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NEW CONTEST: Post your own Crotch Zombifying videos!

I’m putting it together. Don’t know when we can get the camera to film – friend has to rent one out from the campus Telecomm department.

I don’t remember a deadline for this contest being posted…

Internet Delay Chat suggestions.

Most of these are obvious, and probably already on a to-do list, but since there is no publicly available to-do list, I’m listing them here. Hope it helps.

– Player list needs to be more compact and only show player icons on mouseover.

– The tubmail link should be a small icon next to each player name in the player list.

– Clicking the player name should enter into private chat with them/PM them if it’s supported, or go to their profile if it is not. This action should be possible by clicking a name in the chatlog or the player list.

– A checkbox for “autoscroll with update” or smarter auto-scroll-to-the-bottom (i.e. don’t scroll when you’re not already at the bottom).

– Coloring of usernames. (Pick a random color for each username upon entry to the chatroom, preferably from a preset list of about 50 that loops. This way it will be much easier to distinguish who is talking.)

– Username highlighting – if someone says a username in the text, it should highlight it the color of the person to attract their attention.

– Moderation system. Tied in with this, it would be nice to have the ability to kick or mute a person for like 5 minutes through a channel-wide vote. After 2 successful mute/ignores it should increase the timelimit.

– Ignore/mute system. Also it would be neat if you could somehow highlight entries from a user to make them stand out, like the opposite of ignore.

– Emote (/me) system.

– Emote icon selection menu.

– Potential support for randomized text, like forumbuildr entries (at least for the roleplaying forums).

Klan donatations.

Dez666 Posted:

-Option to have a playable clan forum (playable by all) but the enemies in the forum be existing clan members, and the forum content be created exclusively by the clan. (i’m guessing this would require some moderation…

You’d be interested in this post.

sTalk Friends

Dante Kinkade Posted:

Well that is how i get all my chi.. never mind lol. though I guess people who would want the sTalk function for here might not want to give out their acuall msn account name or something, or doesnt have it. or for some insane reason uses aim and not msn.

Yeah. I would rather use sTalk for contacting in-game people realtime for the same reason I’d rather use tubmail for messages than my real e-mail. It keeps it in-game, I don’t have to give out my real info unless I want to, etc. etc.

Like I said, it adds to immersion.

It shouldn’t be too hard to implement now that they’ve got IDC up and running.

EDIT: Added quotes I could find about sTalking other players.

Kelp Plankton Posted:

I think being able to sTalk with other people playing the game at the time would be fantastic but likely gets into territory that’s not intended to be tread.

Source

3 Word Story Forum Game!

real use for

sTalk Friends

SkinTicket Posted:

Too much effort and shit to code that sort of thing

It would seriously add to the immersion factor. I think it could be worth it, but it would probably be something you’d have to pay for. For instance, if Episode 2 (or 3?) isn’t free, it could be a bonus of purchasing it.

IrascibleRedoubt Posted:

You guys are lazier than the actual coders, it is sad.

What? How so? Am I supposed to make a prototype of the software and upload it to the forums or something?

What do you expect me to do?

Buildr Score

Could you add a leaderboard for Buildr score? Thanks.

3 Word Story Forum Game!

and looks like

How we plan to improve ForumBuildr!

SuperPsyche Posted:

Instead of -5 and gone would it be possible for submissions to get nuked at the rollover, and then -5 and lower go away? Might help protect submissions some from the folks who downvote everything that isn’t theirs.

I’ve submitted a few suggestions like this.

Two-Phase Forumbuildr Voting (Thread)

24-Hour Submission Minimum Lifetime (Thread)

To be fair, gdap basically posted the idea for the last one here, which I quoted in my post. This was after my suggestion for two-phase voting, but it’s a lot simpler.

Submitting enemy names is useless now?

Klanless, and I won last week’s logo contest. Prior to that I won two style submissions.

I most likely would have won last week’s, but I submitted a tad bit too late (someone submitted a similar one right before mine), and I failed to mention the fact that my usernames were all spiffy and highlighted on mouseover in the style title.

I probably could have won YouBoob’s too, but I didn’t submit my style until about Friday and it wasn’t able to accumulate votes fast enough to beat the prior winner, despite looking a heck of a lot better, IMO.

I don’t think there’s a lot of Klan voting going on (if any), but sometimes one of the losing or new entries will jump ahead by like 200% of the previous winner’s score when it doesn’t look any better than the previous entries. That always confuses me.