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Town bulletin boards would be a nice system to convey messages to other players or make announcements about upcoming events. This would also save the forums of some trolls/experts in making posts insulting and/or making fun of other players. Another plus point is that there will be less need of "Marketplace" section of the forums so in one way it will act as an in-game forum. Just that reply's won't be posted.

Although there might be some minus points involving abuse... But I'm sure this type of system might turn out as big success.

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Taking implementation problems aside, wouldn't ingame bulletin boards also be susceptible to spamming, trolling and insulting other players?

I don't think that it is worth to think about implementing such a system before someone can suggest a way to minimize abuse.

Make people choose words from a list. "Buying", "Selling", "Event at..." etc.

Crush: A curse filter? Maybe that would minimize abuse.

Also "Announcement" in case we give players to chose from.
It also has the plus points. Look on the bright side.

Getafix wrote:Crush: A curse filter? Maybe that would minimize abuse.

Also "Announcement" in case we give players to chose from.
It also has the plus points. Look on the bright side.

Event at: Fu.ck you, c0cksu(kers!

I would rather go for an approach which is more self-administrating.

-Notes can have any arbitary text (within a reasonable character limit, of course)
-A maximum number of ten notes can be on the board at the same time
-Every player can overwrite an existing note
-There is a limit of one note per hour per character to avoid spamming

I think this would result in:
-abusive notes disappearing quickly because they can be removed by anyone who is bothered by them.
-useful notes being reposted frequently when there are more people agreeing than disagreeing with them

This of course only works when the number of constructive people outnumbers the number of jerkasses. But when this is not the case all hope is lost anyway.

One thing I'd like to do under manaserv is a magic newspaper that never has old news (because it's magic!). You can buy them in sets (they disappear after enough uses). In addition to dev team controlled news, we could player advertisements, random auction house entries, etc.

jaxad0127 wrote:One thing I'd like to do under manaserv is a magic newspaper that never has old news (because it's magic!). You can buy them in sets (they disappear after enough uses). In addition to dev team controlled news, we could player advertisements, random auction house entries, etc.

Fluffy plans for future clouds and CRs.