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Posted Nov 5, '12 at 5:25pm
GhostOfHorror
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So, just recently played this game and noticed it had a chatroom.
Is this just a feature of the game itself, or are AG implementing a chat room feature?
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Posted Nov 5, '12 at 5:28pm
Salvidian
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Games with chat rooms are implemented by the game creators, not AG's admins, so no, that would not be an AG chat room.
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Posted Nov 5, '12 at 5:29pm
GhostOfHorror
789 posts
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Aha, okay.
I've just not seen it on another game yet.
If they approve of games with chatrooms, why not just implement them anyway?
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Posted Nov 5, '12 at 5:34pm
Salvidian
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If they approve of games with chatrooms, why not just implement them anyway?
I don't know, actually. AG's game devs have made their own games with chat rooms, but they haven't said if they'll make one for the site or not. I'd imagine so, but they'll probably get some of the other updates up and running first, because a chat room will probably take a while.
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Posted Nov 5, '12 at 6:09pm
heyitsleo
38 posts
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The reason is because we don't have the man-power to moderate the chatrooms right now. Game studios are required to moderate the chat themselves and if the chats get out of hand, we'll tell them to disable it from the game.
Another issue is server load. MMO servers are more optimized for chatrooms than traditional web servers. Even then, some of the MMOs that released with chatrooms weren't expecting the load we were about to unleash and it crashed their servers. Chat on a large scale, my friends, is not as easy to implement as you may think ;)
With that said, it's still on the table thanks to community demands.
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Posted Nov 5, '12 at 9:23pm
trying
352 posts
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Heh. You should've seen Colony's chatroom back when it was more active. There was flaming daily.
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Posted Nov 5, '12 at 11:49pm
GhostOfMatrix
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The reason is because we don't have the man-power to moderate the chatrooms right now.
What do you think about separating chat mods from forum mods? The idea would be that all the current mods would be able to mod both, but suitable people that frequent the chats but not so much forums would be chat mods, and vice versa. You could experiment this by adding a few chats (~5) and see how that works out.
For servers, are you saying that too many people = server crash? Well, you could add the chats on a separate page and only people that want to actually use the chat will, instead of having it on game pages and everyone who plays has it automatically open.
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Posted Nov 14, '12 at 10:17pm
xXxDAPRO89xXx
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Heh. You should've seen Colony's chatroom back when it was more active. There was flaming daily.
Yeah totally xD
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Posted Nov 17, '12 at 2:39pm
GhostOfHorror
789 posts
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we don't have the man-power to moderate the chatrooms right now
I'm sure many people would willingly volunteer to do so.
Say 2/3 mods per chat room, each from a different time zone.
It would be difficult to find enough volunteers for this if you're going to have it restricted to 18+, though.
Another issue is server load
As Matrix said, you could always have an external page for chat, like it was when it originally came out.
You could experiment this by adding a few chats (~5)
You can always start off with 2 or 3, if necessary, just to see how it pans out.
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Posted Nov 18, '12 at 5:56am
MonsterTruK
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it would be cool to have a big chat system.....coming soon ?
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