Pre-word: I did a lot of searching for these ideas, and thought I'd find existing threads, but I couldn't any, so I'm going to go ahead and post.
Clickable links:
This is pretty self-explanatory. You paste a website link in and people can click on it. It asks you "Are you sure you want to open this link? The game will minimize." and has a "yes/no" button. Make sure to include in the EULA that Shine is not responsible for any potential content or consequence from clicking on a link, so y'all got your backs covered. This would be very useful because people love to show screenshots, send each other music videos, send links to server websites, send links to threads on the StarMade Forum, ect. while they chat. Right now people rely on other third-party software, like Skype and Teamspeak. I suggest try to keep them using the in game chat system instead, so they are only minimizing the game when looking at a link, rather than keeping the game minimized while text chatting on these other programs.
Emoticons:
Ok, so I've never really been a giant fan of emoticons.. but on the other hand, it really is standard nowadays. Every chat program out there has emoticons. People love emoticons. I am from the old school generation that saw ASCII art websites and IRC, but I think people would like this addition and would help make the chat portion of the game more full-fledged. I suggest having a way to turn it on and off though. It would automatically replace strings like ": )" and ": (" (without the spaces) with corresponding emoticons. You could also click a button to open a list of emoticons, select the one you'd like and place it. :p:D
Copy[ ] Links:
Ok, so this was an idea I had AFTER posting this original thread, but I think it would be quite useful, so I'm going to add it! This idea is to allow people to type, Copy[words words words], and then when they send it to chat, it shows as a highlighted "words words words." Other players could then click on the text and a pop-up window with "Copy" or "Cancel" opens up. Copying would copy the text to the clipboard. A few uses of this would be for teamspeak server ip addresses. Also coordinates. "Hey guys, go to copy[25,25,100]". Then other players, whom can see the text, could copy the coordinates and stick em in to their navigation. Or "Hey guys, meet me at the teamspeak server at copy[ts.myserver.com:3211]" and everyone gets to chat easily in teamspeak.
Clickable links:
This is pretty self-explanatory. You paste a website link in and people can click on it. It asks you "Are you sure you want to open this link? The game will minimize." and has a "yes/no" button. Make sure to include in the EULA that Shine is not responsible for any potential content or consequence from clicking on a link, so y'all got your backs covered. This would be very useful because people love to show screenshots, send each other music videos, send links to server websites, send links to threads on the StarMade Forum, ect. while they chat. Right now people rely on other third-party software, like Skype and Teamspeak. I suggest try to keep them using the in game chat system instead, so they are only minimizing the game when looking at a link, rather than keeping the game minimized while text chatting on these other programs.
Emoticons:
Ok, so I've never really been a giant fan of emoticons.. but on the other hand, it really is standard nowadays. Every chat program out there has emoticons. People love emoticons. I am from the old school generation that saw ASCII art websites and IRC, but I think people would like this addition and would help make the chat portion of the game more full-fledged. I suggest having a way to turn it on and off though. It would automatically replace strings like ": )" and ": (" (without the spaces) with corresponding emoticons. You could also click a button to open a list of emoticons, select the one you'd like and place it. :p:D
Copy[ ] Links:
Ok, so this was an idea I had AFTER posting this original thread, but I think it would be quite useful, so I'm going to add it! This idea is to allow people to type, Copy[words words words], and then when they send it to chat, it shows as a highlighted "words words words." Other players could then click on the text and a pop-up window with "Copy" or "Cancel" opens up. Copying would copy the text to the clipboard. A few uses of this would be for teamspeak server ip addresses. Also coordinates. "Hey guys, go to copy[25,25,100]". Then other players, whom can see the text, could copy the coordinates and stick em in to their navigation. Or "Hey guys, meet me at the teamspeak server at copy[ts.myserver.com:3211]" and everyone gets to chat easily in teamspeak.
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