New feature: social media

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A new feature for you guys to play with, social media integration.

To start using this system, enter /socialmedia. From this screen you can control the operation of the social media tools. Use the settings button to enroll (or un-enroll) from each service. By default, all available activity types for each service are enabled once enrolled. Uncheck any of the boxes to disable that activity type for that service.

The Status activity type is initiated by the command "/social_status Your status here". The plan is for this to be integrated into the status box in the chat context menu, but for now the command will work.

The Screenshot activity type is initiated by the commands "/social_screenshot <optional title here>" and "/social_screenshot_ui <optional title here>".

The Blog activity type is initiated '/social_blog "Title" "Body"'.

The Level Up activity type is initiated on natural level ups (meaning those from normal XP gains, not sidekicking). For Twitter and Facebook it will post items every 5 levels. For Raptr awards will be posted for every level.

The Perk activity type is initiated by completing a rank 3 or 4 perk (those worth more then 25 points).

The Item activity type is initiated by receiving a purple item.

The Supergroup activity type is initiated by creating, joining, or leaving a supergroup (including being kicked). The posted message with include the character and supergroup name.

If you guys find any problems with it, or have suggestions for things you would like to see added please let us know.

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Seems very cool, will have to mess with it and learn it.

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But how do you link these features to an account? Or is cryptic automatically generating accounts for us on all these social media sites...

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But how do you link these features to an account? Or is cryptic automatically generating accounts for us on all these social media sites...
It differs for each service, but to start the process click on the settings button for each.

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It doesn't seem to be working?

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While I understand why you would do this, I cannot ever see wanting to utilize it. I don't like broadcasting my gaming habits to every corner of the globe. Accordingly, please make this an "opt-in" rather than "opt-out" service.

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It is an opt-in service. If you don't link the game to your accounts it doesn't work.


I made a special facebook page for it to play around with, but so far it won't upload creen shots or even change my status.

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Personally I think the social screenshot feature is the most appealing, especially as gamers mix socially outside of games or as more casual gamers enter the foray. The levelups seem a bit much but again, I can see the appeal depending on who you socialize with.

Big Kudos for pioneering, if nothing else. At least these game updates beat seeing someone's Bejewelled or Farmville update.

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While I understand why you would do this, I cannot ever see wanting to utilize it. I don't like broadcasting my gaming habits to every corner of the globe. Accordingly, please make this an "opt-in" rather than "opt-out" service.

How is it going to know all your Twitter, Facebook, etc. acount details if you don't opt-in?

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/socialmedia







Hey. It doesn't work!

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Arch0n, I felt I should make some sort of derogatory post about your little joke. Then I saw your signature, and I laughed until I cried.

@topic: Great idea. I'll probably use the service just so my Facebook status actually updates once in a while.

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Great feature!, I really like it. I saw the post activated and then:

Thomas Hickey
Emo Girl has completed the perk Vanquished Gigaton!
You have defeated Gigaton
12 minutes ago via Champions Online ·

shows up on my face book and my twitter account, i am sure it will get some odd comments on my Facebook. But its awesome and I can't wait to see go ???NOT BEJEWELLED!

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I really dig things like this...and the fact you gave us the options to customize what iit updates is a major plus. Could i ask that some sort of in game keybinds be put in place or the option to macro them to buttons? The ingame screencap just doesnt cut it

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You can use /bind to bind any command you want, so in this case "/bind Shift+P social_screenshot" or something.

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Facebook is the only service I'm on but the wall posts seem to be working fine. Awesome feature!

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Okay, this is awesome and I've been intrigued by this ever since I first saw the announcement. But I'm very unfamiliar with these various social networking sites. Could the Twitter one (or any of them) be used as sort of a game-to-website interface? For instance, if a website were set up with a Twitter feed that collected all the members of a supergroup, could one of those players tweet something like, "Running xyz missions" and another tweet "Kicking back in the club" and have those both pop up in the website interface for any visitors popping by?

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While I understand why you would do this, I cannot ever see wanting to utilize it. I don't like broadcasting my gaming habits to every corner of the globe. Accordingly, please make this an "opt-in" rather than "opt-out" service.


dont be ashamed ^ ^
hiding is never the answer.

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Well, nice to see you're working on important things in your game then... *sigh*

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Are the social media features per character or account wide?

I'd like to use them for my main, but not have updates on my alts.

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Let's just imagine I played this game all addict and crazy like my last MMO... My Twitter page would be getting hits like every 5 seconds...
And then people would think I am wierd :(

/STAY OUT OF MY SOCIAL MIRAGE
tyvm

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Absolutely blooming love it!

If you could set custom tweet intervals as well that would be cool.

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Well, nice to see you're working on important things in your game then... *sigh*

surprised it took this long for someone to say it.

coderanger is .... a coder. He doesnt develop content, he isnt part of the powers team, he doesnt do art. He writes bits of code. The initial code for the twitter got this same reaction and it was pointed out that this is exactly his job and it took a small amount of time to do.

I love how it always get tossed out like its a terrible thing to have features added at the last minute by people who have the time and ability to do so. Your right they should just sit around and do nothing ;)

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I love it though it doesn't take in to consideration my brighness settings in game, so the screen shots look a bit dark on facebook. Other then that its gold!

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Are the social media features per character or account wide?

I'd like to use them for my main, but not have updates on my alts.
Each enrollment is per-account, but the settings of which services are disabled are per-character. Just uncheck all the boxes on your alts and you should be all set.

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Hey Coderanger, thanks for making this fantastic optional feature in CO, I think some of us really appreciate it.
As far as I can tell most of the basic stuff for facebook is working but in order to get it working, it takes a tad of understanding what is going on. It works but it is sorta confusing. I think a user guide would be much appreciated (from the developers or player written)

I would also like to ask for a feature if possible:

The screenshot posting thing is fantastic but I would like some sorta in-game cropping of the image...Sorta like LittleBigPlanet in game screen shot function where one could frame the screenshot before taking in.

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Hey coderanger, I just had a great idea! Why not take a social_screenshot when sending updates like perks, and leveling so you can see what was going at the time? Then the feature would act like you own little comic for your character, which would be awesome!

would that be possible?

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Each enrollment is per-account, but the settings of which services are disabled are per-character. Just uncheck all the boxes on your alts and you should be all set.

Would it be possible to have an option to make your settings account wide? The enrollment thing makes perfect sense, but I thought that if i set my preferences up once it would carry over to every toon and this resulted in some Twitter spam last night. Perhaps just make this another tab, or button in a tab of your main options and have them carry through just like your graphics settings. On a related note, keybinds really should be treated this way as well. At least I think so.

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Would it be possible to have an option to make your settings account wide? The enrollment thing makes perfect sense, but I thought that if i set my preferences up once it would carry over to every toon and this resulted in some Twitter spam last night. Perhaps just make this another tab, or button in a tab of your main options and have them carry through just like your graphics settings. On a related note, keybinds really should be treated this way as well. At least I think so.

My thoughts exactly.

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What I would like to see is being able to post YouTube videos from within the game.

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What I would like to see is being able to post YouTube videos from within the game.
We looked into it, unfortunately there is no easy, legal way to handle the encoding :-/

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Didn't Spore do something like it though?

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If you guys find any problems with it, or have suggestions for things you would like to see added please let us know.

Only just started playing with it but something that immediately came to mind after seeing the options window - twitpic / yfrog / something support so screenshots can be posted to twitter.

EDIT: Also, no kind of feedback in chat to let you know /social_status has done anything?

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I can attest that the Facebook bits are all working great. I love this option. Great work!

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My friends are going to hate me. :) I LOVE IT!

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My friends are going to hate me. :) I LOVE IT!

The spam does get a little exceesive, along with every hatchling and mafia capo u whack....

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My creator will be pleased by these additional methods to track my progress.

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I'm going to admit....that I'm clueless here....

I have Facebook and Twitter.......how do these post or update to the social networks if it doesn't know where to do so? I can't see where to give it the user name and pass.....

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I'm going to admit....that I'm clueless here....

I have Facebook and Twitter.......how do these post or update to the social networks if it doesn't know where to do so? I can't see where to give it the user name and pass.....

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Typre /socialmedia in your ingame chat, then click settings and it will prompt you to log in the the site you chose.

But I'm having no luck getting a screenshot to appear on facebook.

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Has anyone gotten this to work, I checked facebook settings and it shows the champions online app, but no screenies get posted, am I taking the screenshot wrong?

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Are you using the /social_screenshot command? The PrtScreen key won't do it (yet).

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Are you using the /social_screenshot command? The PrtScreen key won't do it (yet).

On a side note -- is there any way to remap the PrtScreen key? I don't see it in Keybinds, and as I play on a Mac in Boot Camp, I don't actually have a PrtScreen key.

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Are you using the /social_screenshot command? The PrtScreen key won't do it (yet).

Yes, I tried both /social_screenshot and /social_screenshot_ui with no luck. I did try function printscreen but it crashed the game.

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Okay I retried /social_Media and facebook acknowledged I already gave offline and publish stream permissions, I double checked and made sure CO was on my news stream, but still no luck with /social_screenshot.

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The implementation works for me, but the screenshots on Facebook are really small, is it supposed to be this way?

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I've been getting the screenshots to work, but I too wouldn't mind the option of larger images.

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I completely agree, I use a rather large monitor and resolution and the picture is really too small to make out any details. I think even if you were to use half resolution it would be better.

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We send the full-sized screenshot, any scaliing is done by the service itself.

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This post has been edited to remove content which violates the Cryptic Studios Forum Usage Guidelines (http://forums.champions-online.com/announcement.php?f=2&a=6). Thank you, Dionaea

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On a side note -- is there any way to remap the PrtScreen key? I don't see it in Keybinds, and as I play on a Mac in Boot Camp, I don't actually have a PrtScreen key.

Yeah, that should be possible using the bind command. A good trick is to dump your current bindings to to a file using /bind_save_file "filepath" and browse the file.

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Fantastic feature, maybe by facebook will actually get updated now lol

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I just tried to setup social media for Twitter. CO opened a Twitter Link, but Twitter gave an error that the site no longer exists. CO is now asking for a 7 digit pin. How can I get this?


Edit: Finally got this work. I'm guessing that others were also request from the API at the same time. I had reset and try a couple of times before I finally "Caught" the request page.

Edit2: Says I'm successfully enrolled in Twitter but is not auto posting perks and anytime I try social_status Iget Twitter Error (408). Facebook, on the other hand, is working great.

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cool

Now you're going to work on

/deliverpizza

right?

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I just tried to setup social media for Twitter. CO opened a Twitter Link, but Twitter gave an error that the site no longer exists. CO is now asking for a 7 digit pin. How can I get this?


Edit: Finally got this work. I'm guessing that others were also request from the API at the same time. I had reset and try a couple of times before I finally "Caught" the request page.

Edit2: Says I'm successfully enrolled in Twitter but is not auto posting perks and anytime I try social_status Iget Twitter Error (408). Facebook, on the other hand, is working great.
We've seen a number of these here as well. As far as I can tell this is simply the Fail Whale at work, not much we can do but wait for them to sort it out.

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cool

Now you're going to work on

/deliverpizza

right?
You find me a pizza vendor with a real web API, and there is a decent chance it will appear ;-)

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Just one suggestion, Coderanger - I love the integration so far.. Could we have some text feedback in the chat window when something gets sent/posted..

Like, if you set your status, the chat box says "Social networking status successfully set!" or for a screenshot "Screenshot with (or without) UI successfully uploaded to social networks!"

... something like that.. Just so we're not typing into the void, as it were...

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Yes yes the Twitter is broken :(
It hasnt spammed all my progress to my minions... I mean followers...

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I'm lovin' the /tweet and /social_screenshot functions but yeah it won't automatically tweet for me, error 408. :(

Also, I second a confirmation that screenshots have been sent. :P Would make these nifty features even niftier.

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it won't automatically tweet for me, error 408. :(

Seems to be a twitter server issue since last night or so, should get sorted eventually.

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Consdiering how easy it is to break Twitter (it just breaks on its own anywho), we probably all caused too much stress and broke it last night :p

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Just one suggestion, Coderanger - I love the integration so far.. Could we have some text feedback in the chat window when something gets sent/posted..

Like, if you set your status, the chat box says "Social networking status successfully set!" or for a screenshot "Screenshot with (or without) UI successfully uploaded to social networks!"

... something like that.. Just so we're not typing into the void, as it were...

This is really needed.

After some testing, all features that demand player input seem to be working ok, Haven't tested level/perk/item ones yet.

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You find me a pizza vendor with a real web API, and there is a decent chance it will appear ;-)

Domino's had a 5 topping medium pizza for $9.99 CDN! but i think the sale ends in September, they did it last year during the summer also. who wants to cook when your apartment is already cooking.

If for some unknown reason.. please make it a choice that works in N. America... not just the USA. The world doesn't revolve around the USA.. really it doesn't... :p

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You find me a pizza vendor with a real web API, and there is a decent chance it will appear ;-)

I will be looking, and if I find one, and you put it in the UI, you sir or madam will forever be my hero. :)

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I will be looking, and if I find one, and you put it in the UI, you sir or madam will forever be my hero. :)

Try contacting a few pizza companies. Start big, but if they don't co-operate, see if the smaller pizza companies will develop an API for Champions Online to use to allow players to order pizza in-game. Wooo! I'll probably throw it in my PHP QuickChat program as well. :D

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Didn't EQ have this for pizzahut? /pizza supposedly brought up the order screen and such. I have never played EQ, so I don't know if I got the right game.

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You find me a pizza vendor with a real web API, and there is a decent chance it will appear ;-)


You might use this as a starting point ;)

http://www.beigerecords.com/cory/Things_I_Made/PizzaParty

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I got my Facebook and Twitter setup and they both worked great for automatic perk and level messages!

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Awesome, just one thing, when my friend and I created a supergroup, it didn't update my status on facebook that I joined when he created it, it only updated his status that he created it.

Also, it calls it a guild. Eww.

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Awesome integration of social media. Just a request to add WordPress to the list of supported systems.

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Awesome integration of social media. Just a request to add WordPress to the list of supported systems.
As a matter of policy we cannot support any service that requires storing or transmitting passwords in plaintext. All the APIs I have found for WP require sending the password in the clear.

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As a matter of policy we cannot support any service that requires storing or transmitting passwords in plaintext.

Oh, that's a nice policy. I for one am tired of seeing the password anti-pattern in every dratted web 2.whatever mess.

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I signed up for Raptr since it was usable through Social media and I did use /socialmedia to connect it to Champions Online. However it is not updating my Raptr profile at all.

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All works fine for me, and looks good too.

The /social_screenshot command only seems to work with a comment added to the command (like "test"). I don't mind this, though it may make binding the command for repeated use tricky.

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Twitter updates happen way to frequently :(
My peeps are complaining.

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All works fine for me, and looks good too.

The /social_screenshot command only seems to work with a comment added to the command (like "test"). I don't mind this, though it may make binding the command for repeated use tricky.

I found it worked just fine on Facebook without any comment/title added to the end.

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Twitter updates happen way to frequently :(
My peeps are complaining.

Yeah, if you have many (any) followers and tweet everything this allows, you're going to have some unhappy followers.

Scale back what gets tweeted. Personally, I created a separate Twitter account for my toon so I wouldn't run into that problem.

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U guys could stand to put a little info on your facebook profile. Without so much as a description of the game or a link to the homepage most of my friends will have no idea what these posts are about. Might as well capitalize on the free advertising.

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*salutes Coderanger* :cool:

A little late on the bandwagon and still at work but cannot wait to try this stuff out later. The possibility of going through a set of adventures in-world and then being able to pause and blog about it for my Champion kinda... rocks... that adds a really amazing element to roleplaying in the world.

Thank you!

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Twitter updates happen way to frequently :(
My peeps are complaining.

I would advise turning off perk announcements.

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Okay, this is awesome and I've been intrigued by this ever since I first saw the announcement. But I'm very unfamiliar with these various social networking sites. Could the Twitter one (or any of them) be used as sort of a game-to-website interface? For instance, if a website were set up with a Twitter feed that collected all the members of a supergroup, could one of those players tweet something like, "Running xyz missions" and another tweet "Kicking back in the club" and have those both pop up in the website interface for any visitors popping by?

Theoretically, this can be done. I've been thinking through how to do this, if and when I start or join a supergroup. Most of the open source CMS engines (drupal, joomla, mambo) have plug-ins/modules for twitter, so it should be relatively easy to set something up.

You could always start a group on Facebook, limit membership to your SG members, and have an instant SG webpage. The possibilities are quite fascinating! :eek:

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So I was looking over the code today and noticed the Twitter perk function had the wrong threshold. I'm turning that and Facebook down, and turning Raptr up to where Twitter was. This should reduce the spamminess a good bit. Coming Soon to a patch near you :-)

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So I was looking over the code today and noticed the Twitter perk function had the wrong threshold. I'm turning that and Facebook down, and turning Raptr up to where Twitter was. This should reduce the spamminess a good bit. Coming Soon to a patch near you :-)

Cool, at 25 facebook was still a bit too spammy. 50 would probably be nice

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This is freakin sweet sounding! I can't wait to get home and check this out.

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Not to be a whiney ***** (ok thats probably a lie) but do you reckon we could get some bodgy interface for this? Or at least for the blogging feature since composing anything larger than a tweet is going to be annoying at best on a chat line. :p

Would also be nice if the screenshot would popup a UI with a caption request if you don't provide one on the command (so i can bind it to alt-printscreen and have it ask what caption). Alternatively a command that doesn't take a command line and instead take the caption from a small popup would work.

If we had scripting access i'd have written it by now :P (just sayin ;) )

There's another possibility I'd like but it requires more effort to make use of. Having said that, it'd be nice if we could have a generic "interface"(but kind of in reverse) for working with this. The idea would be essentially when setting it up, you give a URL to go to. The program would then send specially crafted requests to that URI for all of the possible options. That way whatever is configured at the URI can decide how to deal with it. Error messages would be ignored (with the possible exception of the screenshot one which could send one request setting up the file transfer and then only actually send the file in the second request if it gets a 200 OK (just to save on bandwidth) ).

Main reason I request this is because facebook is so anal about things like names etc. I'd much rather if i could link it to a blog of my choosing (and i figure it's easier for you to write an api and let me worry about implementing it than implementing it for N different types of blogs etc...). If you did fulfill this i wouldn't be expecting much out of the API. Pretty much something along the lines of a straight push request with parameters along the lines of type, title, body, maybe image (if you want to include things like providing image links of perk badges or items).

P.S. no i'm not expecting you to do the last bit... but i can dream can't I? :)
P.P.S Regarding security. given that this is intended to be mixing with personal URIs passwords aren't so big a deal. Perhaps an arbitrary lengthed shared secret with Date and some extra salt appended and then SHA1ed? (i.e. <secret>:<salt>:<date in YYYYMMDD format> and then sha1ed. Naturally salt would be sent with the request) that way the onus is on the script to check the secret and neither sends anything cleartext.

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Please forgive me I have a couple dumb newbie questions about this now that I've started blogging on one character and plan to on others in the future.

1) Is the blog space for a character given a particular URL or is it simply embedded as part of the character profile in My Characters? Do I need to connect that character blog to a real blog site or twitter or facebook or something in order for it to post outside of the My Champions profile pages?

2) How do I view *other* people's character blogs? Is there a place I can find them and read them where they are all listed? I would like to see what my fellow Champions are up to out there.

Sorry for the newb questions not really done much with all the social networking online stuff til now.

Thank you in advance,

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Please forgive me I have a couple dumb newbie questions about this now that I've started blogging on one character and plan to on others in the future.

1) Is the blog space for a character given a particular URL or is it simply embedded as part of the character profile in My Characters? Do I need to connect that character blog to a real blog site or twitter or facebook or something in order for it to post outside of the My Champions profile pages?

Currently there are a limited number of social network options and on all of them you configure a username and password which is apparantly character specific.

2) How do I view *other* people's character blogs? Is there a place I can find them and read them where they are all listed? I would like to see what my fellow Champions are up to out there.

You would have to find them in whatever social network chosen. There is not and i daresay will never be a cryptic list of accounts. Such would be a breach of privacy.

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I would like to be able to post to the Champions character blog from within the game; the limited space available in one line perfectly suits my character's scatter-brained thought processes.

I absolutely love the idea in general.

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Screenshots on FB are a little too small. A small annoyance: each step in the FB authentication process opens a new browser window. Just have the link in the game use the same browser window. CO is hard enough on systems without turning a 4-click process into a 5 minute lagfest as your PC tries to open a new browser for each one. Otherwise the integration was smooth. I do wish i could see some kind of control options on FB itself. If there are application settings or permissions anywhere on FB for this I didn't find them.

Interesting concept, more fourth wall breakage. I like it. Not sure how desirable it will be for players to showcase just exactly how deeply nerd-tastic they truly are to all their friends and family but hey.

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I'm wondering. Is there a way to take the picture without all the extra menu and chat options on it? I think it takes away from the picture when you have all that extra stuff in it.

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Screenshots on FB are a little too small..

Facebook automatically scales all photos that are too large.

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So I was looking over the code today and noticed the Twitter perk function had the wrong threshold. I'm turning that and Facebook down, and turning Raptr up to where Twitter was. This should reduce the spamminess a good bit. Coming Soon to a patch near you :-)

Yes because that being patched is far more important than fixing whats wrong with the gameplay right now :confused:

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I'm wondering. Is there a way to take the picture without all the extra menu and chat options on it? I think it takes away from the picture when you have all that extra stuff in it.


use screenshot variants rather than screenshotui or screenshot_ui variants.

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You would have to find them in whatever social network chosen. There is not and i daresay will never be a cryptic list of accounts. Such would be a breach of privacy.

Okay maybe I wasnt clear on that one. Cryptic is providing us a way to roleplay and dig deeper into the world by allowing us Character Blogs in our My Champions area. This allows us to write a lot of nifty stories about our characters and things. That means people are deliberately and willfully like any other blog putting information out there to be read by others on the web.

If you go to wordpress or any other blog or social networking site you can always see what sorts of things other people are doing, latest and most popular blogs, etcetc unless the people specifically set their account settings to more private modes.

What I was asking was whether or not there is in fact a website or some other way I'm not seeing at the moment to see what other stories people have written about their characters using the Champions Online My Champions Blog Posting ability so when I run around the game I can go, "Oh yea! I heard stories about that hero!"

Personally I'm using the feature to flesh out backgrounds and origin stories of my various characters because the deep character generation inspires me to want to write more about the Champions I've made which I think is the whole point of why they developed the system this way to begin with. I use the short 500 char bio limit to give a short overview.

I was not in any way shape or form indicating Cryptic should be posting other people's account information or breach privacy regulations or whatever. I hope that was more clearly stated.

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Okay maybe I wasnt clear on that one. Cryptic is providing us a way to roleplay and dig deeper into the world by allowing us Character Blogs in our My Champions area. This allows us to write a lot of nifty stories about our characters and things. That means people are deliberately and willfully like any other blog putting information out there to be read by others on the web.

Aah... my apologies I did misunderstand you. Please disregard my post. :)

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Okay maybe I wasnt clear on that one. Cryptic is providing us a way to roleplay and dig deeper into the world by allowing us Character Blogs in our My Champions area. This allows us to write a lot of nifty stories about our characters and things. That means people are deliberately and willfully like any other blog putting information out there to be read by others on the web.

If you go to wordpress or any other blog or social networking site you can always see what sorts of things other people are doing, latest and most popular blogs, etcetc unless the people specifically set their account settings to more private modes.

What I was asking was whether or not there is in fact a website or some other way I'm not seeing at the moment to see what other stories people have written about their characters using the Champions Online My Champions Blog Posting ability so when I run around the game I can go, "Oh yea! I heard stories about that hero!"

Personally I'm using the feature to flesh out backgrounds and origin stories of my various characters because the deep character generation inspires me to want to write more about the Champions I've made which I think is the whole point of why they developed the system this way to begin with. I use the short 500 char bio limit to give a short overview.

I was not in any way shape or form indicating Cryptic should be posting other people's account information or breach privacy regulations or whatever. I hope that was more clearly stated.
Yes, we are continuing to develop the social features on our website and there are a number of things like this in pipeline. A lot of that stuff got slid back back in favor of more launch critical stuff. As we come down off the crunch time insanity, we will be able to get back to this kind of "just for fun" stuff here and there :-)

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Faaaaaaantastic! Thank you so much Coderanger. Yea I've just mostly been sitting back and watching and playing but this was a really exciting feature so wanted to find out more about how that worked. Greatly appreciate the response! :cool:

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Yes because that being patched is far more important than fixing whats wrong with the gameplay right now :confused:

Because it takes a whole minute of effort to change a number that could have been used ... responding to this post!

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Hey everyone, I'm happy to see people excited about this feature.

I'm the Community Manager at Raptr.com - if you have any questions or comments about the feature please let me know.

I'm going to play mini-salesman right now and advertise Raptr for a bit.

Raptr is the only social network out of the 4 that stores your achievements and allows you to compare them with your friends. We also track and display your Champions Online gameplay. This is on top of all of our existing functionality. Please check it out!

You can contact me at Raptr - Raptr.com/Boxhead, or you can add me in-game. My character name is Boxhead :p. I'll also be periodically stopping by here.

Hope you're all enjoying Champions!

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Need to be able to change the photo album folder for screenshots on Facebook as there is a limit on how much data can be stored per photo album.

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Anyone else getting a "Twitter error: 408"? when trying to post?

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Wait , do we have to type /socialmedia whilst playing the game to enable this social stuff?

Is there a public API? Can I access character data from Champions Online via my own scripts?

Thanks,

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Anyone else getting a "Twitter error: 408"? when trying to post?No idea. I get an error about the token that the game attempts to use not working properly when I try to link my account to CO.

Exact error:
"Woah there!

This page is no longer valid. It looks like someone already used the token information you provided. Please return to the site that sent you to this page and try again … it was probably an honest mistake."

Exact URL:
http://twitter.com/oauth/authorize?oauth_token=%28null%29&oauth_callback=oob

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Is this account wide or does it have to be set up for each character ?

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Is this account wide or does it have to be set up for each character ?
When you set up your account, it becomes effective for all characters - but you need to change the individual settings for each character.

Example: Perks come too fast in the early game, so I disabled them. Then when I made a new character, I had to disable them again because my Facebook page was covered in Perk spam again :)

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Anyone else getting a "Twitter error: 408"? when trying to post?

I figured out what it was. I was using a special character in my Twitter password that was obviously causing problems, probably the ">" character. Changing my password to keep it strictly alpha-numeric resolved the issue.

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I'm still receiving the error about the token, though. Am I alone in this? >_>;

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I'm still receiving the error about the token, though. Am I alone in this? >_>;

I was getting those too. Make sure you close all browser windows. I think it has to do with being logged into Twitter, or having the session still active. Also closing the browser windows that CO opens to activate your Twitter account seemed to help.

The other error I mentioned previously was not related to special characters in the password (as I had originally thought), as I am still getting it. I believe it has to do with being logged into that twitter account from the same IP address. Still researching...

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Yes, we are continuing to develop the social features on our website and there are a number of things like this in pipeline. A lot of that stuff got slid back back in favor of more launch critical stuff. As we come down off the crunch time insanity, we will be able to get back to this kind of "just for fun" stuff here and there :-)

But but: When will the server be up?

I mean: I can't see my characters, I can't rate them, I can't show them off to my friends.
The rest of the functionality is quite mood, without this, I think.

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I was getting those too. Make sure you close all browser windows. I think it has to do with being logged into Twitter, or having the session still active. Also closing the browser windows that CO opens to activate your Twitter account seemed to help.Bleh. Whenever I try to do it without Firefox running, it hard-locks CO. >_<

Oh well. Wish there was a way to configure it outside of game. *sigh*

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Bleh. Whenever I try to do it without Firefox running, it hard-locks CO. >_<

Oh well. Wish there was a way to configure it outside of game. *sigh*

Yeah, CO doesn't seem to like being minimized or windowed. You could try running CO windowed to start with, and have Firefox running as well, but make sure you are completely logged out of Twitter. Might even need to turn off cookies.

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Here's a video demo of how this feature works:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bkLKYzW8Kr0

Here's a profile of a dedicated Champions Player:
http://raptr.com/frankcaron

Hopefully as CO evolves, you'll be able to show off your character outside of game!

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i had the tweet error 408.

I linked again my twitter account to the game and now it works.

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Here's a video demo of how this feature works:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bkLKYzW8Kr0

Here's a profile of a dedicated Champions Player:
http://raptr.com/frankcaron

Hopefully as CO evolves, you'll be able to show off your character outside of game!

You used to be able to ... :(

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i had the tweet error 408.

I linked again my twitter account to the game and now it works.

Resetting and using a new pin seems to work for a short while, but the 408's return soon enough. Definitely not reliable for me.

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It has been 2 days now and still no problem since i re-linked my twitter account.

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The 408 errors seemed to have cleared up. It's been tweeting reliably for the past couple of days as well.

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I get the twitter 408 error as well, worked for 1 day.

But for Facebook seems some of it is working. Perks, Super Group join show up. But I level several times and it didnt show up. Havent tried out the other features for FB yet.

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still no responce from any devs or other players on how to fix the postiong of perks for facebook.

It still spams your facebook however without the title of the perk or the details of it.

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still no responce from any devs or other players on how to fix the postiong of perks for facebook.

It still spams your facebook however without the title of the perk or the details of it.
It is fixed in source here, the change will get to you guys soon.

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Thanks codranger you are my fav dev. You give concise replys and often very promptly. I guess my mistake was posting in technical sup[port forums instead of appending it to this thread.

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Thanks codranger you are my fav dev. You give concise replys and often very promptly. I guess my mistake was posting in technical sup[port forums instead of appending it to this thread.

Hehe, "codranger".

Protector of the seas!

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Hehe, "codranger".

Protector of the seas!

haha opps... Freudian slip?

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A little dissapointed that the fix for facebook perk posting wasnt in the last patch. Is there anyway of knowing when this will be pushed to live?

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It is on the PTS now. I think the plan is to try and cycle builds through roughly once a week, but obviously thats not a solid ETA.

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Resurrection!

When will this be coming back? I'd really like to have this feature for enticing my non-champion friends into the game. :(

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Resurrection!

When will this be coming back? I'd really like to have this feature for enticing my non-champion friends into the game. :(

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By warning you I just broke about seven rules.

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be careful!



By warning you I just broke about seven rules.

DOOOOOOOMMM!! of the forums, anyway.

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Since it's a comment about a still unresolved issue and it's better than starting yet another thread, I don't think it matters.

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and what happen with this feature?

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Maybe you should have removed the thread when it became a feature that you were no longer interested in offering, then I wouldn't have found it in search in the first place...



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This post has been edited to remove content which violates the Atari Community Rules and Policies (http://forums.startrekonline.com/announcement.php?f=120&a=5) ~WishStone...

NEVER question Cryptic.

They don't like that.

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So a paying gold member making a legitimate complaint on a related older forum post (totally new ones I've made have been completely ignored by GMs) is now considered a spammer, even though there was only one post?

I've asked this question before, with no replies made. Finally a GM notices and all they do is give me a yellow card and continue to ignore the issue. Well played Cryptic, well played. ;)

Maybe you should have removed the thread when it became a feature that you were no longer interested in offering, then I wouldn't have found it in search in the first place...

Dude, you're trying to get banned at this point. You're not allowed to talk about moderator action.

Yes the 30 day rule is stupid, we've all said as much, but go say it there, not here.



-Pi

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Closing this thread as it was way, way, WAY past the 30 days mark.

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Is the "close thread" function not working properly ?

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Apparently not...

IBTL

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Closing this thread as it was way, way, WAY past the 30 days mark.

HA!

Try again maybe?

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Well since the thread has posts more recent than 30 days, and has Dev attention...

Are there any plans to bring this feature back ?