Chat

This page should explain the ins and out of the chat box for both humans and Mush. It's not done yet. Don't forget to talk about favorites, announcements, and how to make both!

Made the page more round and hopefully didn't left out anyting. Icons and pictures would be useful to differenciate. GeneralThomas (talk) 07:21, 6 December 2013 (MST)

Basics of communication

In Mush, communication is the key to everything. To accomplish this, you need to have your Walkie Talkie or iTrackie (gained from being a Gold member at least once). If you dropped it, you are unable to receive or send messages until you pick it up again. Only exception to this is a Rebel Base reward, Brainsync .

When writing, you can format it (as seen below), but once it sent, you will not be able to edit or delete them. Use caution and double check when writing sensitive material!

On each tab there is a number showing how many unread messages are there. There are golden borders and a star next to them. You may have read them before, but the game only registers this if your mouse went over it. The other method is to click the button below, making all of them read inside that tab. Once you have sent a message, it will show up a 1 on the tab. Your own message get's a number and starts as unread too.

Types of Tabs

There are different tabs for different uses. Moving from the left, these are:

• Announcements Insert Lightbulb icon here. Only the Comms Officer (Paola at the start) is able to write here, you cannot reply to it. What is written there depends on the Comms Officer, but usually it is used to establish the main short or long term goals. Think of it as objectives, to find a new planet or to defend the ship. If there is a new announcement, it will overwrite the old one, and no archives are made. Because people may not log in as frequent as the Comms Officer, it is usally only refreshed Daily, or once the goals are achieved.
• Room Events Insert event icon here. Technically not a chat, but it is a tab there. This second tab shows what happened in the previous 6 cycles in the room. People with the Tracker skill have full access to movement history. Some things are noted, some are not, as explained in the Actions page.
• Communications Insert book icon here. The third tab is the main chat panel, where most of the conversation with the crew will happen. Everyone with a Walkie Talkie/iTrackie can read and message here without any limit. Every time you don't reply, but write something new it will create a Thread. These can be Favourited. Each time something new is written or replied, it will show up on the top of the page, with older threads descending down. Again, if something is written here, it can't be edited later on.
• Favourites Insert star icon here. Once you have favourited a thread, this tab will show up. Here you can see any thread you favourited. Since usually these are in fewer numbers, important threads can be easiyl accessed here. Writing here will show up as normal for people, or favourite if they have it too. Other people can't see what threads so you have here, nor can be forced to do it against their will.
• Private Messages There can be 3 tabs of these. You open these with the Plus icon, then invite any number of people to it. The invitation can't be refused, but they can leave anytime they want to. If you already have 3 tabs open, new people won't be able to message you. Uninvited people can't see what you are writing here, although if you invite anyone, they WILL be able to see previous messages. It is better to close a tab, then open a fresh one. Invited people can be seen on the top of the tab, and on mouseover the last time of connection can also be seen, if vaguely. Some people use this to see if people are active, but refusing to communicate. If people die or drop their radio, they will automatically be removed.

• Private Mush channel Insert Mush shroom icon here. This in only available to the Mush, and is automatically generated. Doesn't count against the 3 private tabs. It can be used to see your partners and to plan things in discretion. If a new player gets turned to mush, they will automatically join it too. There is a research that hinder this, namely the "Pheromodem".

Text Formatting

Text formatting is done by encapsulating the text with specific special character sequences or corresponding BBCode (not listed BBCode does not work).

Such are:

• Bold: ** or * or [b][/b]
• Italic and red: // or [i][/i]
• CTRL + Enter to return to a new line

Example usage:

**Hello World**
*Hello World*
[b]Hello World[/b]
//Hello World//
[i]Hello World[/i]

outputs:

Hello World 
Hello World
Hello World
Hello World 
Hello World