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Speak a friends title...others probably won't see the sentence! CONFIRMED
flamanar:
UPDATE 10/19: this is no longer a 'bug'. This was intentionally done by VFK for 'safety reasons'.
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For those that haven't come across this yet, it is now not possible to mention one of your friends titles in a sentence and have another person who doesn't have that friend on their list see your SENTENCE. Follow with me here for an example:
I have a clone titled "Blech". He's a fun guy that we use as a noun, verb, whatever. For example: "that broccoli I had last night for dinner tasted blech." If I said that in a room, anyone who didn't have 'Blech' on their friends list would not see that entire SENTENCE. At all. Disturbing? Ya. We could be talking about things and others could just not see a few important lines...because someones title that was used in those lines made those lines INVISIBLE to the people in the room who didn't have that persons title on their friends list.
We found out about this awhile back when having a conversation with one of our friends in our group. They were trying to tell us something about a person on their friends list. We kept asking who it was? This friend kept saying the title...but we didn't see anything they were saying. Our friend told us the title a bunch of times and nobody heard it...nor any sentence our friend spoke with the title in it...because nobody else had that friend on our friends list. Needless to say, we all eventually just nodded...then started looking around the room for this friends lost marbles...LOL.
Just an FYI for everyone out there.
Flamanar...hoping it's just a blech bug, personally...
funfly:
--- Quote from: flamanar on August 15, 2009, 12:16 PM --- Our friend told us the title a bunch of times and nobody heard it...nor any sentence our friend spoke with the title in it...because nobody else had that friend on our friends list. Needless to say, we all eventually just nodded...then started looking around the room for this friends lost marbles...LOL.
It still hasn't been fixed, and I'm not sure if it's something that VFK did intentionally. I do know that it will lead to a TON of confusion if it isn't fixed or put back.
Just an FYI for everyone out there.
Flamanar...hoping it's just a blech bug, personally... :notme:
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Everyone in the room would see it though if the person with "Blech" title was in the same room though, yes?
I hope it is just a blech bug, and hope they fix it soon. Difficult enough to talk without this whole thing too.
- found one of their lost marbles....nvm, mothball :hmm: -
PrincessWendyBird:
Flame, have you reported this to them? Sounds more like a bug to me, wouldn't make any sense otherwise. It would make communication practically impossible because nobody would know what was being seen by others in a conversation. Unless some players (nobody from here, of course :bighug: ) were creating clones with titles to use them in an inappropriate or abusive way. If so, maybe they are tinkering with seeing if they can stop it from being seen. Maybe even start big, then see if they can easily isolate one characters speech.
I have heard of a few folks who are banned from the garden and the Medieval map for a month due to behavior. I have only heard of this, but it seems to be true. Whenever these folks try to go to the garden, they are automatically booted back to their room. Sucks for them if any quests need to go there. :uhuh: But that is what happens when you misbehave. :lolg:
flamanar:
--- Quote from: PrincessWendyBird on August 15, 2009, 09:58 PM ---Flame, have you reported this to them? Sounds more like a bug to me, wouldn't make any sense otherwise. It would make communication practically impossible because nobody would know what was being seen by others in a conversation. Unless some players (nobody from here, of course :bighug: ) were creating clones with titles to use them in an inappropriate or abusive way. If so, maybe they are tinkering with seeing if they can stop it from being seen. Maybe even start big, then see if they can easily isolate one characters speech.
I have heard of a few folks who are banned from the garden and the Medieval map for a month due to behavior. I have only heard of this, but it seems to be true. Whenever these folks try to go to the garden, they are automatically booted back to their room. Sucks for them if any quests need to go there. :uhuh: But that is what happens when you misbehave. :lolg:
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Lol. Very true, Wendy :)
It was reported a while back by someone else in our group. I'll be reporting it too since it is continuing. Sometimes I try to give VFK time once one person reports a problem to get it fixed. It's hard to know when to send in my report after that, though. lol. We've been testing it off and on as we remember it...and it still happens. A sentence containing a friend on my list will not be seen by another person from our group who does not have that person on their friends list.
You may be onto something there with what you posted...trying something out on a large scale, and then narrowing it down to see if it will work on a smaller, more isolated scale. Would be handy for 'problem people'.
Auto-boot the 'bad apples' from map or garden? LOL. I love it! Way to go VFK! :clap1:
Flamanar
Astro:
Ooooooh! I didn't know about either of these things.
I've been in trade rooms before where a whole entire sentence is just a white chat bubble. Is that what is happening? Or, the sentence doesn't show up at all? I only knew about the sentence not showing up, if someone had used the words "Elf Island" in the sentence.
And the auto-booting of people from the garden, that is hysterical! That's great that VFK is doing that, didn't know about that either. :2thunbs: But ... I tend to avoid the garden at all costs if possible. :sur: It has gotten quite nasty there as of late.
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