Post by DaHart85 on Jan 29, 2018 15:13:19 GMT -5
We are moving our support and information to a new home. Discord is an application that has taken over much of the gaming world over the last year or two. Several of us use it extensively for a few other games and it is a severe upgrade to the capabilities JediMUD has had of late. Proboards has served us well, but it's capabilities are a little limited for our use case.
Discord Benefits
Mobile App -- Supported by both Apple and Google for mobile devices and on the appropriate stores.
Notifications -- You can control what chat channels you receive alerts on. You control what you know when not at your computer.
Forums -- It is a voice and chat system, so there are text channels that could essentially replace some of the in-game boards like Commerce and Social.
Commerce -- Want to post current trades and seekings? Throw it in a channel that stays so you are not dependent on being online and posting it so everyone sees it.
Outages -- Accessible independent of the game's locale so easier to converse about what's up in a centralized area.
Quest -- Get notifications on posts in the Quest channel whether this is something related to an on-going quest like our Xmas 2017 was or a new quest being posted.
Direct Messages -- Be able to message specific players when they're not on rather than watching for them to appear.
@ Mentions -- We can provide announcements and things with the @everyone tag to push notifications of things like maintenance, etc.
Voice Chat -- Available, not sure how much it will be utilized, but it's there if you want it. Doesn't cost anything.
DynoBot -- Automation tool used to manage some of the moderation of it and maintain it. Also has a built in music player you can feed
Things to be looked into:
Posting statistics from the game... players online, etc.
Posting happy-hour channel notifications when one starts and for how long
Pushing game-down alerts
Invite Link to create an account and connect:
discord.gg/EQfuEkV
We believe this will be an improvement for our communication capabilities as an admin team and helping facilitate communications between players. We're all adults now, busy adulting, so this provides an option. They've basically built out a mobile capability to be able to stay in communication even while you cannot play.
-Admin Team
Discord Benefits
Mobile App -- Supported by both Apple and Google for mobile devices and on the appropriate stores.
Notifications -- You can control what chat channels you receive alerts on. You control what you know when not at your computer.
Forums -- It is a voice and chat system, so there are text channels that could essentially replace some of the in-game boards like Commerce and Social.
Commerce -- Want to post current trades and seekings? Throw it in a channel that stays so you are not dependent on being online and posting it so everyone sees it.
Outages -- Accessible independent of the game's locale so easier to converse about what's up in a centralized area.
Quest -- Get notifications on posts in the Quest channel whether this is something related to an on-going quest like our Xmas 2017 was or a new quest being posted.
Direct Messages -- Be able to message specific players when they're not on rather than watching for them to appear.
@ Mentions -- We can provide announcements and things with the @everyone tag to push notifications of things like maintenance, etc.
Voice Chat -- Available, not sure how much it will be utilized, but it's there if you want it. Doesn't cost anything.
DynoBot -- Automation tool used to manage some of the moderation of it and maintain it. Also has a built in music player you can feed
Things to be looked into:
Posting statistics from the game... players online, etc.
Posting happy-hour channel notifications when one starts and for how long
Pushing game-down alerts
Invite Link to create an account and connect:
discord.gg/EQfuEkV
We believe this will be an improvement for our communication capabilities as an admin team and helping facilitate communications between players. We're all adults now, busy adulting, so this provides an option. They've basically built out a mobile capability to be able to stay in communication even while you cannot play.
-Admin Team