Chat Update

Submitted by TerribleTrioJoe on Fri, 08/13/2010 - 14:07

Hey guys, Chat 2.0 has been added to hackwars!!! There are still a few bugs, but that's what beta testing is all about. Enjoy, and please leave any bug reports in the forums or send them to us some other way. Also, many thanks to aoi222 who was the primary developer of Chat 2.0; without him we probably wouldn't have a new chat, ever.

Please see http://hackwars.net/wiki/index.php/Chat for info on the new chat commands. This info is also available ingame at Help>About on the chat window.

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Other updates

-- ~Game Messages pane has been separated from chat, and is it's own window. This will eventually evolve into a console once we get chat polished off.

-- Network Map bug with DoSCDatabank has been fixed.

-- Zombie windows now initialize with target port 0 instead of the zombie source port (requested by lord13).

-- Pasting IPs into IP Panels now use trim() - no more trailing whitespace at the end! (requested by lord13).

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Hey everybody, Sorry about

Submitted by aoi222 on Mon, 08/16/2010 - 12:02.

Hey everybody,

Sorry about the problems that are occurring with the new chat system. We are working to implement fixes. I've started a bug tracking post on the source forge site specific to chat. Please check it out and add comments if there are any other bugs that need to be fixed that I didn't cover.

https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&aid=3046362&group_id=268486...

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Give a man a fish and he eats for a day. Teach him how to fish and you get rid of him all weekend.

Poll on the chat list. Should

Submitted by aoi222 on Mon, 08/16/2010 - 14:15.

Poll on the chat list.

Should I change it so that the chat list is always displayed in Gen-0 and Trade-0 and not just when an admin starts it up? Is the hidden chat list actually something people like to have or should I just remove it entirely and make it so the chat list always appears?

From what I was told, when the user list wasn't displayed in Gen-0 everyone was talking in Help-0.

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Give a man a fish and he eats for a day. Teach him how to fish and you get rid of him all weekend.

Have the user list always

Submitted by jonc on Mon, 08/16/2010 - 18:02.

Have the user list always displayed, even without an admin. If people want to hide they can use the autojoin channel and remove all themselves from joining the main channels.

Although I couldn't enjoy

Submitted by Silverlight on Mon, 08/16/2010 - 18:07.

Although I couldn't enjoy chat 2.0 yet I dislike the idea of hidden chat lists. One of the downsides of a hidden chat list is that it makes whispering harder (on the other hand our audience should already know about IRC and how to use a keyboard).

I like the idea of having

Submitted by TerribleTrioJoe on Mon, 08/16/2010 - 19:17.

I like the idea of having lurker channels (where you can't see the userlist and only see people talking) I feel that general-0 and help-0 should always have the user list, but I still would like there to be channels without a user list. That would create an interesting effect in the trade channel perhaps, as someone advertises a product and then you could whisper a reply, not knowing who else might be bidding against you. As for private channels, the creator can always start up the user list if he wants it, and clan channels which may have different admins would probably have rules about that. That's my $0.02

-TTJ

(Im in ur compilerz lolin' ur codez !)

Please clear cache and reload

Submitted by TerribleTrioJoe on Tue, 08/17/2010 - 20:35.

Please clear cache and reload the play pages, as we have updated again to fix the bugs we noticed in chat 2.0

-TTJ

(Im in ur compilerz lolin' ur codez !)