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Aug 2, 2001, 6:18pm

Here's a letter of suggestions I sent to AWC:

Privacy mode - just like ICQ invisible mode, you won't be seen as online to
anyone.

Telegram sent history - so we know what people are replying to.

Privilege Password Security - this is the biggest feature needed. I just
cannot understand why it hasn't been added. We need to able to kick people
off our privilege password in case they start causing trouble. Also, it
would be nice to know who is on our ppw at the time. I've been building on
AW everyday for 2 and half years now. I really trust my friends with my ppw
but what if we got in a fight? I can't say that it'll never happen...

Telegram mute - just like chat mute.

Citnumber mute - mutes their citnumber rather than their citname, because if
they change their name they can talk to you again.

Bot mute - This is the second most important feature that needs to be added.
Please listen to this...I've tried to run events in the past in Alphaworld,
and I usually get around 15 people to come. Then some loser comes around
and brings in a bot that greets EVERYONE. Thereby, the chat gets flooded
with greetings. Muting does no good because all you gotta do is restart the
bot and the mute is cancelled. I cannot run my events when people do that
and it's a real shame because I put in countless hours preparing these
events. By the time I time I get a PK there it's too late and people are
too frustrated and leave =(

G.E.T. - The people working at Garbage Elimination Team do their best, but
there just isn't enough people there. Whenever you request help, it takes
2-3 weeks to get it removed...I just don't see why it would take that
long...

AWGZ fixup - The most popular world in Alphaworld has one of the crummiest
GZs in the universe. Sorry if this offends anyone, but ask around. You got
overlapping objects, mismatching textures, and it just isn't that easy on
the eye. There are many talented builders out there, perhaps you should get
some examples from them. Oh yea, also, all those teleports in the NE go to
abandoned and old and even ugly places. This is practically AWs first
impression (besides AWGate)! Something needs to be done.

Tourist ID - Tourists can get away with nearly anything because they have no
ID. If you want to vandalize, you do it in tourist mode and you'll probably
get away with it. If you wanna run a muck at an event, once again you do it
in tourist mode. Tourists should get accounts just like citizens, except
they are free and have the same rights that tourists have now. Confirmation
of the account would be sent through email.

Word blocker - just like how ICQ can replace "bad words" with *

Aug 2, 2001, 6:48pm

there is a way to appear invisible- its a bug lol
just ask peoplearound-notgonna say on ng in case
aw actually tries tofix it

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Aug 2, 2001, 6:51pm

Yes I already know, you disconnect from your isp. I call it ghost mode...


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Aug 2, 2001, 9:07pm

*shrug* Fixing it would not be in their interests, after all, they're too busy implementing NT4 support for the 30 people that try
to use NT4 anymore. Can we get Win95A support next?
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Aug 2, 2001, 9:29pm

Ignore that, just realized that the only reason NT4 is getting supported is OGL *durh*
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Aug 3, 2001, 8:06pm

If anyone's interested in Roland's comments about these, here's his reply:
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Hi Sam,

thanks for your feedback. I suppose you would not find it too
surprising that everything you suggested has been suggested before,
many times, by many people. They have not been done yet for
a simple reason: a lack of time.

One comment. You said "this is the biggest feature needed.
I just cannot understand why it hasn't been added."

You might be surprised that if you go around the AW users and
ask "what's the biggest feature needed in AW", you'll get
almost as many different answers as people you ask. Some
common themes will pop up of course (the biggest one at the
moment being the need to block telegrams.) I've had maybe
three people, total, ever mention that they'd like to be
able to kick people off of their privileges on the fly (there
are some technical reasons why this isn't so easy to do).
This is compared to the hundreds of people that have
complained about not being able to block telegrams.
This means I would probably tackle the latter problem sooner
than the former.

At the reunion in Las Vegas in my seminar I asked
everyone in the room what feature they would add next if
they were in charge of AW development. There were about 30
people there and I got about 25 different answers.

What's my point? Well, this means that from my point of
view, no matter how many important new features we add,
people will always be complaining "[x] is the single most
important thing we need and I can't understand why it
hasn't been done." Even if there were 10 of me working
on AW instead of only 1, this would still be the case.
So, I'm asking you to please be patient and understand
that we, quite literally, have thousands of different users
asking us for hundreds of different features. The most
obvious feature to you may not necessarily be the highest
priority for others. The reality is, in a given year,
I'm only going to have time to get to a few dozen new features
at most. The rest will have to wait until the next year. :)

Also, one other note: issues like G.E.T.
Thanks,
Roland

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