Over the years everything seems to have changed, except from the Private Messaging system; The only thing that I've seen that is different is the lack of advertisements on the bottom of each PM and that was gone a looong time ago. Nothing seems to have grown in the private messaging, which is a pretty integral part of the game, it's common throughout all servers nearly. I know that a scripted playerlist is "coming soon" but is that just going to add it in game, taking up more room of my Graal screen?
In enabling HTML to view PM's, they do look much better and most people do have HTML enabled, but what is the point in it? Other then of course, to crash people through it, which you still can apparently. If you take a leaf out of forum software, they usually have everything you'd need (probably more too, especially in an in game discussion environment), and it is restricted, no HTML, "BB code". Basically all PM'ers need is perhaps, Bold, Italics, Underlining, Sizes, Fonts, Colors, Hyperlink Parsing, image viewing, and smilies.
The smilies, well those haven't been updated since I can remember, heck most of them don't even work anymore. Why not use the nice new forum smilies for in game PM's too? I think they'd look good, completely better then the current ones anyway; It promotes a bit of consistency between the forums and the game. However, they're just smilies.
Little bits like this I think would improve things such as functionality and security, plus it'd be nice to see the old being updated before the new comes out. I think things may be slightly focused on new "products" and functions, but it's the current game that is holding the people, and to be honest it might always be the case.
Oh, and if anything is changed please..
please don't make the PM's look like Fisherprice Etch-a-Sketch
04-06-2007, 02:11 AM
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