Politician Archive
Thread: City Chat is a Must!
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Mashor
Wed Feb 04, 2004 6:13 pm
#1
We really need some centralized way of communicating with city residents. The city that I am in has 3 different PA's in it which makes communication very difficult. That's not even mentioning the residents of the city that don't belong to any of the PA's.
I have seen lots of others put this on their wish lists, but I have yet to see any feedback from SOE. Am I missing something? This seems like a must for player cities, and I am relatively surprised that this wasn't in from the beginning.
Mashor, Valcyn
Newton13
Wed Feb 04, 2004 8:10 pm
#2
"citizens" is the best way of mass communciation, IMO... there are 4 PAs represented in our city. If I need to make a mass announcement, I go "citizens" ... if there are issues that are with particular guilds, or if I need to investigate a problem, I will address the guild leaders (so they can disseminate information via "guild").
We've got a system...
Don't really need "city chat" per se.
vonbloodworth
Wed Feb 04, 2004 8:53 pm
#3
yes we do need a chat...citizen is good...but a chat is also needed
Raii
Thu Feb 05, 2004 12:50 am
#4
make a city chat from your spatial tabs, make an email to all your 'citizens' explaining how to join the channel. Just remember to reset the channel after server up!
Marcalus
Thu Feb 05, 2004 8:04 am
#5
Mashor wrote:
We really need some centralized way of communicating with city residents. The city that I am in has 3 different PA's in it which makes communication very difficult. That's not even mentioning the residents of the city that don't belong to any of the PA's.
I have seen lots of others put this on their wish lists, but I have yet to see any feedback from SOE. Am I missing something? This seems like a must for player cities, and I am relatively surprised that this wasn't in from the beginning.
Mashor, Valcyn
It is a must.
It's a good thing that Galdor has had a city chat for several weeks now. We DO find it very handy. (with 2 guilds plus a non-trivial unguilded population)
In fact, several people have stumbled into it (it's public and unmoderated) and have joined the city based on meeting us via this channel.
Yes, an auto city chat WOULD be nice. But the tools are already there so that a minimal amount of effort will reward you.
Trean
Thu Feb 05, 2004 11:22 am
#6
We create a chat manually for my city which involves four PAs and some non-guilded. Its truly a pain in the ass.
Definately a must!
Aylish
Thu Feb 05, 2004 1:06 pm
#8
My city has a chat channel set up in the same place every day just after server reset (a number of citizens are in Australia so server maintenance is in our evening - prime playing time), and a number of citizens do use it.We even have a few regulars that hang out in there and aren't even part of the city! Being made up of 5, soon to be 6, guilds and numerous unguilded citizens, some form of open communication like this chat channel really helps.
I have a pile of standard emails I send to every new resident, and one of these lets people know about the chat and how to use it.
I also have an alias set up personally that logs me into the city chat, refreshes my guild chat (if I have relogged or changed characters, guildchat usually fails to auto-load, this alias refreshes that), and turns chat logging on (just in case!). So when I log on all I have to do is type /chats, and I'm ready to talk.
Takes awhile for otherpeople to get used to logging into it though, and an automatic citychat channel, much like guild chat,would be good.
Citizen mail is also a good way for mayors to pass out information, but isn't the same kind of community-building tool that a chat channel can be.
DaQuilla
Thu Feb 05, 2004 1:19 pm
#9
Well ... there is a dev-response .. or at least one from Thunderheart:
Thunderheart worte:
Also, another big request is "Player City Chat"....
What players can do in-game right now as “city chat” is:
City members can fly their cursor over the chat window and right click.
Select “Join Chat Channel”
Give your chat room a name (Like “Mos Eisely Chat or what ever your city name is)
Give your chat room a title (mychat, citychat, etc)
Select “Private” and/or “Moderated” and click “ok”
Then instruct all of your players to:
/chatroom join
Also, whenever you need to know the commands, type /chatr and the list of commands will come up.
HERE
And here's my Chat-Makro Tip:
City Chat
Create a simple Macro to create and join a public or even privat chat that even has a Message that can be used as "Message of the Day" ...
/chat create SWG.Gorath.Chat.KC 0 1 "\#3399ffKheraba-City.de \#ffffff- Big Event in Cantina today";
/pause 1;
/chat join SWG.Gorath.Chat.KC;
... for a public chat - and for private:
/chat create SWG.Gorath.Chat.KC 0 0 "\#3399ffKheraba-City.de \#ffffff- City Members Only";
/pause 1;
/chat join SWG.Gorath.Chat.KC;
/chat invite PlayerName01 SWG.Gorath.KC;
/chat invite PlayerName02 SWG.Gorath.KC;
/chat invite PlayerName03 SWG.Gorath.KC;
...
Thunderheart worte:
Also, another big request is "Player City Chat"....
What players can do in-game right now as “city chat” is:
City members can fly their cursor over the chat window and right click.
Select “Join Chat Channel”
Give your chat room a name (Like “Mos Eisely Chat or what ever your city name is)
Give your chat room a title (mychat, citychat, etc)
Select “Private” and/or “Moderated” and click “ok”
Then instruct all of your players to:
/chatroom join
Also, whenever you need to know the commands, type /chatr and the list of commands will come up.
HERE
And here's my Chat-Makro Tip:
City Chat
Create a simple Macro to create and join a public or even privat chat that even has a Message that can be used as "Message of the Day" ...
/chat create SWG.Gorath.Chat.KC 0 1 "\#3399ffKheraba-City.de \#ffffff- Big Event in Cantina today";
/pause 1;
/chat join SWG.Gorath.Chat.KC;
... for a public chat - and for private:
/chat create SWG.Gorath.Chat.KC 0 0 "\#3399ffKheraba-City.de \#ffffff- City Members Only";
/pause 1;
/chat join SWG.Gorath.Chat.KC;
/chat invite PlayerName01 SWG.Gorath.KC;
/chat invite PlayerName02 SWG.Gorath.KC;
/chat invite PlayerName03 SWG.Gorath.KC;
...
Mashor
Thu Feb 05, 2004 10:26 pm
#10
Thanks for the info on the macro. One thing I would like to know how to do is add the chat channel to the spatial window through a macro as well. I think it would make this process run a whole lot smoother, and make the citizens more willing to participate if I could email a macro to everyone and just ask them to run it when they log in. I have looked around a bit (checked the macro bible site), but have been unable to come up with anyting.
Thanks for the help,
Mashor, Valcyn, SDC, Shadowdale
DaQuilla
Fri Feb 06, 2004 1:45 pm
#12
Mashor ...
I only had to add the City Chat to my spatial once (but manualy using the right click "modify" feature on the spatial chat tab). But you have to keep the same chat tab for your city chat, so when executing the macro you have to be in the old chat tab where the city chat was before. But you easily get there by pressing ctrl+end or ctrl+home.
A macro for this would however be very nice.
Oh ... where is this macro bible site?
I only had to add the City Chat to my spatial once (but manualy using the right click "modify" feature on the spatial chat tab). But you have to keep the same chat tab for your city chat, so when executing the macro you have to be in the old chat tab where the city chat was before. But you easily get there by pressing ctrl+end or ctrl+home.
A macro for this would however be very nice.
Oh ... where is this macro bible site?
Vivyan
Fri Feb 06, 2004 4:12 pm
#13
I would definetly like to see a City Chat for each player town. Something like guildchat, if you are in the guild, you see the chat... So if you are a citizen, you see the city chat. I wouldn't want it to be a public chat that anyone can get into, just for members of the city.
Vivyan
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