Player Associations Archive
Thread: Guild chat access proposal
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Xeovar
Fri Jan 21, 2005 3:45 am
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Not entirely sure if thats right forum, as this is more or less chat related, but as there are no chat systems forums, PA one sounds good 
Introduction
First, I might be wrong, but from various hints around forums and simple playing the game, I have drawn following conclusions:
1) chat (comm) servers are separate from game servers
2) chat servers are based on protocol similar to IRC (base internet chat protocol)
Idea(s)
Well there are two ideas actually.
a) guild channel bots - there are many IRC bots available, so my assumption is that wouldnt be hard to implement if the assumption 2) is correct (as far as MMORPGs go, AO has bots in guild channels). What would such bot do ?:
- notify about guild member logging on/off
- be able to tell when certain guild member was last seen on
- handle topic, news and other guild communications
- allow access to guild channel from characters not guilded/on other servers - provided you are allowed to
- possibly notify about bases being under attack, etc
b) access to guild chat from outside the game - I would LOVE to be able to log into my guild chat using (for example) and IRC client and connecting to a specified server (requiring authorization). That would be IMHO great for keeping in touch with friends if you can't log in the game
This is not really core game related, so my hope is Dev Team have a few spare manhours to at least think about it
Introduction
First, I might be wrong, but from various hints around forums and simple playing the game, I have drawn following conclusions:
1) chat (comm) servers are separate from game servers
2) chat servers are based on protocol similar to IRC (base internet chat protocol)
Idea(s)
Well there are two ideas actually.
a) guild channel bots - there are many IRC bots available, so my assumption is that wouldnt be hard to implement if the assumption 2) is correct (as far as MMORPGs go, AO has bots in guild channels). What would such bot do ?:
- notify about guild member logging on/off
- be able to tell when certain guild member was last seen on
- handle topic, news and other guild communications
- allow access to guild channel from characters not guilded/on other servers - provided you are allowed to
- possibly notify about bases being under attack, etc
b) access to guild chat from outside the game - I would LOVE to be able to log into my guild chat using (for example) and IRC client and connecting to a specified server (requiring authorization). That would be IMHO great for keeping in touch with friends if you can't log in the game
This is not really core game related, so my hope is Dev Team have a few spare manhours to at least think about it
Stena
Fri Jan 21, 2005 4:04 am
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Xeovar wrote:
b) access to guild chat from outside the game - I would LOVE to be able to log into my guild chat using (for example) and IRC client and connecting to a specified server (requiring authorization). That would be IMHO great for keeping in touch with friends if you can't log in the game
This is not really core game related, so my hope is Dev Team have a few spare manhours to at least think about it
Aye, you can do that in EQ II if im not mistaken and i'm also sure i read somewhere in a dev post that they are thinking of doing this.
There is a post on this forum as well about diffrent games guild stuff, i reccommend you read it as it has a lot of good stuff in it, nice ideas though.
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