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Old 04-11-2001, 11:31 PM
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I think toalls were first intended as a method of public announcements. You'd send a toall to announce a "wedding", a spar tournament, and whatnot. But now, everyone uses mass PMs for that purpose (abusing them in most cases), and toalls are now for carrying on a conversation between you and people on the other side of the map. Because of this, I think it's more than necessary for toalls to be in chat room format. Of course there would be a seperate window for toalls that could be summoned with the press of an Fnumber button.

The current system we have for toalls is just plain messed up. You have no way of reviewing the toalls, and most of the time you don't even know who they're directed to, or even who they're from. But a window would change all that. You'd be able to review them, and maybe even show the player's entire nickname (in tool tip format, like Ms Word). Also, a window could expand the capabilities of toalls. There could be specific channels that you could open and close, so you could hold private conversations with your guild over toalls. Also, you could be able to "tell" a person something, like a private toall.

Maybe someone could even come up with a hypothetical user interface for the window...
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