Hedge Wars CLANS
Tue, 2009-11-24 22:13
Today i saw the first HW clan, and it gave me an idea
why dont we have the posiblility to make a oficial clan? would be good 
it could work like this:
- Each account have the chance to make a new oficial clan from the website(only one posible clan per account).
- The clan will have a name(who wants) and a abbreviation with colored characters(max of 5). Example:
clan name: First hedgewars CLaN
short: FHC - Each player have also the chance to join a clan, how? :who want to join the clan talk with the master, and if he wants, will send an invitation to join his clan. And then the new member aceppt it.
- Finally in the game, it would show the nicks like this:
(if i am DJ.LIST acount and member in FLAC clan)
[FLAC] DJ.LIST
[*FLAC] DJ.LIST (a star if you are the leader)
I mean the game automatically gives you the clan word, and the rest is your account nick.
but i love the idea
me,too(;
by the way: welcome in [FHC]!
But there only have to be colorcodes available in Nickname like $66cc00[F$666633H$ffff33C]Thomas
http://html-color-codes.com/
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Clan Tag .. why not? But to be honest I don't like color/icon codes within nick/clan/guild names.
Implementation side this can get rather tricky, it makes names a lot longer and you have to modify everything that renders names, even if it's provided by third party libs (e.g. qt).
However the biggest problem could be abusing (and it's impossible to control everyone all the time):
Imagine someone using a nickname like "unC0RrX". Wonder about the space at the end? Select the text. Such things won't work everywhere etc. but it still allows you to do weird things. Another example: "faucik"
I won't stop anyone from implementing it, but I'm not a huge fan of such things.
no.
Don't want to be negative, but I don't think this one feature would be worth the trouble;
plus as soon as the "flags" feature is implemented I'm sure you will miss this tag thingies even less!
Oh, Fox!
Thats really a word!
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You've seen the flags preview/mashup on the frontpage news some time ago? Just go back some pages if you missed it.
ok, but the question is if the flags will be automaticly uploaded...
I dont think everyone will download our flag from hedgewars.org just to see who is in our clan or not...
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The flag will just be a few KB in size so it can be transmitted while the game is starting or at the lobby.
Great!!!
Would be nice if that would work with maps, too at least in next version
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The flags were part of the .12 initial plans but then the schedule to get .12 out came faster than expected and that feature got completely dropped out for that version or something like that.
But i believe they will bring that to .13
...like i sayed: I hope the Map-feature, too! I told it so often to the Admins and many others would like to see that feature, how many people dont play cause they have to download a map and unzip it in the right folder... thats really too unnecessary, cause it worked in Worms, so why shouldnt it work here. Its also the same with Tombstones, you paint one and everyone sees your toombstone in worms...
The first time you download a map from another player may take long, but then you have it saved and everything is ok;)
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Graves and masks would be acceptable to enable, but the maps can be huge, not sure if that's gonna be possible next version or ever.
Lets focus on the flags for now!
Small status update.
There won't be any direct way to exchange images (maps, graves, hats, flags) without any kind of verification soon. Neither maps, hats graves nor flags.
But I could think of some kind of repository where you're able to submit your images for review. If accepted (i.e. no simple "garbage", adult content or forbidden icons) other people's games would be able to download those on demand while loading or while in lobby.
Sure, games such as Worms had direct exchange, but afaik you weren't able to use multiple colors etc. (just sky or landscape) and therefor it was a lot harder to abuse it. I've seen tons of people using curse words or words you wouldn't use while around children as nicknames in Hedgewars. I don't think we should give them a platform to show off more "cool" skills by allowing them to add not just words but pictures as well.
multiple colors were possible and used but singlecolormaps were faster to download, so more often used in clans...
with 1000mb/s it was 10 secs, i think for a fullcolor map
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In order to avoid fakers and liers you can extend your username-database and add field for clans and a password to it. The login prompt window should be changed though in order to offer the user to enter these.
Clans can be displayed as a separate column in the lobby and in the room. If you make flag-transfer possible, you can even make the game show players' or clans flags instead. To see an image is a much better and faster way to determine who's who instead of fasten your peepers on a small tag.
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Here is my Unofficial Manual for HW. Hope you like it.
Still working on it. Don't worry. Will get it finished...Sometime in the future. 
Yesterday we had a discussion durning a game about map loading time.
The thing is that in my opinion we could make a map category: online.
those maps would be 1024x512, and only black and white. And the system would round them up to
2048x1024 with an algoritm. Removing colors from a map greatly enhances compressibility, and i think
that it will make possible for maps to be on under 64K each. Thats 12 seconds for modem users, i think, that is a usable size. For the maps to be better looking we could use the themes, wo objects ofcourse.
for clans: i like the idea of clans, but i do not think that they require specific things from the game.
Or did the world change that moutch to be a bounch of faking maniacs? In that case.
For the colors issues : i think that colors in names are bad. In MSN, in ET, and pretty mouch everywhere.
A system generated unique ID would do more. Allowing to query it from the server and being saved in to replays would make possible to know whenever it was the original guy or not.
i think its a cool idea that maps can be downloaded by linking in the forum...
so they would be moderated. The game checks if the url is linked in forum and then downloads automaticly, would this be possible?
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Not exactly that way but similar ... maybe.
If people want custom flags that badly...
a new section could be added to the forum account where the user can upload his own custom flag, if approved the option "Custom flag" would appear in game and automatically link everyone to that user flag url automatically or something like that if selected.
I really like the clan thing but it should not be that well-made, just a simple thing so you easily can see what clan the player belongs to... :P
[WAM]
how many clans are there? and what do you play? if anybody want to play a fun 2v2 plz pm me!
Me and three friends has just started our own clan
Please visit https://sites.google.com/site/thewamklan/ if you want to
[WAM]