gataka
(?)Community Member
- Posted: Thu, 28 Jan 2010 03:50:24 +0000
For those who are tired of looking for either members or a crew, I present:
Simple, if you're looking to join a crew, you open the board, surf the offers, and simply join the crew you're interested in. No asking or waiting involved. (See note 1)
For those who wish to start a crew, they fill a small form, validate/send it, and wait for above to happen.
Great? Here's how I see it:
1. Filters:
2. Offer Table Header:
3. Current Offers:
4. Stuff: Press "Recrewt" to start a new crew. Press "Refresh" to update/actualize the Board.
5. Crew Setup: the form will ask for the following:
Notes:
Want? No want? Why? Whirly wool wall potato? D:
The Crew Board!
Simple, if you're looking to join a crew, you open the board, surf the offers, and simply join the crew you're interested in. No asking or waiting involved. (See note 1)
For those who wish to start a crew, they fill a small form, validate/send it, and wait for above to happen.
Great? Here's how I see it:
1. Filters:
- Local (default): offers originating from the area you currently are in.
Global: offers from anywhere. If you want to know if there's a Hive crew forming up in the OA while you're in Barton, here's your chance (See note 2)
Clan: crews started by members of your Clan, regardless of where they are.
Friends: as above, replace "Clan" with "people on your friend list".
2. Offer Table Header:
- Goal: what the crew is for/intends to do.
# : number of places available (and how many are taken).
CL: range of Character Level accepted (you must have an appropriate level before joining, else it won't work).
VOIP: will the crew use it or not.
3. Current Offers:
- CLICK: and the game will teleport you there ( See note 3).
"+": Drop Down Menu:
For Players :
-Leader Info: crew's leader character information is displayed.
-Whisper: contacts said leader.
-Share: "(Sharing player's/Sender's name) wants you to join this crew: "(Crews Goal)"by (Crew's Leader Name). Accept/Decline?
-Whisper: contacts said leader.
-Share: "(Sharing player's/Sender's name) wants you to join this crew: "(Crews Goal)"by (Crew's Leader Name). Accept/Decline?
For the Crew's leader :
-Edit: obvious.
-Ban List: people on this list can't join your Crew, but aren't placed on your "Ignore" list.
-Delete: obvious.
-Ban List: people on this list can't join your Crew, but aren't placed on your "Ignore" list.
-Delete: obvious.
4. Stuff: Press "Recrewt" to start a new crew. Press "Refresh" to update/actualize the Board.
5. Crew Setup: the form will ask for the following:
- Goal: what is the crew for. Make it short and complete.
CL Range: obvious.
Number of players wanted: 1 to 5.
VOIP: Yes/No.
Password: like other Gaia games game rooms.
Global: Yes/No (See note 1. Again.)
(TCL Range: See note 5)
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Notes:
- Passwords could be implemented. For recurring trouble makers, the Ban list stops them from joining this particular crew, and "Ignore" could be used for the heavy cases. And you can still do it the old Invite-way.
Global/Clan/Friend will also display the crew's Leader current location. The Leader will be given the option of being globally visible or not (Clan/Friends still will see everything).
I'm not too sure of teleportation: might place an additional strain on the servers and we may end up with people using the utility just to skip parts of the maps, jumping straight to the Blood Tree for example. Anyhow, if the crew leader is currently within an instance, the new member is teleported at its entrance.
I doubt "Goals" could be used to cause trouble, but in the event of some wise guy using this feature to do so, the word filters will protect poor eyes, Ignore could be used in personal affairs (does ignore work?), and I guess reporting the user for the offenses/trouble is feasible.
I thought of having TCLs used, but they're uncertain, the goal is to speed things up, and I fear elitism. I doubt this would be a true issue, thought.
The board could possibly be made available on the server choosing screen, if teleportation is possible and the creation of new crews is disabled. Jump straight into the action!
This whole thing may be a nightmare to implement. The idea is what's important. : D
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Want? No want? Why? Whirly wool wall potato? D: