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fiery

fiery

Banned

Join Date: Oct 2005

maryland

InYurFace Gaming [IYF]

R/

31 May 2006 at 00:39 - 1
To the build on suggestion with a self post message to whatever your doing such as" afk 5 mins", " sleeping".

What about a status message for:

Heros's Ascent
Team Arenas
Random Arenas
GVG or Guild vs. Guild

Undivine

Undivine

of Brackenwood

Join Date: Oct 2005

Ontario, Canada

31 May 2006 at 10:09 - 2
...You're going to have to clarify what you mean.

Kaguya

Desert Nomad

Join Date: Jan 2006

Moon

Mo/

31 May 2006 at 11:34 - 3
Well adding a 'Reason:' textfield below the Player status-dropdown would pretty much cover everything.

Status: Away, reason: Sleeping
Status: Do Not Disturb, reason: GvG



Adding more 'statuses' for different activities is a bit.. pointless imo. Just add a reason-bar to specify :P

Esprit

Esprit

Desert Nomad

Join Date: Jun 2005

Dvd Forums [DVDF]

E/

31 May 2006 at 12:09 - 4
Heros's Ascent - Hardly play
Team Arenas - Don't play
Random Arenas - Don't play
GVG or Guild vs. Guild - Hardly play

These are all PvP status messages, it's a pretty one sided suggestion.

jummeth

Wilds Pathfinder

Join Date: Mar 2006

London

Diary of a Madman [SiKK]

31 May 2006 at 15:18 - 5
Quote:
Originally Posted by fiery
" sleeping".
Log off!

Jeez its not RO where you can set up vend overnight.

AFK 5mins is not needed either, its noly needed to warn your guild or team, at which you can also simply say it.

If you are AFK you should be in your GH anyhow.

Tarun

Tarun

Technician's Corner Moderator

Join Date: Jan 2006

The TARDIS

http://www.lunarsoft.net/ http://forums.lunarsoft.net/

31 May 2006 at 15:21 - 6
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An idle counter would be far more practical, setting an auto-away/idle message status when people are idle for X amount of time.

Evilsod

Evilsod

Banned

Join Date: Mar 2006

England

Lievs Death Squad [LDS]

31 May 2006 at 15:31 - 7
Quote:
Originally Posted by Tarun
An idle counter would be far more practical, setting an auto-away/idle message status when people are idle for X amount of time.
Now that i'd vote for.

Kaguya

Desert Nomad

Join Date: Jan 2006

Moon

Mo/

31 May 2006 at 18:07 - 8
Quote:
Originally Posted by jummeth
If you are AFK you should be in your GH anyhow.
Not everyone has a GH!

Quote:
Originally Posted by Tarun
An idle counter would be far more practical, setting an auto-away/idle message status when people are idle for X amount of time.
Is that really related to the suggestion? You won't be AFK, but doing something, for example doing GvG. Now you could go 'Do not disturb'-mode, but that wouldn't really tell anything to the person trying to reach you. If you'd have an option like in the OP, to set a specific GvG-mode, the person trying to reach you would see that the player is doing a GvG, and could prolly guesstimate a time when they'd be done.

Inflexible, hence my addition that user-settable string would be more helpful.

Tarun

Tarun

Technician's Corner Moderator

Join Date: Jan 2006

The TARDIS

http://www.lunarsoft.net/ http://forums.lunarsoft.net/

31 May 2006 at 19:43 - 9
Quote:
Originally Posted by Kaguya
Is that really related to the suggestion? You won't be AFK, but doing something, for example doing GvG. Now you could go 'Do not disturb'-mode, but that wouldn't really tell anything to the person trying to reach you. If you'd have an option like in the OP, to set a specific GvG-mode, the person trying to reach you would see that the player is doing a GvG, and could prolly guesstimate a time when they'd be done.

Inflexible, hence my addition that user-settable string would be more helpful.
Some people value their privacy though. If I go to a DND mode, I don't want people knowing where I am or what I'm doing. I'm obviously in that mode for a reason.

MMSDome

MMSDome

Raged Out

Join Date: Sep 2005

31 May 2006 at 21:16 - 10
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not really neccessary when you can just log off.

fiery

fiery

Banned

Join Date: Oct 2005

maryland

InYurFace Gaming [IYF]

R/

31 May 2006 at 22:35 - 11
Well can't do the picture thing but an easily way for friends know what you are doing at the moment.

Say Friend A- Looking for an extra for HA.
Friend A- Looks at Friends List, and sees Friend B already has his HA message up, and no need to ask him seeing he's already in.


Say Friend A- Looking for an extra for Guest GVG.
Friend A- Looks at Friends List, and sees Friend B already has his GVG message up, and no need to ask him seeing he's already in.

Kaguya

Desert Nomad

Join Date: Jan 2006

Moon

Mo/

01 Jun 2006 at 05:33 - 12
Quote:
Originally Posted by Tarun
Some people value their privacy though. If I go to a DND mode, I don't want people knowing where I am or what I'm doing. I'm obviously in that mode for a reason.
Then you obviously would leave the reason-field empty, then they won't know what you are doing. :P

Quote:
Originally Posted by Fiery
Well can't do the picture thing but an easily way for friends know what you are doing at the moment.

Say Friend A- Looking for an extra for HA.
Friend A- Looks at Friends List, and sees Friend B already has his HA message up, and no need to ask him seeing he's already in.


Say Friend A- Looking for an extra for Guest GVG.
Friend A- Looks at Friends List, and sees Friend B already has his GVG message up, and no need to ask him seeing he's already in.
Aaaa. Well, to implement something like this on the picture I did earlier, maybe add the reason-string after the player's name.

I don't see the use for HA/GvG/etc modes as I don't do the pee-vee-pee, so benefit of the suggestion would only go to those doing it actively. Having a user-defineable text would cover everyone, but with current interface wouldn't add new status icons which you apparently are after.