IDEA: Junk FCC

Dolphin · Post by **Dolphin** » Fri Jun 16, 2006 9:03 am

Mua, are you going to submit this to Madace for an official vote, or do I need to?

Nightmare · Post by **Nightmare** » Fri Jun 16, 2006 9:07 am

I truely hate FCC, my PC was crashing all the time lately and I couldn't even talk to people and explain what happened cuz I got FCCed after 3 lines of typing -_-.

Drop FCC.

Nightmare

CaptainNuge · Post by **CaptainNuge** » Fri Jun 16, 2006 12:07 pm

For those of us who have no idea what in under the Sun the FCC is, is it a filter?

Dolphin · Post by **Dolphin** » Fri Jun 16, 2006 12:11 pm

Its supposedly designed to keep people from spamming, but if you type in shout just engaging in conversation, many encounter this.

Most of us believe the /ignore function is a good way to stop spammers anyways, so we say junk the FCC, because it doesn't stop spammers, it stops you from engaging in conversation when shouting.

Rohirrim · Post by **Rohirrim** » Fri Jun 16, 2006 1:51 pm

Dolphin wrote:Its supposedly designed to keep people from spamming, but if you type in shout just engaging in conversation, many encounter this.

Most of us believe the /ignore function is a good way to stop spammers anyways, so we say junk the FCC, because it doesn't stop spammers, it stops you from engaging in conversation when shouting.

Couldn't have said it better myself.

Zavrith · Post by **Zavrith** » Fri Jun 16, 2006 4:06 pm

I think that whether or not you get FCC'd is relational to how long you've been online. Because you can get FCC'd as Nightmare said after three lines when he just logged back in, where as if you've been there for hours I've shouted HUGE lengthy conversations and not had a problem.

Nightmare · Post by **Nightmare** » Fri Jun 16, 2006 4:35 pm

Zavrith wrote:I think that whether or not you get FCC'd is relational to how long you've been online. Because you can get FCC'd as Nightmare said after three lines when he just logged back in, where as if you've been there for hours I've shouted HUGE lengthy conversations and not had a problem.

I hadn't logged in in 24h

.

My PC crashed right after I prtscd a crazy good joke, now I have to find the guy told it to me again and ask him if he remembers the joke(s)

.

Nightmare

RedLeader · Post by **RedLeader** » Fri Jun 16, 2006 5:31 pm

i disagree, keep it.

fc102 · Post by **fc102** » Fri Jun 16, 2006 6:27 pm

The other day I was in the middle of a big conversation - You guessed it, several topics going on at once

- and the FCC prevented me from participating. By the time it let me back in the conversation had moved on. It gets really annoying.

BTW, what do the initials FCC stand for, anyway?

Wrapper · Post by **Wrapper** » Sat Jun 17, 2006 1:19 am

Fcc should be removed

ignore works a lot better than fcc anyways

or at least make fcc work only for people who try to spam maybe 3-4 messages a second

Mua'Dib · Post by **Mua'Dib** » Sat Jun 17, 2006 4:32 am

FCC as it is now is inferior to /ignore as far as achieving it's goal(anti-spam), yet it also has the effect of stifling actual conversation between 3 or more people if they arent in the same corp.

Btw im not fully keeping up with this madace system but yeah whatever the submit thing is i want to push that button.

Dolphin · Post by **Dolphin** » Sat Jun 17, 2006 5:38 am

You need to pm him with the topic link and final idea mua.

Dolphin · Post by **Dolphin** » Sat Jun 17, 2006 9:31 pm

Alright guys. Here are the two options we should decide between before we ready it for a final vote. So decide which of the two below we should do. I sau we should have it fixed to only stop spam and not legitimate convo.

Choose one or both that you like for the final idea:
Junk the FCC or have it fixed to only stop spam and not legitimate conversation.[/b]

Mua'Dib · Post by **Mua'Dib** » Sat Jun 17, 2006 9:50 pm

/ignore is sufficient to stop spam.

Junk it

Dolphin · Post by **Dolphin** » Sat Jun 17, 2006 9:53 pm

Well Mua, its your idea anyways, if thats your final idea, post it and PM it to madace. If this fails, I'll start a topic about having it fixed to only stop spam and not convo.

UPDATE, don't pm him anymore. Post the final idea and link to thread here. http://www.starportgame.com/phpBB2/view ... 4074#54074

stillsob · Post by **stillsob** » Mon Jun 19, 2006 1:33 am

Olterin wrote:It only appears if you talk A LOT in universal shouts... as far as i know nowhere else. And yes, the idea of shutting down shouts for a person who's upset (majority vote) would be nice, some people just can't get over the loss of their ship or something like that

Yeah Put A Permanent Ignore on Me

Dolphin · Post by **Dolphin** » Mon Jun 19, 2006 10:55 pm

I guess Mua hasn't gotten to this yet so I'll submit it for vote.

FINAL IDEA:
Get rid of the FCC.

All it does is stop legitimate conversation instead of spam. We also have an /ignore function which works nicely.

Ralf the Dog · Post by **Ralf the Dog** » Tue Jun 20, 2006 1:54 am

For all the people asking what the real FCC is, it is Federal Comunications Commission, the American branch of the goverment that regulates radio communication. They do things like make sure two TV stations next door are not on the same frequency.

www.fcc.gov

Supersith · Post by **Supersith** » Tue Jun 20, 2006 2:05 am

Yeah, I hate it when it says I shout to much, cause almost always it's relevant, but you can't mess with the guys at the Freakin' FCC.

Rohirrim · Post by **Rohirrim** » Wed Jun 21, 2006 4:34 am

if this idea doesn't go to vote i don't know what player suggested idea would. this doesn't even require any work. it'd be just as easy as removing the xp/rep adjusts. just find the FCC code and hit the DEL button. GG FCC.

Mua'Dib · Post by **Mua'Dib** » Wed Jun 21, 2006 6:25 am

yay i vote yes

Bagheera · Post by **Bagheera** » Wed Jun 21, 2006 6:27 am

ditto

Dolphin · Post by **Dolphin** » Wed Jun 21, 2006 8:00 am

This topic is up for vote now, someone should sticky this.

Mua'Dib · Post by **Mua'Dib** » Tue Jul 11, 2006 12:47 am

Genesis · Post by **Genesis** » Tue Jul 11, 2006 3:36 pm

I say scrap it- When I'm invading and my squad gets murdered (ha, they all suck at invading XD) I cannot communicate because I'm too busy shouting out orders to outside groups and other squads invading. Mass invasion rocks

But back to the point. It stops me from effectively communicating and "telling" other players is too lengthy. Especially if they have a long, confusing name, and I get blown up for glancing at their name, trying to type it.

MadAce · Post by **MadAce** » Tue Jul 11, 2006 3:39 pm

/tc somepersoninothercorp tell that corp what you write.

Also think about using ventrillo and teamspeak.

It helps.

Zach · Post by **Zach** » Tue Jul 11, 2006 4:24 pm

I've never gotten the FCC but I'm voting against it on principle. Just ignore people if they talk to much.

Starport: Galactic Empires

IDEA: Junk FCC

Should the FCC "overshouting" feature be removed?