planetside chat room?

[FrankB]

what about a time limited experiment, Oshyan?
I wouldn't archive anything from the chat at all. People will make posts to the forums when a nice conclusion or idea came from a chat worthwhile doing it. If not, it wasn't all that important most of the time.

Regards,
Frank

[Oshyan]

I just don't have the same faith that you do that people, having already hashed out and discussed an idea in real-time chat, would then bother to go enter it into e.g. the forum or wiki. It's a relative minority that do that for the wiki already, and that's a tool to further distill the sometimes lengthy forum discussions that we would certainly like people to use more. Introducing a chat would seem to further invite fragmentation.

That being said yes, we could run an experiment. But how do we know nothing is being lost? And, having expressed this concern now, certainly people will be more conscious of it, at least initially. But in the long-term?

Nonetheless I will start looking into SMF chat systems to see what is available...

- Oshyan

[Goms]

i actually think that most of the people would concede if your concerns would verify.

but i'm almost sure that most of the stuff that would be discussed there will rather fit the description "random"
also, some great idea or concept would be share in the forum. lets give it a try.

[Blackheart6004]

Mind if I suggest an internal chat system inside Terragen 2 itself like Mojoworld have?

It could be great to have beginners/newcomers learn from the experts/professionals to guided through the program and their own projects live while using it and also to share info on whats wrong with their scene and what can be improved on it as well.

This is only my own opinion and I would let you guys know what you think. 

[Oshyan]

I always found the Mojovox feature very interesting and was surprised to see it as a core part of their app strategy. It did seem to work pretty well for Mojo. I'm not so sure we'd add something like that as we do have a great community here already and it has that nice side-effect of being well logged, searchable, and contributing to our site's Internet relevancy and keyword searches. But Mojovox does illustrate the potential benefits of chat...

- Oshyan