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New feature: eRepublik chat module is live!
Dear citizens,
If we would ask 10 passionate eRepublik citizens “what is it that you truly love about eRepublik?” most likely eight out of 10 would answer immediately “the social interactions, of course”. Yes, it is nice to be a hard-worker or a successful company manager, it feels good to conquer other lands or liberate your own, it is an overwhelming experience to become the president of your virtual country. But social interactions, within all possible channels (articles, comments, shouts, PMs, etc) are the salt and pepper. And this is no surprise, as the social interaction was, and forever will be, the very foundation of human civilization. We need to stick together, we need to interact, we need to talk to each others. It is a true primordial need of our existence. Not even those disobeying the conventional social rules (laws) are facing the deprivation of social interaction: it is true that only under strict boundaries, but they still have this right.
eRepublik already had a pretty strong social interaction component, through the existing features. The user generated content reached tremendous levels in the New World, if we add up the hundreds of thousands of articles and millions of comments and PMs our players exchanged. But this was not enough, and we proudly jump to the next level: we now officially announce the launch of the eRepublik chat module! If not the only one, eRepublik is among the very few online web-based games which offers a true real-time massive communication channel. Now, any of you can talk in real-time with any other citizen of eRepublik by using the in-game chat module. Different communities can interact in real-time with other communities thousands of miles apart, all this in-game!
Passionate eRepublik citizens founded many IRC-based national chat channels a long time ago. Their contribution to the New World social development is huge, and for this involvement we would like to sincerely thank them all. As a recognition for their work we have offered them the option to become the founders of the first eRepublik chat rooms. One thing we would like to add: the eRepublik chat module is not competing with the existing IRC fan chats. We are just offering an integrated in-game solution, where citizens are just a click away from all the rooms they might be interested in. Also, the in-game chat module has some features that external chats lack and external chat have features that are not implemented yet in the in-game chat.
Next we will describe the basic characteristics of the eRepublik chat. You can reach the chat through My Places - Chat Rooms. Here you have three sections:
- Chat rooms created by you. If you have a minimum 10 level character, you can create your own chat room, either publicly available or password protected. The cost is 10 GOLD.
- Favorite rooms. Here you have a list of all the rooms added by you as "favorites". This way, you can easily and directly access the rooms you are most interested in. Also, you have the “check rankings” button, which lists all the rooms created by citizens, sorted by number of fans (citizens that added the rooms as favorites)
- Featured rooms. Default rooms for your country (National and Beginners). In the same section you are provided with the list of all other eRepublik National and Beginners rooms, for each country. Also, there is a General room, where many nationalities will mix together.
By clicking any room, you are automatically authenticated and the chat window appears. If not, check your pop-up blockers and add the exception to allow eRepublik pop-ups. Also, check that you have the latest Adobe Flash player plugin installed. As you can see, you cannot change your nickname, and you cannot join a chat room if you are not a citizen of eRepublik. Also, the avatar is extracted from the game, you can not change it either. This way your friends are easily recognizable and no “fake” nicknames are allowed. On the upper part you have the tabs for each room you are logged in. Bellow is the text area, and in the right we have the list with online citizens. By clicking (left-click, not right-click as usual) on any citizen, several options appear:
- send personal message puts the name of the citizen in front of your message, so this way he/she will know that you are talking specifically to him/her. This should not be understood as a private message. This is similar to tab auto-complete option of IRC;
- send whisper: this sends a private message, which only the one you are addressing to will see it. It is similar to “notice” option of IRC;
- request private chat, sends the request for a private conversation in a separate tab. The other citizen must accept the request, before you can start chatting privately.
You can “lock” either the Personal Message or Whisper mode while chatting in the main window, by clicking the little lock near the “Send to,” so that you won't have to repeatedly click your friend and choose one of the options.
On the lower left part of the window, you have several buttons: smiles, output settings like hide/show time, hide/show user avatar, start/stop auto-scroll and clear all the text from the screen. Next you have the sound options. Another feature of the chat module are the predefined messages. By clicking this button a list of predefined messages appear, and by double clicking any of them, the message is automatically written and sent. Of course, you can set up your own predefined messages.
More settings, like showing/hiding system messages, options for the fonts, and styles or colors of different kind of messages (public, own, personal, system messages, etc) as well as sound options, can be reached by opening the “Settings” section, located in the upper right part of the window, between the rooms and help sections. Speaking about the help, we strongly recommend you read it, as it provides intuitive instructions including screen shots. The “Rooms” window lists all the rooms created in eRepublik, and you can sort it by name, online users, or description.
Please bare in mind that the eRepublik chat module is not in its final version, but in alpha phase, which means that for now some issues may occasionally occur. We will constantly work to improve this module and provide you with a cool and fun-to-play-with feature. We kindly ask you to report any problems you may encounter by submitting a ticket to our Feedback department. Also, any suggestions and feedback about the new chat module are welcomed.
What else can we say other than: happy chatting everybody!
Regards,
The eRepublik Team
If we would ask 10 passionate eRepublik citizens “what is it that you truly love about eRepublik?” most likely eight out of 10 would answer immediately “the social interactions, of course”. Yes, it is nice to be a hard-worker or a successful company manager, it feels good to conquer other lands or liberate your own, it is an overwhelming experience to become the president of your virtual country. But social interactions, within all possible channels (articles, comments, shouts, PMs, etc) are the salt and pepper. And this is no surprise, as the social interaction was, and forever will be, the very foundation of human civilization. We need to stick together, we need to interact, we need to talk to each others. It is a true primordial need of our existence. Not even those disobeying the conventional social rules (laws) are facing the deprivation of social interaction: it is true that only under strict boundaries, but they still have this right.
eRepublik already had a pretty strong social interaction component, through the existing features. The user generated content reached tremendous levels in the New World, if we add up the hundreds of thousands of articles and millions of comments and PMs our players exchanged. But this was not enough, and we proudly jump to the next level: we now officially announce the launch of the eRepublik chat module! If not the only one, eRepublik is among the very few online web-based games which offers a true real-time massive communication channel. Now, any of you can talk in real-time with any other citizen of eRepublik by using the in-game chat module. Different communities can interact in real-time with other communities thousands of miles apart, all this in-game!
Passionate eRepublik citizens founded many IRC-based national chat channels a long time ago. Their contribution to the New World social development is huge, and for this involvement we would like to sincerely thank them all. As a recognition for their work we have offered them the option to become the founders of the first eRepublik chat rooms. One thing we would like to add: the eRepublik chat module is not competing with the existing IRC fan chats. We are just offering an integrated in-game solution, where citizens are just a click away from all the rooms they might be interested in. Also, the in-game chat module has some features that external chats lack and external chat have features that are not implemented yet in the in-game chat.
Next we will describe the basic characteristics of the eRepublik chat. You can reach the chat through My Places - Chat Rooms. Here you have three sections:
- Chat rooms created by you. If you have a minimum 10 level character, you can create your own chat room, either publicly available or password protected. The cost is 10 GOLD.
- Favorite rooms. Here you have a list of all the rooms added by you as "favorites". This way, you can easily and directly access the rooms you are most interested in. Also, you have the “check rankings” button, which lists all the rooms created by citizens, sorted by number of fans (citizens that added the rooms as favorites)
- Featured rooms. Default rooms for your country (National and Beginners). In the same section you are provided with the list of all other eRepublik National and Beginners rooms, for each country. Also, there is a General room, where many nationalities will mix together.
By clicking any room, you are automatically authenticated and the chat window appears. If not, check your pop-up blockers and add the exception to allow eRepublik pop-ups. Also, check that you have the latest Adobe Flash player plugin installed. As you can see, you cannot change your nickname, and you cannot join a chat room if you are not a citizen of eRepublik. Also, the avatar is extracted from the game, you can not change it either. This way your friends are easily recognizable and no “fake” nicknames are allowed. On the upper part you have the tabs for each room you are logged in. Bellow is the text area, and in the right we have the list with online citizens. By clicking (left-click, not right-click as usual) on any citizen, several options appear:
- send personal message puts the name of the citizen in front of your message, so this way he/she will know that you are talking specifically to him/her. This should not be understood as a private message. This is similar to tab auto-complete option of IRC;
- send whisper: this sends a private message, which only the one you are addressing to will see it. It is similar to “notice” option of IRC;
- request private chat, sends the request for a private conversation in a separate tab. The other citizen must accept the request, before you can start chatting privately.
You can “lock” either the Personal Message or Whisper mode while chatting in the main window, by clicking the little lock near the “Send to,” so that you won't have to repeatedly click your friend and choose one of the options.
On the lower left part of the window, you have several buttons: smiles, output settings like hide/show time, hide/show user avatar, start/stop auto-scroll and clear all the text from the screen. Next you have the sound options. Another feature of the chat module are the predefined messages. By clicking this button a list of predefined messages appear, and by double clicking any of them, the message is automatically written and sent. Of course, you can set up your own predefined messages.
More settings, like showing/hiding system messages, options for the fonts, and styles or colors of different kind of messages (public, own, personal, system messages, etc) as well as sound options, can be reached by opening the “Settings” section, located in the upper right part of the window, between the rooms and help sections. Speaking about the help, we strongly recommend you read it, as it provides intuitive instructions including screen shots. The “Rooms” window lists all the rooms created in eRepublik, and you can sort it by name, online users, or description.
Please bare in mind that the eRepublik chat module is not in its final version, but in alpha phase, which means that for now some issues may occasionally occur. We will constantly work to improve this module and provide you with a cool and fun-to-play-with feature. We kindly ask you to report any problems you may encounter by submitting a ticket to our Feedback department. Also, any suggestions and feedback about the new chat module are welcomed.
What else can we say other than: happy chatting everybody!
Regards,
The eRepublik Team
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Join chatrooms!
nice!
Worst imployment ever!
ChatMaxx!
10 Gold = Too much
SRBIJAAAA... :p
Vito...
Nice.
I like chats.
Voted... no wait I haven't voted yet...
it is glitching bad right now
10 gold is a lot
Hope those chat rooms will get more active than they were...
omg it's so buggy, can't join from Opera...
WE ALREADY KNOW
Found a vulnerability again. Read your email soon
theres REALLY no more important thing to do??
pop-up chat is lame, ever heard of tabbed browsers ?
<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tab_%28GUI%29" target="_blank">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tab_%28GUI%[..]UI%29</a>
First page
IRC > ALL
whow thats a late anoucnemenyt
Ivan Minkov: Just use the link in your browser(tab):
For example for General chat: <a href="http://www.erepublik.com/en/chat/open/123" target="_blank">http://www.erepublik.com/en/chat/open/12[..]n/123</a>
IRC
BOOM!
10G for a room? we might as well use IRC
Nice feature.
Linux and Mac users with non-latin keyboard layouts look at admins as their enemies, regarding this chat.
I created my room days ago...I wait the eR chat to be more popular. Many people have problem in opening the chat window.
Hay ho Degit degit istanbulun kızlarıııı , Leblebici leblebici..
irc
Swell.
10 gold?
You know IRC is free right?
SRBIJAAAAAA!
old news is old
bull crap
OMG THANKS for inventing the chat!!!!!
still, i'm sticking with IRC.
10 gold?
Are you crazy?
IRC is better (and free)
10g to talk to erep friends on the chatrooms....or 0g to talk to erep friends on IRC??
Can't decide what to do...
Outch!
VOTE
That's nice. Now can you please work on a REAL PM system so that we don't have to resort to GMail?
Probably the only thing this will accomplish is slower servers and more headless chickens
...no vote, again
Simply, open task manager, when you have opened one irc channel and <a href="http://www.erepublik.com," target="_blank">www.erepublik.com,</a> on average machines works nice. Than open eRep chat, and close the irc. Notice the difference in RAM memory used in second case, all because of flash player!
Fail!
CPF Chat FTW!
<a href="http://www.erepublik.com/en/chat/room/226" target="_blank">http://www.erepublik.com/en/chat/room/22[..]/226</a>
Also, Please fix the BUG related with Chats as almost every chat created is automatically eLocated in eRomania - which I for one can ASSURE you they are not.
Other than that, they are quite useful.
Thanks
no vote....
waiting for changes in economic module
ХУЙЁ
Dont like it at all.
Yeah! Let's fix a problem we didn't have
Not needed...
IRC
instead of adding things try fixing the old stuff, ironning out bugs.
And 10 gold for something we get for free on IRC is just stupid.
10 Golds...
LOL!
no needed, we have server Rizon on IRC
lame
Give us new economic modul!!!
nice.
xoxoxo
My opinion is that this IRC can cost even 100 GOLD. As long as everyone is free to pay it or not, to be interested about it or not...shouldn't be any problem.
Besides, 10 GOLD is not that much if you think in perspective, and if you realize that this IRC chat is a great idea for military units or parties
OPTIONAL!
e bas sam pisao tutorial o chatu i admini me pretekli...
jesus what a boring and long introduction about communication and civilization...
:S
what happened with in medias res?
@Biroul de Presa al eUGD
yea, it is too much, because i have a need to chat only with 2-3 eR friends who are also my RL friends, for others there are PMs, and i have to pay 10G for that?? haha, good one. and i have gtalk, msn, facebook, irc, mibbit. all for free. and it isnt buggy nor slowing down my computer as this thing does.
Oh god! I m not in the mood to read all that! I think nobody Is! Too long,put some pictures or something,but less text! Im not going to read this!
@1domagoj1, if you need to chat with 2-3 friends, you can use other IRC servers free of cost. If is that important to chat with them over eR chat, everyone can put 3.3 GOLD from those 10, and the problem is solved, right?
Biroul de presa al eUGD
Basura
@malika ela: if anything, I'd question the privacy of the in-game chat. Especially if you move an army unit in there.
chat + wars= even more awful lagg?
It doesn't open for me ??? Why ?????
@Uplink, of who are you afraid of?
If you mean admins...LOL
If you mean hackers...hm...
niceeeeee . And now update the entire game and make it better
Why implementing such an option, when the game can hardly function as it is, at moments (very important moments mind you)?
Also, what Uplink said. Who or what can guarantee us the safety and privacy of this ingame chat?
Bah. Looks like IRC will be the main chat for quite a while, especially while they try to make us spend more RL money by gouging us 10 gold.
Suggestion for admins:
Get yourself an IRC server, create a web IRC client like mibbit and integrate it into game, allow custom IRC clients for power users.
Problem solved.
Flash is sloowwww (wow, what an oxymoron) . And so is this chat module.
First! Or not?
sweet
fail
eHrvatska!!!!!!
I can't erase the last message to add some text... well, anyway:
PS: Why it take you so much to make an article about the chat?, if I'm not wrong, it was already there like 3 weeks ago or so..., well, anyway,
Admins, stop while it's in alpha! It will gonna be a large waste of budget. I suspect that 98% of citizens wont actually buy private channels for 10 gold...
Well, this chat project is heading towards the EPIC FAIL!
1)Flash - FLASH IS SLOOOOOWW!My PC is old + I don't have the newest version of flash + I don't have the proper drivers.Guess if I will run this thing?
2)This chat looks lame.Why not use Skype or IRC which are light and FREE + they are already established.
3)COST : why should I(or anybody in that matter) pay 10 G for something that is still alpha and buggy + pointless?
Dear developers, please spend your time on things more useful like making a new war module + PVP ,a new economic module or just add a few new countries for teh lulz!Even picking your noses would have been better than this!
EPIC FAIL
you should beter get that new war module working!
IRC pwns this.
Great!
It'll be a while before people even think about switching over to the in-game chats. Nice though that the option is there. If the developers can consolidate more of the off-site activity on to the eRepublik website, it might be easier for noobs to get involved.
I wish they would fix what they have rather then throw more stuff in the mix.
Some ideas for Erepublik (2): <a href="http://www.erepublik.com/en/article/some-ideas-for-erepublik-2--983273/1/20" target="_blank">http://www.erepublik.com/en/article/some[..]1/20</a>
Some ideas for Erepublik: <a href="http://www.erepublik.com/en/article/some-ideas-for-erepublik-for-all-citizens-and-admin--950145/1/20" target="_blank">http://www.erepublik.com/en/article/some[..]/1/20</a>
Too little, too late. This would have been a great feature one and a half years ago.
Now? Not too much.
Next!
WE WANT TO BE ABLE TO SLAP!!!!!
*omg it's so buggy, can't join from Opera...*
cus it blocks pop ups..
nice, but too expensive!
10 gold?!?!
what would we do without this really good awesome chat? thank you admins for this. why would you finish economic module or war module when creating bugged flash chat is easyer.
A day late and a dollar short.
tnQ admin for deleting my Commnet !!!
بزغاله
10G is because admins will ban all other way of IRCing and force all of us to use their own flashchat module the moment it become final.
IRC is still way way way better then this
Also Admins cant ban our IRC Access IRC is not owned by eRepublik
The Cloud Room
<a href="http://www.erepublik.com/en/chat/room/321" target="_blank">http://www.erepublik.com/en/chat/room/32[..]m/321</a>