Turbine News for the Week 1/11/06
Posted: Thu Jan 12, 2006 6:39 pm
News for the Week 1/11/06
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Hello everyone. I hope we are all well today. I know in the past few weeks when I have done this update I have answered a few questions and then told you what was going on in the week. For this update I am going to do something a little different.
I wanted to use this opportunity to let you all know about a great new feature going into the game in January (tentatively). When you first log in after the January event goes live you will notice a new “friends†tab on the social panel. This panel will be a list of your friends and their online status, sorted first by online status, and then alphabetically. With this panel you will be able to do all of the things you could do with the existing friends list, as well as some new functionality.
One of the coolest things about this new friends panel is the ability to appear offline. With a simple click of a button you will appear offline to everyone, until you choose to hit the button again. You will be able to send tells to people on your friends list by selecting that person and clicking the send tell button on the panel. This will auto fill the /tell friends name into your chat bar. You will also be able remove friends by selecting them and hitting the remove button. In addition, your friends list will now hold up to 50 people!
Having this new friends panel means that your old friends list will no longer be useful. You will however, be able to type in the command @friends old. This will give you a list of all the people who were on your friends list before the January event. The one drawback to this new system is that you will need to manually enter all of your old friends into your new friends panel.
As far as this week goes, we are in the final stages of QA testing on the January event and we are well into the writing process for February. We also use this time to go over things we want in the future. I won’t get into specifics, but there are some really great ideas that we are looking forward to adding to the game.
Oh yea, before I forget… The tentative launch date for the January event is Wednesday January 18. The name of this event is Reprisals! That means that as long as everything goes according to plans, I will have the LttP out on Friday.
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Andy "Frelorn" Cataldo
AC Community Relations
Turbine, Inc
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Hello everyone. I hope we are all well today. I know in the past few weeks when I have done this update I have answered a few questions and then told you what was going on in the week. For this update I am going to do something a little different.
I wanted to use this opportunity to let you all know about a great new feature going into the game in January (tentatively). When you first log in after the January event goes live you will notice a new “friends†tab on the social panel. This panel will be a list of your friends and their online status, sorted first by online status, and then alphabetically. With this panel you will be able to do all of the things you could do with the existing friends list, as well as some new functionality.
One of the coolest things about this new friends panel is the ability to appear offline. With a simple click of a button you will appear offline to everyone, until you choose to hit the button again. You will be able to send tells to people on your friends list by selecting that person and clicking the send tell button on the panel. This will auto fill the /tell friends name into your chat bar. You will also be able remove friends by selecting them and hitting the remove button. In addition, your friends list will now hold up to 50 people!
Having this new friends panel means that your old friends list will no longer be useful. You will however, be able to type in the command @friends old. This will give you a list of all the people who were on your friends list before the January event. The one drawback to this new system is that you will need to manually enter all of your old friends into your new friends panel.
As far as this week goes, we are in the final stages of QA testing on the January event and we are well into the writing process for February. We also use this time to go over things we want in the future. I won’t get into specifics, but there are some really great ideas that we are looking forward to adding to the game.
Oh yea, before I forget… The tentative launch date for the January event is Wednesday January 18. The name of this event is Reprisals! That means that as long as everything goes according to plans, I will have the LttP out on Friday.
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Andy "Frelorn" Cataldo
AC Community Relations
Turbine, Inc
