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russianfreak
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Well i was wondering you now how we have a dot by our names when you open a profile and it is either green or red? Well i was wondering if we could make those dots by your friends name on the friends list. This way it could atomaticly help us now if our friends are online or not instead of going to there profile to check. I think that this is a goodd idea but at the same time not a lot of people like my ideas so what do you guys think?

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ShintetsuWA
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Well, that would be handy at times. It would be a drag taking 20 minutes trying to look up your friends to see if they are active or not. I give this an iffy thumbs up; I like it, but I'm not sure if it will be that much of a necessity. It's like the birthday idea: Good, but maybe later.

RaptorExx
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I give it a thumbs up only because even if it's an awesome idea, it's still going to be 'later' by the time it's put in XP

I think it's good I mean even if it's 'unnecessary', it's still a good improvement I mean it's no less 'nessacary' than the standard ole' On/Offline, and the flags for the matter O_O
Good idea, wouldn't mean much to me since most of my friends list is inactive now =)

ShintetsuWA
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Yeah, mine are too. Most of them I guess got tired of the site and everything. I would say it would be a pleasant feature if your friends were moderately active.

russianfreak
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Well i guess my idea is good but if you guys have anything to add to my idea that would be nice.

Good idea, wouldn't mean much to me since most of my friends list is inactive now =)

You always make new friends and always there are at least 2 friends that are overtime online so it wuld be usefull.
ShintetsuWA
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Well, it kind of goes along with this, but I've been aching for like a special font color that goes with friend usernames in the forums to appropriately recognize that they are active there, instead of straining your eyes trying to find the username link.

firetail_madness
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I can't find anything too bad about it.
It would be even better if there was yellow for inactivity.

russianfreak
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I like your idea ShintetsuWA that would be nice and what do you mean firetail_madness yellow? red and green is the perfect colors.

RaptorExx
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Well, it kind of goes along with this, but I've been aching for like a special font color that goes with friend usernames in the forums to appropriately recognize that they are active there, instead of straining your eyes trying to find the username link.

Like This?
*Note just random people highlighted*

I think that would be a nice addition, but there's probably some brilliant consequence leading to why it can't be implemented into the site XD
It would be even better if there was yellow for inactivity.

Genius. The little dot would turn yellow after they've been gone for 2 weeks or a month, that'd be nice.
russianfreak
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Sorry for douuble posting but i just understood what firetail_madness means well maybe that will work like if they aren't active for a month it turns yellow.

ShintetsuWA
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That would be great, again, any color besides the mod blue will count.

if (%username = friend)
NameColor = color.red;

else
NameColor = color.cyan;

Well, that's how they'd do it in Java lol (partly), but I don't know the specific armor games classes that Shpigford put down, not that that's any of my business.

And the part about the yellow is a good idea too. The thing that worries me is the information that it might be pulling, as it deals with activity in the forums (you guys all knew what happened last time)...

RaptorExx
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The thing that worries me is the information that it might be pulling, as it deals with activity in the forums (you guys all knew what happened last time)...

What are you referring to exactly?

My brain went dead at the sight of the percent symbol, I don't quite understand what you're talking about on the upper part of your post =o But I don't think Cyan would work it'd just be TOO MUCH BLUE!
Current Colour Ideas-
Friends = Red
Birthday = 'gold'

I personally think this would be awesome, assuming there isn't a bunch of party poohfers >_>
firetail_madness
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Well, that isn't exactly what I had in mind for inactivity but what Raptor said works well too...

And raptor get to the club! [/offtopic]

ShintetsuWA
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Cyan is the color by default(I think).

And the thing about the information. You know what happened with the last active feature, right? It constantly takes information. This one deals with the same thing; it tracks the user's activity until it reached 2 weeks or so of inactivity, then it blinks yellow. Aside from that, it'd be handy to have, as it'd check that the person is away or something.

Danstanta
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Well but really because you can just tell it by the memory of the user's name or really if it shows a big red "X" on the right, other wise, Nothing special.

russianfreak
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Umm guys all awesome ideas i really like them and to tumbs up but how does this have to do with my idea?

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