fair enough, some of those Ideas aren't mine, like I said it was a thread asking for ideas and I just contributed a few points and the creator clustered everything together.

You're right in that Frizzer will most likely not accept an idea that is so broad

Problem is not in Mail system

Problem is in Chat system, there is no normal chat in Warlight. You should start game, but its not chat, its trick

No KKND
I have spoken to Frizzer several times about this, he would probably ban me if I ask him again. He said its not something he wants to implement at the moment but the chat game is what he suggests. Technically its not a trick, its the official way of communicating.

A complete shit way of communicate but the official nonetheless

personally I don't care about a chat system. most people I would chat with real time, I am on skype with anyway.

I am more interested in improving non-real time communications. The forums suck (no way to subscribe to threads or forums and ignore others without add on tools posted by other players), the clan forums suck even worse (no admin tools at all, even on a private board), the mail system is OK (but again, no ability to add a person to a thread, delete threads, rename threads, etc). Sometimes we use tournaments to chat in as a clan, because we can add people (if you got a new clan mate) unlike mail. The problem is that in tournament chats and game chats...it takes up extra room on those pages, but the biggest issue IMO is that you cannot copy the chat out (only a single line at a time). So that is where mail has an advantage despite the limitations it has.

Basically, we have no great way to communicate non-real time.

Chris can't you speak to Frizzer about changes, you hold some influence as a mod

^You overestimate my influence for sure. I don't think he even knows what the clan league is actually, just as a frame of reference of how well he knows me.

And my 'mod' powers are moving threads to another forum, that is it. I know there are are at least a few other mod powers that exist...and I don't have them. So clearly he trusts other people more than me :)

Mail threads need a huge update. Completely inefficient.

Well, then how come my idea has no votes besides mine?:

http://warlight.uservoice.com/forums/77051-warlight-features/suggestions/10945080-upgrade-mail-system

If you want it, you need to vote for it.

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I suggest moving towards a IM system (like facebook's or steam's), so that you can have a widget that shows you who's online and allows you to easily chat with people and do basic actions like inviting players to a game.

There's plenty of open source IM frameworks (http://ajaxim.com/ just to name one), so the coding work to implement one would be really minimal.

Isn't the Sockets thing part of Fizzer's process to improve the chat system. I recall him saying that it would at some point allow us to know who is online. Considering he released it as a "test" it is perhaps even what is the major point of next update? At least I am hopeful for X-mas.

(Ofc the Mail feature hopefully is improved too)

Edited 12/3/2015 19:16:18

at some point is forever, it takes a while for things to get done. That last seen 15 minutes ago thing has been around since the start of warlight. 15 minutes is a lot of time.