Hey everyone :)
My suggestion is to add a group chat. Right now you can only chat one on one, to your faction or in global, country, company and trade chat. Wouldn't it be cool if we could chat to multiple people that we choose? You could use this for a variety of things such as socialising. The only ways you can talk to more than one person is through global, faction chat or country chats. If you and a couple of other people want to talk in private you all have to be in the same faction or company which is both difficult to do and people generally don't want to quit their faction or company just to chat.
Idea:
There should be another blue icon in the bottom right hand side of the screen and when you click it it opens up a display menu showing all the group chats you are part of and an option to initiate and leave group chats. When you create a group chat it appears where all the other chats are (global etc.) and you get to name the chat whatever you want. From there you can invite people to join the chat and they can either accept or decline that invitation. Then if they accept you and your friends can talk without any complications!
This would greatly enhance in-game experience as you and a few other people could talk about absolutely anything away from prying eyes! E.g. Trades, general chit-chat, group attacks and even just mucking around xD
Right now I'm thinking that the maximum amount of people being able to join any one group chat should be 10.
Group chats is just an idea right now and it is open for suggestions!
Thanks for the consideration.
MasterPop
there is IRC, or some factions use existing Messaging Apps to organise wars and such through group chats. A group chat on Torn may not be an efficient use of resources to implement suggestions... it just wouldnt rank high in changes most sought after
Yeah, that is true. You could just chat on IRC or any messaging app but wouldn't it be a lot easier to keep your chats and game all in one tab instead of having to go back and forth between IRC's and the actual game?
I know you can also split-screen between a chat and torn but personally I enjoy the game much better when it takes up the whole screen.
Not everyone can use IRC or messaging services. I know I don't use IRC (I know how to) and I don't have the time to use a messaging service.
If this was implemented with some rework of the "notifier" system I would be so happy.
The rework being a sound to play on new messages.
I can see why you'd want this, but honestly is there any need for it? Most people that are active enough to want this either use IRC or they're in the same faction / company as their friends so they are able to communicate with each-other as a group via the chat systems that are already there.
I'm not arsed if this gets implemented or not as i wouldn't really utilise the feature. Just use IRC.
Rubbish idea! Why we always have to end up turning everything in chat website?!
The main point of adding a group chat is to remove the need of multiple tabs and for ease and convenience. And what do you mean by "Why do we always have to end up turning everything into a chat website!?". In case you didn't notice Torn is based heavily around being able to communicate to war, trade etc. And one more thing. Please define "Everything". I'm pretty sure we as the general public do not turn everything into a chat website No matter how many chats we add Torn will still be based around the crime aspect of the game
Again, the point is its a easier / nicer to have features. There are a lot of suggestions that should take precedence over this (those that affect actual gameplay)
That does make sense :) There are of course some ideas that take precedence over this, but in the end and idea is an idea. If it turns out well then thats awesome! If it doesn't end up being integrated into the game thats fine as well :)
MasterChat!
What about if you want to chat with 3 different groups of friends? You will still have to open 3 different windows even with your idea right? And do you think 10 people will be enough? If not how many than? What about kicking people from a chat? How you control this? Will you will be THE ONE who can kick the people from your chat?
Look at yourself and your idea: "Wouldn't it be cool if we could chat to multiple people that we choose? You could use this for a variety of things such as socialising"
Not cool at all!
And for socializing you should get out more! You might get better ideas !
Reading this thread and loling.
if you want to chat with people in a group, just make your own channel in irc, that way, you can invite people if you want and ban them if needed.
There really is no need for a group chat on torn
Just admit you suggested this to gain karma lol
Woah mate. Calm down a bit. Half of these you have already answered yourself. This suggestion is still in the so-called "Planning Stage". I have no idea if the person cap should be 2 people or 100 people, that's for the game-makers to decide if this idea gets accepted.
Of course the person who creates the chat controls who goes in and who goes out, after all, It is only Logical :) And what exactly is your point if you want to chat with 3 different groups of friends? You can still see all 3 chats on the same page. My whole idea is to make it easier to chat and remove the inconvenience of multiple tabs. If you have a problem with chat-boxes on your page the only way to solve it for you is if we implement a real-time chat system (audio) which would be even worse.
And I don't socialise alot? Says the guy who has a tantrum over an idea.
I know this idea will have its critics and its supporters and I absolutely respect your standpoint VaflioG. Just don't start criticising every single point with invalid arguments
This idea is just to remove the need for IRC and mutiple tabs for a bit of extra convenience :)
And I don't really see why I need Karma in the end. You can't use it in-game for anything at all really except the VIP forums which unlock at a really high amount of karma.
Yes, yes, yes, yes, and YES
R+ and this needs to happen,
Bump!
R+
I would love to get this considered by the developers! Wouldnt any1 else?
Bump
irc sucks, think most factions/groups use skype, i am in a "random mug" skype group as well where we get together one evening a week and just mug the shit out of randos, although sometimes its more targeted :P