To avoid so many duplicate threads, please place your ideas and thoughts on a live chat system here.
Initially, we weren't going to do a live chat, but enough users asked for it that Dan has agreed, and we'll add a live chat to the system AFTER we launch AG3. It will NOT be part of the AG3 launch.
Ideas that others have suggested: - custom channels - password-protected channels - kick/ban controls - moderation controls - report a user
We don't know yet if the chat will be Flash based, Java based, or something else.
Besides, normal moderators could mod the chat, then more mods could be added if needed.
You really think that the moderators now will have enough time to moderate several chat rooms with a lot of people and all the other things they do? I think the administration knows that it'll end up disastrous if they keep it this way because it's unlikely that the five-seven active moderators now will have enough time for chat rooms, forums, game comments, anything else they do on AG, and real life stuff.
Take a look at the Kongregate forums and chat rooms, if the AG chat rooms are anything like that then they'll need to seperate moderators or even add more to do things on the site as a whole, but considering AG looks for 18+ people and ten+ other things for moderators, that isn't going to work out well.
Take a look at the Kongregate forums and chat rooms, if the AG chat rooms are anything like that then they'll need to seperate moderators or even add more to do things on the site as a whole, but considering AG looks for 18+ people and ten+ other things for moderators, that isn't going to work out well.
So basically, you're saying that either of the following needs to happen:
- No chat. - Lower mod requirements, then add more moderators.
I would prefer the second option, since I'm sure plenty of people (including me) want live chat.
I'm not saying no chat, I personally want one, but since there are so few moderators and the requirements are so tight it's likely the chats will have issues.
I believe that there should be a filtering and an auto-reporting system to ensure that other members of the chat room keep it quiet. Also, I think that the chat window would work well if it was on a side bar of the browser window. I hope that my ideas were of use.
What do you mean by don't keep it quiet? Do you mean that if they don't talk in the chat room then they deserve to get kicked from it? That's a bad idea. That's like saying if people on Armor Games don't post in the forums then they deserve to get banned.
And putting it on the side or bottom like on Facebook isn't what it's going to be, I believe. From what Cormyn has posted through this thread it looks like it's going to be something like TinyChat or Xat; it'll be on a page and you can choose to go there and chat with people.
I think that if you could only chat with your friends it would be good, but saying that I really do not want to see Armor Games turn into another mini Facebook.
a good idea is armathemes. change the theme of the chatroom
If they could find a way to allow thousands of users to simultaneously change the theme of their individual chatrooms every second without lagging the living hell out of the site, your idea would definitely be considered.
I don't think we're going to be the ones creating the chat rooms. It'll most likely be the admins creating them then having whatever active mods they have now patrolling them, but that'll be hard considering how many users we have.
I don't know if this has been brought up but, maybe there can also be live chat in threads. For example I play in the DnD thread in the forum games and we respond back and forth but, gets annoying because we constantly ninja each other and stuff. so, maybe we can have a group chat system or a room chats that can b set to private with a password needed and as for our friend list we click the name and it gives us option you click chat and boom your chatting but, there also should be a system of knowing whether they are online or not.
