Boulder Dude said:

Well that explains why Bud Strong and all of your characters weren't on last night.

*** Dave said:

Yuppers.

By the way, is there an easy way to centralize a friends list? It's a real pain (for me) to have to keep the list up on each of my characters.

Avocet said:

Dang! I wish I'd known! I added Bud Strong to my friends list, but of course, he was never online while I was playing my new character. There really needs to be a "Player Online" feature. I think I'll submit that idea.

Boulder Dude said:

Don't know...It could be like the bind save thing.

*** Dave said:

Hmmmm. I wonder if using the Global Chat (now in beta) is a way around having to coord friends lists.

Avocet said:

That's probably what we're looking for! The PDF indicates that there's a Friends List that indicates the character being played.

We'll probably want to create a channel that we can always use to chat amongst ourselves. "Justice Squad," maybe? Or something shorter, like "JS"?

It looks like our handles will be whatever character we first logged in as when the global chat server went live. I'm assuming my handle is Avocet, but the chatserver is down right now, so /myhandle isn't working. I'm not sure if I should keep that, or change to a handle that won't be confused with a character.

(Hey, there's a guy called Savage Cop who looks remarkably like Savage Dragon!)

But wait! The Friends list doesn't seem to be any different when I'm in Global. The PDF mentions a Global tab and a Server tab. I don't have a Server tab.

All right, somebody smarter than me is going to have toi figure this out. The PDF doesn't seem to bear much relation to the actual Global Chat.

*** Dave said:

Well, it is a beta ...

David said:

If anyone has a character level 10 or above, you could start a supergroup. Then you can always keep track of who's on, as which guy.

I recommend giving at least 2 different people the High Honcho position, to improve the odds of one being around for honcho-esque duties.

Ian said:

I think the issue here is that we would like to keep in contact with each other, but not necessarily be in the same supergroup. That's one spot where I find CoH sorely lacking.

In the MUSH/MUX/MUD world, I was spoiled by having a lot of flexibility in my emotes and in communications. There were pages (implied out of character), whispers (in character), says (in character), and poses (in character). In CoH, you basically have tells (pages), says and emotes (poses), and the latter doesn't give you the /nospace option so that you can type things like "Catwoman's tail lashes about."

What I miss most, though, is multi-faction channels. Create a channel, populate it with the folks you want, turn it on and off as you deem necessary (during downtime, I don't mind having it on, during a fight, I do mind), and otherwise be able to keep channels open for various groups.

You're never part of just one group. You're part of a Venn diagram of groups and it'd be nice for each of those groups to have a channel. I'd like a Bear's Cave channel and an RP channel and a Defenders channel or something like that. It'd make communication a lot easier and, hell, maybe actually see some more RP. The game plays too much like an arcade game for me right now for me to feel like I can RP in it with any flexibility. That's just my impression.

*** Dave said:

Agreed, Ian.