Suggestion : log conversation - Guild Wars Guru archive powered by Guild Wars Legacy

auntie ying

Ascalonian Squire

Join Date: Mar 2006

Hom Kingdom[HK]

Mo/W

30 Mar 2006 at 03:52 - 1

I want this function for a long time!!!!!!

As I chat a lot with my guildmates/friends/teammate,

I will be very happy if the conversations will be logged automatically and saved to a file!!!

Yesterday I have printed screen for about 2X times in order to save a conversion in image form(that conversion is not very long!!!)...it is a really terrible experience!!!!!

Could NC Soft think about this function????

Thanks!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

OH Sorry I should post this to Sardelac Sanitarium...can anyone tell me how to delete this post?

Dr Strangelove

Furnace Stoker

Join Date: Dec 2005

Wasting away again in Margaritaville

[HOTR]

30 Mar 2006 at 05:17 - 2

Great scott, I've never seen so many exclamation points in one place.

It does log for a reasonable amount of time, but can you imagine the disk space to store all the chat? My poor computer would be overrun after a few minutes of standing in LA d1.

Thanks for the input!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Any more ideas??????????????!!!!!!!!!

koneko

Site Contributor

Join Date: Sep 2005

38??16′ N 140??52′ E

Mo/Me

30 Mar 2006 at 05:26 - 3

Quote:

Originally Posted by Dr Strangelove

It does log for a reasonable amount of time, but can you imagine the disk space to store all the chat? My poor computer would be overrun after a few minutes of standing in LA d1.

Not as much as one would think if it were all stored in plaintext. Like mIRC's logging feature, really.

I used to talk in a certain channel on irc.rizon.net a lot...very active, somewhat spammy at times. The logs created weren't very large.

auntie ying

Ascalonian Squire

Join Date: Mar 2006

Hom Kingdom[HK]

Mo/W

30 Mar 2006 at 10:37 - 4

Quote:

Originally Posted by Dr Strangelove

Great scott, I've never seen so many exclamation points in one place.

It does log for a reasonable amount of time, but can you imagine the disk space to store all the chat? My poor computer would be overrun after a few minutes of standing in LA d1.

Thanks for the input!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Any more ideas??????????????!!!!!!!!!

Thanks for you guys' reply!!!

I think the game should allow the player to choose which channel they want to log. For example a guy can choose to log the conversation in guild channel but not the public channel.

I agree the point that conversation logging will cause lag

(maybe that's why no game has this feature

) but I believe this function will make every player happy(and lag?)!!!!!

Anyway this is just a suggestion~

Hg80

Ascalonian Squire

Join Date: Aug 2005

UK

Don't Injure Yourself [DIY]

Mo/E

30 Mar 2006 at 13:34 - 5

/Sign

Good idea was thinking about this other night, plain text format would not use a huge amount of space i use a number of busy irc chanels and log the chat in plain text and its nothing on hard drive space.

Maybe it should be done so it stores the chat for 30days then deletes the old data they way if you want to save anything after that you have to save it yourself

torp

Ascalonian Squire

Join Date: Mar 2006

Me/N

30 Mar 2006 at 14:45 - 6

While we're at it, could we possibly copy text from the chat windows to the system clipboard? Funny you can paste into it, but not copy.

Gonzo

Jungle Guide

Join Date: Feb 2006

Netherlands

Defenders of the Blackblade [DotB]

W/

30 Mar 2006 at 14:57 - 7

/sign

I made this suggestion before, but it got drowned in the flow of it all. Good to see somebody else suggest it as well

gamegrrrl

Pre-Searing Cadet

Join Date: Jun 2006

E/N

14 Jun 2006 at 04:50 - 8

Hi...I'm a games researcher and I'm willing to bet there is a way to save chat. When I asked people from Blizzard about WoW they said "no it can't be done" but a fellow researcher new the "secret word." I find it hard to believe that QA did not request this feature? Anybody with Arcane knowledge who can find the secret password to save chatlogs?

bilateralrope

Desert Nomad

Join Date: Nov 2005

New Zealand

Xen Of Onslaught (Xen of the Pacific division)

14 Jun 2006 at 05:04 - 9

As it is now there is probably no way for us to save the chatlogs, though ANET would be saving the logs at their end in order to check that the complaints they recieve are correct.

I would ask for one, but I can't think of a reason why one would be useful for us.

Helll is for Heroes

Lion's Arch Merchant

Join Date: Dec 2005

True Cinema

W/

14 Jun 2006 at 05:13 - 10

err you can...its called a personal keylogger....

bilateralrope

Desert Nomad

Join Date: Nov 2005

New Zealand

Xen Of Onslaught (Xen of the Pacific division)

14 Jun 2006 at 05:29 - 11

Keyloggers only record what you type in, not what other people say over guild wars chat or things you copy and paste into chat.

lyra_song

Hell's Protector

Join Date: Oct 2005

R/Mo

14 Jun 2006 at 15:43 - 12

Quote:

Originally Posted by koneko

Not as much as one would think if it were all stored in plaintext. Like mIRC's logging feature, really.

I used to talk in a certain channel on irc.rizon.net a lot...very active, somewhat spammy at times. The logs created weren't very large.

Agreed! It would probably have quite a lot of options such as logging each different chat tab, and organizing via zone, district, etc.

Janus_Zeal

Academy Page

Join Date: Jun 2006

South Philly slums

Don't wanna be bothered with one

N/

14 Jun 2006 at 22:08 - 13

/signed

It could be useful.

Atomheart

Ascalonian Squire

Join Date: Apr 2006

Rt/

14 Jun 2006 at 22:36 - 14

/SIGNED
Dont have to log all the spammy drok's bot-selling though. Select what you wanna log maybe

Undivine

of Brackenwood

Join Date: Oct 2005

Ontario, Canada

15 Jun 2006 at 10:53 - 15

No, it would not be laggy. And frankly I don't see how it would be hard. EverQuest had it. In fact, it was a useful tool for trade skill experiments as well as reporting bad behavior. It just makes a small .txt document. Then again, EverQuest's chat was based on IRC. GW seems to use its own custom-built chat.

M C H A M M E R

Wilds Pathfinder

Join Date: Dec 2005

Drunken Rangers [DR], Sig of Ultimate Doom [SiG]

W/

15 Jun 2006 at 10:59 - 16

I wouldn't like that...
/notsigned for seemingly odvious reasons.

Kaguya

Desert Nomad

Join Date: Jan 2006

Moon

Mo/

15 Jun 2006 at 11:08 - 17

Quote:

Originally Posted by M C H A M M E R

/notsigned for seemingly odvious reasons.

Huh, what are those then?

bilateralrope

Desert Nomad

Join Date: Nov 2005

New Zealand

Xen Of Onslaught (Xen of the Pacific division)

15 Jun 2006 at 11:25 - 18

Quote:

Originally Posted by M C H A M M E R

I wouldn't like that...
/notsigned for seemingly odvious reasons.

Well they seem obvious to you. But they aren't

KamikazeChicken

Desert Nomad

Join Date: Aug 2005

Mo/

15 Jun 2006 at 12:15 - 19

Anet already has all chat in the game saved at some point in time, but don't expect them to add such a feature.

kimahri

Lion's Arch Merchant

Join Date: Sep 2005

Defenders of the Blackblade [DotB]

E/

15 Jun 2006 at 13:51 - 20

/signed
since for example sometimes people write builds to you that you could have use of but you're very busy when he/she is writing. this would make it all much easier then taking screens of the log.

Arknow

Academy Page

Join Date: Feb 2006

Middle of Space, Corner of No and Where

Ell EFF GEE

R/

15 Jun 2006 at 14:10 - 21

/log <channel>

dont take up as much room as u would think, i got 5 years of eq logs and no memory issues at all