IDEAS FOR RYZOM

Not only does Craftjenn make great gear, she also makes great forum comments.

Regarding the inability to block chat messages by "~" users arriving from sources external to the game, it seems that the same is true today with Rocket Chat.

Disturbing the peace of various chats in-game is not enough for some players. So, they disturb Atys with a megaphone (i.e. Rocket Chat) from a distance which cannot be blocked in-game.

I say, let the Kami deal with it.

Just as when harvesting, the wrath of Kami can be incurred for abusing Atys, the same should be true for chat. Users could have a Kami status bar for their status with Kami. If that status runs too low, the Kami will kill the offending homin with a strike of lightning. This will result in a timed ban from Rocket Chat and in-game public chats. The offending player will incur a full death penalty and receive a courtesy note of explanation from the Kami who killed them.

Good deeds by the offender and compassion, if deserved, from fellow homins should be allowed to alter the offender's Kami status. Up or down-voting by other users of individual comments could be one way of doing this. Down voting comments by players would reduce Kami status while up-voting would increase it. Think of this as care planning for chat. Yet, even without the participation of other homins the Kami will be watching and acting as necessary and with vigilance.

The initial programming logic could be based upon number of characters typed within a given time. Up and down-voting by other players could be added to that logic.

I'm sure the devs could knock this out in about five minutes -thanks to all the subscriptions. ;->

I dream about a day when IG ignore list will be shared with RC :)

I had this issue a few times before I decided to unblock everyone on RC again who I still have blocked ingame.
A quick talk with Riasan revealed that the current way blocked people are handled by the RC are out of hands to solve or change by the Ryzom staff and lies within the responsibility of Rocket Chat, to which all inquiries regarding this matter should be made.

Nice gravedig of a thread by the way.

//Edit: The current way blocked people are handled in RC right now is that you will still see their messages, albeit with a warning reminding you that it's actually text by a person you have blocked.

Some good ideas, but a lot of stuffs in here (citation) would make me very uncomfortable (as it makes me think to some witch hunt)... What about the shy people (who don't speak very often)? or about outcasts, minorities?

Imagine (for ex) that a troll, who jokes a lot (and with many very crude jokes, for ex), gain lot of votes... Some adults would like him, some would hate him - would be fair to ban him for 2 kids, coming between 4 and 5 pm ? :p

Reading chat and forum, I fund many aggression or even meanness (even if I know that, most of time, it's just clumsiness from some 12 years old boys). I am not sure such votes could be constructive on Atys (with a very strong Kami faction).
For me, that must be only in the hands of CSR.

But I agree that Universe has too much flood - most of it is in English, therefore I know lot of French who never read it). Maybe we should better add a more clean "help chat", with no flood, for all factions and languages.
And please stop saying "ask in region" when we know in Silan, most of the time, there's nobody who can answer Grrrr LOL

You can be upset if you want, these language barriers are distracting our communication. I assure I aimed only for cooperation.

And since Jahuu still doesnt understand the point, better be Leave-huu, good luck! =D

The problem is, basically, an exploit.

If a user is blocked in game and that block is circumvented (intentionally or not) by using Rocket Chat, it's an exploit.

Here's a simpler idea... Create a chat called "Atys" where no alien transmissions (e.g. Rocket Chat) are involved. For those who just can't let go of Ryzom -even at work and even though blocked in-game, they may continue to use "UNIVERSE" chat.

Universe chat and Atys chat could be made optional or selectable.

:) It's a non-resolved problem which, like the walking dead, cannot be allowed to continue.