the In Game Guild Forums..

[xtarsia]

Need a revamp!

dont care for avatars/sigs or what ever..

but being able to make sub categorys for threads, and have the Officers and HO have access to a restricted section would be even better.

and some edit facilitys.

also at the top of the forums, put the guildMOTD. i imgaine a fair few miss it ect.

thoughts?

[naratuul]

Need a revamp!

dont care for avatars/sigs or what ever..

but being able to make sub categorys for threads, and have the Officers and HO have access to a restricted section would be even better.

and some edit facilitys.

also at the top of the forums, put the guildMOTD. i imgaine a fair few miss it ect.

thoughts?

Agreed. The in game forum and email are pretty useless. The fact that the forums are so featureless along with the fact that the ingame email notification doesn't work unless you are logged on when the mail is received tends to make these features rarely used by most folks.

Of course they probably have extremely low dev priority- but it would be nice if they did work on them a bit. I'd settle for the email notifier working, Most established guilds already have oog forums.

[ajsuk]

I echo Naratuul's thoughts really...

People seem to end up using proper bulletin boards whatever genre/game, even when any in-game systems are of some use.

Sure it'd be nice if it had some work done on it, but the mail system could prolly use the attention more. Proper formatting of reply/forwards and special chars along with the offline alert really need to be in place...

[ashling]

A notice saying you got mail when you log on would make a big differance to the in game mail I think, maybe being able to send out a mail to all of your guild would be handy with that too. For the in game guild boards I'm not sure what would get them more used, guild forums aren't something I use.

[flume641]

ye, the ingame email need to tell if you got mail when you log on, or you can just see the box once a day

[martl]

A notice saying you got mail when you log on would make a big differance to the in game mail I think, maybe being able to send out a mail to all of your guild would be handy with that too. For the in game guild boards I'm not sure what would get them more used, guild forums aren't something I use.

Once... only once when i logged in the 15 months i'm playing now, i had a "mail" type icon in the top right corner of my screen... but only once (and yes, i've gotten more than one mail in that timespan )

[ashling]

Once... only once when i logged in the 15 months i'm playing now, i had a "mail" type icon in the top right corner of my screen... but only once (and yes, i've gotten more than one mail in that timespan )

I'd hope so, I sent you two when I used to play on Ari

[philu]

along with the fact that the ingame email notification doesn't work unless you are logged on when the mail is received

That doesn't work either. Tested it last week and you don't get the icon anymore if a mail is sent while you're logged on. It is just broken completely.

I agree that both the forum and email need improving/fixing.

[cheryl]

Yes it will be great to see more functionality on the in-game board, as it makes it easier not to move in and out of game just to view the boards.

Also is it normal for a forwarded mail to get jumbled up on the data? (received a list of recipe recently which was forwarded the third time and was told that I got the figures wrong).

[praha]

My two biggest beefs with ingame emails:

inconsistant notification (either recieving while online or offline)

and the fact you still can't use the (') key in replies (for example can't shows up as can(some string of symbols here)t.

In all honesty, isn't there about 50 other features in game that you would like to see implemented or completed(heaven forbid) before they spend time/energy on this?