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Screemonster

Screemonster
System chat is good. Great, even, if you want to carry on a chat with people in the RES while you're at the station or they're in supercruise or whatever, but if they're not in your instance right now there's no way to contact people even if they call the same system home if you happen to fly at different times of day without knowing about it.

I propose adding a bulletin board to station services - a relatively simple messageboard that allows you to pin notices up for other players to read, that remain there for a couple of days before disappearing, tagged with your CMDR name and (optionally) squadron ID. Similar to the internal statements you can make on the squadrons tab and allow squadron members to read when they log in, only this is for players to contact other players at the same station.

Subject to the usual rules about in-game communications, and messages from blocked players would naturally not be displayed.

The purpose could be anything from a friendly "yo heads up, the Vanguard just jumped in 20ly away and they're buying basic meds for 10k/t, get in while the getting's good", to "hey, anyone else call this system home? If not the MARAUDING MARAUDERS are going to move in so speak now or forever hold ye peace, yarr", to "Whoever keeps starting wars here, we're open to talk". Diplomacy!

Potentially a good feature for fleet carriers too if "allow public to land" is an option, with carrier owners able to post a message informing everyone of the next planned jump.
 

posthy

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The idea is not bad in itself, but it'd not work. In the first couple weeks while it's a new thing, it'd be flooded with nonsense messages like "<insert cmdr name> was here". After that nobody will care about the whole thing....
 

Bloodsign

Bloodsign
Screemonster said:
System chat is good. Great, even, if you want to carry on a chat with people in the RES while you're at the station or they're in supercruise or whatever, but if they're not in your instance right now there's no way to contact people even if they call the same system home if you happen to fly at different times of day without knowing about it.

I propose adding a bulletin board to station services - a relatively simple messageboard that allows you to pin notices up for other players to read, that remain there for a couple of days before disappearing, tagged with your CMDR name and (optionally) squadron ID. Similar to the internal statements you can make on the squadrons tab and allow squadron members to read when they log in, only this is for players to contact other players at the same station.

Subject to the usual rules about in-game communications, and messages from blocked players would naturally not be displayed.

The purpose could be anything from a friendly "yo heads up, the Vanguard just jumped in 20ly away and they're buying basic meds for 10k/t, get in while the getting's good", to "hey, anyone else call this system home? If not the MARAUDING MARAUDERS are going to move in so speak now or forever hold ye peace, yarr", to "Whoever keeps starting wars here, we're open to talk". Diplomacy!

Potentially a good feature for fleet carriers too if "allow public to land" is an option, with carrier owners able to post a message informing everyone of the next planned jump.
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They should be paid adverts as in a newspaper, paid for in credits by the CMDR based on length of message, duration of display, and maybe even a priority booster for display prominence.
 

Bloodsign

Bloodsign
posthy said:
The idea is not bad in itself, but it'd not work. In the first couple weeks while it's a new thing, it'd be flooded with nonsense messages like "<insert cmdr name> was here". After that nobody will care about the whole thing....
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Drelthar said:
Yeah... This is a great idea, sadly ruined by human nature.

It'd be full of trash almost instantly, and constantly.

Doesn't have to be "offensive" to cause problems for the system.
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This is why it needs to be a paid feature (credits).
 

Screemonster

Screemonster
Drelthar said:
Oh sure! Because trolls, sillies and "funny people" will be entirely put off by that!
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Did you miss the part where it'd be subject to the same blocking restrictions and EULA rules as any other in-game communication? If someone spams a bulletin board with trash then people can just block them or they get the big ding dong bannu just as they would if they went to shinrarta and spammed the n-word over and over in system chat.
 

Phoenix_Dfire

Phoenix_Dfire
To Be honest; this is a great idea. But as people have already pointed it, it would probably full of 'Cmdr <Insert name of hated Cmder here> sucks donkey spheres' messages or the like before you know it.

Even if they put in the profanity filter in, never understimate the ability of people to come up with new ways be nasty to one another.
 

Drelthar

Drelthar
Screemonster said:
Did you miss the part where it'd be subject to the same blocking restrictions and EULA rules as any other in-game communication? If someone spams a bulletin board with trash then people can just block them or they get the big ding dong bannu just as they would if they went to shinrarta and spammed the n-word over and over in system chat.
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You know what, this makes this a much better idea, an even easier way to find people im not interested in playing the game with! Search the bulletin board for silly messages, click, block player.

Sweet! Please implement immediately FD!!!!!!!!!

I'm serious.

But yeah, I didn't mean people saying things that were "offensive" etc, I just meant them filling with silly out of character/game world junk

"Football team X is amazing! " Is one of the lesser problematic (for me) messages that wouldn't break any rules.

But I would be blocking that person.
 

Alone Wulff

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It's a great idea! Yes it'd be spammed with nonsense for a while but the silly stuff can be ignored right? Just like the stupid chat at a busy CG. Doesn't happen often but "there's always one".

In my home system I have a ship pass through now and then. Might be nice to pick up a custom welcome message if they stop for fuel, or whatever. More so for controlling faction 'owners' (PMFs only I suppose), it could be made so a custom welcome message pops up in comms.
 

Screemonster

Screemonster
Yeah, or people being all "hey, there's not actually a player-owned faction here but our player group have been supporting one of the native factions" which was a thing that's caused contention in the past when people have had PMFs added to a system without realising that, no, there's actually people already present in a different time zone or mode.
 
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