo list
Posted:
Sun May 03, 2009 3:24 amby Ashval
One that doesn't lock up trying to load a friends list 50 percent of the time would be a big improvement.
Posted:
Sun May 03, 2009 3:39 amby 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...)
Posted:
Sun May 03, 2009 3:46 amby Shigy
Something that could bring up whispers in a seperate window would be awesome
Posted:
Sun May 03, 2009 3:51 amby Mawerick
what the heck are "whispers"?
Posted:
Sun May 03, 2009 4:14 amby Shigy
Tells...private messages...bahh I get confused between my games
Posted:
Sun May 03, 2009 4:16 amby Mawerick
Shame on you! Shame!!
Posted:
Sun May 03, 2009 4:58 amby Mementh
Cool sounds would be great with it too
Posted:
Sun May 03, 2009 5:05 amby Shigy
Sounds would be good. And the option to turn them off.
Posted:
Sun May 03, 2009 5:17 amby Mawerick
What kind of sounds?
Posted:
Sun May 03, 2009 6:05 amby 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.
Posted:
Sun May 03, 2009 7:20 amby 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...
)
Posted:
Sun May 03, 2009 10:08 amby Mementh
Yeah im with shigy on this. Thats the sort of sounds i was talking about.
Posted:
Sun May 03, 2009 3:09 pmby 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.