by Teron » Fri Dec 30, 2016 5:36 am
1. Fluffy, search for playrpgbot on telegram and play around with it. There you can at least wander around and kill some mobs. While it's hard to swap eq there, it may still be possible to play with the limited commands and farm easy/gold mobs.
2. I've thought about the "I'm dead button" - it could also pull your area location from the dynamic map. Or, if you can pull info from the mud, area, room name and mob short descs in the room as well.
3. The idea of making the website responsive/adaptive is great, because, mostly, we'd use it if we could on mobile phones. The "I'm dead" button and alerts is precisely what the website lacks. And mass broadcast alerts in case of groups/quests, though websites now can mass-alert people too, if it is enabled.
4. WoW has a mobile app and it enables one to chat ingame in the guild. Here's how it works:
- you launch the app
- you appear online in your guild chat/friends list under Name (mobile_icon)
- you can chat with your guild, and ppl would see your messages
- if you login, your session is replaced with your desktop client (and you might still receive messages in your app, but I don't remember this)
- you can also buy stuff from auction or sell stuff from anywhere on your character (bags, banks = inv, robes, vaults)
All in all, it can be seamless, no need to age the character ingame.
I'd personally use the app to chat ingame and stuff, but my primary use of website via mobile is to check the online presence, as I've described earlier.
5. As for eq, in my chatting experience, I seldomly need to look up eq, while I'm in bed or in the mobile chat.
Perhaps, we need to identify use cases for what people actually need in a mobile app specifically. I've listed my priorities, an i'm dead button is good as well. I'd use the "raise the dead" button more, though.
Fluffy, "is available in the usual browser" is not a reason not to do it in mobile. The mobile app would be better integrated and usable on mobile, than the website. Unless it's responsive and is heavily integrated as the mobile app.
So:
- ingame chat
- i'm dead button
- mass group alerts
- check online + groups
- new forum posts
- auction
- eq
- map
what else might we need?