Wish: Cell phone (or communication device)

[Borr]

Hi all,

I am trying to get in contact with someone ingame to perform a trade. I know we are often online at the same time (i see the globals happening), i have contact on EF, but we have some trouble setting up a meeting.

Wouldn't it be great if i can directly contact this person, even though he/she is not on my friend list. Similar to my real life cell phone i could give my cell phone number to someone that wants to contact me.


How this would be implemented is something different (looted communication device? pay per call? block list? voicemail? texting?)


1: Have you also experienced trouble setting up a meeting with someone ingame?
2: Do you think this would be a solution?
3: Do we need a different solution for this problem? (if yes, which?)


Opinions appreciated!

[Sarah Hawkwood]

You are cutting out the branch you are sitting on. Pay per call? Are you sure you want another way to suck your peds out? Decay, poor return rate and clothing/armor puting on tax is not enough for you? And are you sure that you want that everyone can give your "number" just to everyone else? For example to the beggars? IRL it's not accepted and polite behaviour to give someone's number to anyone without asking the owner. So I do not want to see such option ingame. I'm not very happy with random people adding me to their FLs.
Yes, you are right that we need improvements for communication system ingame. Personally I would like to see: list of contacts, with possibility to create cathegories of contacts and see them in tabs; ingame e-mail, so we could send messages to people who are offline at the moment, text communicator, just like the one we use now, ingame voice communicator. This all should come together with improving the society system, but we had some thread about it already...
About device... I would MA to implement something like Pip Boy from Fallout series. It should be device which every avatar has since being created. This device should have 0 tt and just stay in inventory (like ped card). You could also place it on your forearm (just as cool gadget, it could be used without equipping too). Such device would have an icon on desktop (just one icon instead all those blue ones in the upper right corner of display) and would contain all options we have now (map, action library, transfer center) plus improved communication center with functions mentioned above. I would also add notepad, calculator, web browser, so basically most usefull current PE Ass functions.
I think it's not a big deal for MA modellers to create such device nor for MA scripters to implement it's functions ingame. Removing all those rather useless icons MA placed on our desktop would be good too, more place for our own ones for those, who need lots of them. We would have only minimap (radar), chat window, health bar (which could be reduced anyway) and equipped tool/reload bar. much more tidy, I think.

[Luchomucho]

Originally Posted by Borr

3: Do we need a different solution for this problem? (if yes, which?)

You can use Xfire, anyway a solution ingame would be better...

[Nihilist]

i would hate the cold calling telemarketers trying to sell me sweat for .6

[Soberian]

Simply use ICQ? Or XFire as mentioned before...

Or just tell him/her to go Windowed and have a look on EF every now and then.

[Nicole]

I love this idea , been trying to get in contact with a very old friend that left game .. his name is judge dread , yes I know he has been playing for a long time, but have not come accross him and none of my friends have him on friend list

[Moonfish]

In second life, you just type it into the chat, and when they get on-line, they get the message, they also have voice, which is so good, no need to type you just talk and you can carry on doing what you like. MA hasnt addressed these functions at all.

The problem with finding a person, well, thats like rl, you have to phone them, look them up google them, ask friends, use your head.... email, MSN. Ef them...

Maybe join there soc for 1 day and then add them, and then leave.

Good luck out there
Moonfish

[Acronoid]

Why would you phone someone in another country, unless you love your phonecompany sooooo much you like to make them rich (or you own a phonecompany ofc )

If only it is possible to send a message to any player ingame instead of friends only. I would use it to track down hairdressers and such.

Only downside is if anyone gets an ATH or discover a new weapon, imagine all the messageshe/she would get (not that I would mind that if I got one [ath or new item ])

[Djarro Morgari]

its a nice thing to put in the crafting system, like evry new item imo it is the best to introduce them to crafters instead of looters, there could be a decay on the limited item if you receive the call, and this could be a nice way to get a market like mindessence.

Selling uber cellphone ( only 0.01 pec decay per call) @ boxes

[Acronoid]

Originally Posted by Djarro Morgari

its a nice thing to put in the crafting system, like evry new item imo it is the best to introduce them to crafters instead of looters, there could be a decay on the limited item if you receive the call, and this could be a nice way to get a market like mindessence.

Selling uber cellphone ( only 0.01 pec decay per call) @ boxes

disagreeing with this, why should all new items be crafted? just because ppl lose alot while crafting?
If we would buy our ammo at 180% and loot something useless like an OA we tt, we wouldn't have a return of 40% in the long run.


It should be 50/50 crafted - looted IMHO. but maybe the crafters bring in more decay money for MA, and they want everyone to craft

On the other hand ofc, if it almost never loots, it's beter that it is crafted. but wait a sec:
SUCH A SERVICE SHOULD BE FREE !