Network Analyst who plays around with many things open source when he is not feeding his MMORPG addiction.
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Minor Social Tool Improvement in EQ2
I've been playing a bit of Everquest 2 lately on one of the newer PvP servers. Last night I accidently stumbled upon this rather useful feature of the game:
If you are not in a guild and you bring up the guild window from the EQ2 menu you are shown a list of guilds on your server that are actively recruiting. It allows guilds to publish a paragraph or two about their guild and set a number of flags. Available flags cover things such as classes and skills needed by the guild, guild type (hardcore vs casual), leadership style (see the shown tooltip for one type), and allowed language level (adult humor vs "family friendly"). All that is missing is an E-bay styled "Buy It Now!" button (though the contact links are pretty close).
Attention Blizzard and Other Game Makers: Please steal this feature.
And no, "Freeps" doesn't have anything to do with a certain blog, it is the in game slang for "Freeport", the evil faction within the game. The other faction "Qeynos" seems to be refered to as simply "Qs" or "qeys". A rather amusing coincidence.
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Bruce Locke's Blog
Network Analyst who plays around with many things open source when he is not feeding his MMORPG addiction.
