Who is Online --- Regional

by **Collective Systems** » Sat Feb 27, 2010 9:24 pm

Just a small suggestion for who ever deals with these things.

You know on the bottom of the forums, where it says WHO IS ONLINE, followed by of a list of people... who are online. Well, anyways, you should try to implement a feature similar to that is the region section, where it will give a list of everyone who's online that is a member of the same region as you.

You know, just a little suggestion.
Thanks for your time.

by **A mean old man** » Sat Feb 27, 2010 9:52 pm

Not a bad idea.

by **Collective Systems** » Sat Feb 27, 2010 9:53 pm

Thanks. I think it will allow people to know when the region is more socially active.

by **Herrebrugh** » Sun Feb 28, 2010 5:36 am

You could also just use the same online thingy as the one from the forums.

by **Fit battion** » Sun Feb 28, 2010 6:48 am

I like this idea.

by **Charlotte Ryberg** » Sun Feb 28, 2010 10:53 am

In my opinion this has been suggested before and I think this is a good idea, even though I think the "Most Recent Government Activity" bit may be enough, or we could colour the time according to length of activity. Just my opinions and suggestions here.

by **Unibotian WASC Mission** » Sun Feb 28, 2010 11:04 am

*thumbs up*

by **Collective Systems** » Sun Feb 28, 2010 4:24 pm

Thanks. Hopefully one of the techies will see this.

by **Oh my Days** » Mon Mar 01, 2010 1:29 pm

It would be nice as a setting but only as one that can be turned off with no influence cost, it would help gameplayers who are looking around for people to bring in and would be good for RMB posters who know if lots of people are online.

The potential disadvantage I see for gameplayers is that it makes it harder to keep hold of a region, as the delegate couldn't lurk online for several hours, with the intent that no-one will realise s/he is online.

by **Topid** » Mon Mar 01, 2010 2:36 pm

Oh my Days wrote:The potential disadvantage I see for gameplayers is that it makes it harder to keep hold of a region, as the delegate couldn't lurk online for several hours, with the intent that no-one will realise s/he is online.

I'm sorry I don't understand. It is harder to hold a region because people think the delegate (person holding the region) is online? :blink:

by **Unibotian WA Mission** » Tue Mar 02, 2010 10:08 am

Topid wrote:
Oh my Days wrote:The potential disadvantage I see for gameplayers is that it makes it harder to keep hold of a region, as the delegate couldn't lurk online for several hours, with the intent that no-one will realise s/he is online.

I'm sorry I don't understand. It is harder to hold a region because people think the delegate (person holding the region) is online?

I suppose he means that if everyone knows he isn't online, then defenders or raiders know it is a good time to strike.

I think it can work both ways, so the change would probably help both defenders and raiders as it would assure raiders that the opportunity is there to raid, and vice-verse for a liberation with defenders.

by **Sedgistan** » Tue Mar 02, 2010 10:16 am

Someone mentioned a few months back having something displayed on nations that have been online within the last 5 minutes, in a similar way to what we have on the forum. I think the idea was well received, but nothing happened in the end. The response to that bit about invading/defending, was that you don't have to log in to watch a region over update.

by **Mousebumples** » Tue Mar 02, 2010 10:10 pm

Unibotian WA Mission wrote:
Topid wrote:
Oh my Days wrote:The potential disadvantage I see for gameplayers is that it makes it harder to keep hold of a region, as the delegate couldn't lurk online for several hours, with the intent that no-one will realise s/he is online.

I'm sorry I don't understand. It is harder to hold a region because people think the delegate (person holding the region) is online?

I suppose he means that if everyone knows he isn't online, then defenders or raiders know it is a good time to strike.

I think it can work both ways, so the change would probably help both defenders and raiders as it would assure raiders that the opportunity is there to raid, and vice-verse for a liberation with defenders.

I've heard of some delegates logging in as a puppet (regularly) to make it appear as if the delegate is inactive to try to lull raiders into think it's a "good" time to strike.

Of course, this "who's online" thing has yet to be available. Interesting concept, and I think I would support it - especially if there was an "on/off" switch in the Administration Panel for the founder/WA Delegate. Could get a bit out of hand (length-wise) with the feeders/other large regions, though.

by **Collective Systems** » Wed Mar 03, 2010 10:11 am

Mousebumples wrote:Of course, this "who's online" thing has yet to be available. Interesting concept, and I think I would support it - especially if there was an "on/off" switch in the Administration Panel for the founder/WA Delegate. Could get a bit out of hand (length-wise) with the feeders/other large regions, though.

It wouldn't be any worse than the WHO IS ONLINE tab on the bottom of the Index Page, right? I mean, it would have less since it only shows who's online that's also a member of the region.

by **Oh my Days** » Wed Mar 03, 2010 12:16 pm

Sedgistan wrote:Someone mentioned a few months back having something displayed on nations that have been online within the last 5 minutes, in a similar way to what we have on the forum. I think the idea was well received, but nothing happened in the end. The response to that bit about invading/defending, was that you don't have to log in to watch a region over update.

That's true, but a lot of new raiders won't realise that. Not all raiding is well-organised and conducted by large organisations, newer raiders would be even less likely to succeed with this.

by **Neasmyrna** » Thu Mar 04, 2010 2:40 am

I really really like this idea for most UCRs... but I think it would be impractical in the feeders... and would cause problems invading/defending.

Maybe just have the number of people online in a region though? Instead of their names...

by **Oh my Days** » Thu Mar 04, 2010 2:22 pm

The best existing tool to do this is using something like NSeconomy and sorting the nations in a region by last log-in date. I know this doesn't work for very large regions but the same issues might come up with this feature anyway.

by **Usual People In Life** » Sun Mar 07, 2010 6:44 am

Maybe we could comprimise a bit.

The delegate and founder could be set so that they can always see who is online but can choose to hide themselves if they prefer to lull people into a trap.

Everyone else would need to opt out to be hidden which the founder or delegate would have to approve doing so, but they can overide this setting.
Also as my delegate OMD way saying, have an option to knock it off completely for no cost.

It should be no cost as it is not stopping anyone entering or forcing people out of the region.

What do you think?

by **Tomland Union** » Sun Mar 07, 2010 6:47 am

good idea

by **[violet]** » Sun Mar 07, 2010 1:21 pm

I quite like this idea, but if it happens it'd be fairly simple--once you start adding things like allowing the Delegate & Founder to enter invisible mode, you need an interface for that, special code for cloak mode; it all gets harder.

by **Collective Systems** » Sun Mar 07, 2010 1:32 pm

[violet] wrote:I quite like this idea, but if it happens it'd be fairly simple--once you start adding things like allowing the Delegate & Founder to enter invisible mode, you need an interface for that, special code for cloak mode; it all gets harder.

So you will allow it, just not able people to enter invisible mode? Is that what your saying, or am I misunderstanding you?

by **[violet]** » Sun Mar 07, 2010 3:29 pm

I'm not sure what you mean by "allow." I like the idea. I have no objection to it. I'm not about to sit down and write code for it myself, today. If I do one day, it'd probably be a cloak-free implementation, because that's 98% of the same functionality for 20% of the work.

by **Collective Systems** » Sun Mar 07, 2010 3:32 pm

Ah, I see. Well okay, thank you for considering it.
I was never in favor of the invisible-option either, in fact, I was against it.

by **Joshuahood** » Sun Mar 07, 2010 3:32 pm

I like it

EDIT: the regional online thing, not the invisible part.

by **JURISDICTIONS** » Mon Mar 08, 2010 10:28 am

Joshuahood wrote::clap: I like it

EDIT: the regional online thing, not the invisible part.

I second!