Chat Event

[Arilou]

Hey, so awhile ago I proposed setting up a chat event where everyone could gather at a specific time to reminisce and talk about the state of the game or whatever. I didn't get much of a response, so I never bothered. However, I am planning to send out a mass email to all 900+ forum members for something in very near future (possibly even today) and I thought this might a good opportunity to broach the chat event idea again as I can promote it in that same mass email.

At present, I am thinking that December 30th would be a good day for this as it falls on a weekend when most people have their winter break. But if you have a better day in mind, let me know and also let me know what times you think would work best for you. Is midday good? Evening? How late into midday/evening? How early? Also would you want to do it in the chatbox (note that I can reduce the delay so new messages appear instantaneously) or do you want set up a special chat somewhere else? If the latter, someone would have to do that and give me a link to point people to.

Respond quickly if this interests you as I don't know how long it will be before I send that email out. Also, tell your friends who may not check here often to weigh in if it interests them. Is this something you guys really want or am I wasting my time?

[Odolf]

Sounds good, I'm up for it!

[Brionac]

This is what im thankful for.

I'm down.

[Frosten]

Great idea.

[Bullfrogz]

With the recent news, especially, I'd be very interested in talking to you and the rest of the Wizards!

[Jacksparow]

I'd prefer a Thurs-Sat event. I work most of the rest of the week. Gotta love 10 hour shifts. But I know one person won't effect the needs of the masses.

[Cuchulain]

Sounds good.

[Nightswift]

I'm looking forward to this

[Arilou]

Would you guys like to simply use a Xat chatroom for the event on the 28th? Apparently some of you were on the one that Newnagaraga linked to awhile back. Did you like it? Are there any limitations (e.g. limits on the number of people who can chat at once) that you didn't like? For those of you who haven't tried it you can play around with the one listed in this thread and let me know if you like it: http://www.wyvernrpg.com/forum/showthread.php?t=2438 If you guys want to go with that I'll make my own chat through Xat and post a link. If you guys hate it, do you have any alternatives in mind? Bullfrogz suggested one, but it had a cap on the number of people who could play without paying. Although that's fairly standard, I thought it was quite egregious that they had a pay option that only bought you 14 days where you could have unlimited users on at once. Anyway, aside from that I would again like to point out that we can very easily use the chat box if there are no objections (I can remove the refresh delay so chats appear instantly).

[Frosten]

Originally Posted by Arilou

Would you guys like to simply use a Xat chatroom for the event on the 28th? Apparently some of you were on the one that Newnagaraga linked to awhile back. Did you like it? Are there any limitations (e.g. limits on the number of people who can chat at once) that you didn't like? For those of you who haven't tried it you can play around with the one listed in this thread and let me know if you like it: http://www.wyvernrpg.com/forum/showthread.php?t=2438 If you guys want to go with that I'll make my own chat through Xat and post a link. If you guys hate it, do you have any alternatives in mind? Bullfrogz suggested one, but it had a cap on the number of people who could play without paying. Although that's fairly standard, I thought it was quite egregious that they had a pay option that only bought you 14 days where you could have unlimited users on at once. Anyway, aside from that I would again like to point out that we can very easily use the chat box if there are no objections (I can remove the refresh delay so chats appear instantly).

If you don't use Xat and simply use the chatbox, we will most likely be on Mumble (seeing that we are on there pretty much every day).

I don't know what the limitations are for the Mumble server but it is pretty effective and--once configured-- blocks out random outside noise.

I'm up for anything, though.

[Arilou]

Mumble is a voice chat only? If so, I'll take your post for Xat as while you and your friends may like to voice chat, it's not really useful if a lot of random people show up.

Anyone else have something add? I will look into and set up whatever you guys think is best. So if it be Xat or something else that you happen to know about, definitely say what you want and whatever the consensus seems to be from those who respond is what we will go with.

[Bullfrogz]

Mumble won't be a good option Frosten. It's mainly for voice chat, and when just the few of us are in it it works fine but I don't know how many people will show up so it will be hard to predict the load it puts on my server.

[Jacksparow]

I think using the forum supported chat would be the best option. It would make it less complicated for those who aren't active on the forum. The email if they read it gave a link to the forum and I think adding more links would just create frustration with having to register on something else (if need be). But I do agree that you would need to take away the delay if you want people to be actively chatting at a larger scale.