make it like evony's ingame chat, that would be perfect!

world chat (free), alliance chat, and private!

having never played evony, you'll have to explain what you mean? You want us to change how the web chat works? or make it ingame?

I think he is suggesting make it ingame so you have incentive to just idle in your country chatting all day.

But wouldn't that kinda contradict the whole "stay logged out for 12/18 hours to receive bonus turns" thing?

heh possibly

we could make a corresponding "idled in IRC for 18 hours" bonus?

Evony's in-game chat works whether you're logged in to a server or not, so if it were modeled the same it *should* work with the bonus system (in theory)

You get 3 options:

- Full chat: All online players can chat
- Team/Tag chat: Chat w/ players in your tag
- Group chat: Invited individuals only.

The equivalent for EE would be a chat located on the portal page w/ those options able to be applied to individual servers, or the entire game, I think.

I think their player retention rate is primarily due to this feature, as you're greeted immediately on logging into your account with absolute WAVES of chat, and people recruiting all the time - not to mention the enhanced communication abilities w/o 3rd party tools.....well, that and it's crack-like addictiveness :-)

I think this has been suggested in the past, but I am hugely in favor of this idea!

idled in IRC bonuses FTW!

This is a good idea, most people to be honest stay logged into the portal at least, and even putting the chat function there would be an idea.

seems the idea has merit. but when we're already getting extreme lag... might be a bit much?

Currently working on addressing the lag issues tho.