{"id":148,"date":"2012-01-07T08:19:23","date_gmt":"2012-01-07T06:19:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.freecivbook.com\/blog\/?p=148"},"modified":"2012-01-07T08:32:45","modified_gmt":"2012-01-07T06:32:45","slug":"mastering-communications","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.freecivbook.com\/blog\/2012\/01\/07\/mastering-communications\/","title":{"rendered":"Mastering communications"},"content":{"rendered":"

Freeciv has an integrated chatline with some useful features to help communicate with your co-players. I’ll try to reveal here some of the key points to help to communicate with players.<\/p>\n

Contacting through Longturn website<\/h3>\n

When playing Longturn.org’s games, sometimes the best way to contact is using Longturn’s website. You can send messages to users from their profile page. For example when a player is idling they might still read their emails. However, some players don’t provide their email addresses.<\/p>\n

Private messages<\/h3>\n

You can send private messages to players by their player name from the Chat dialog.<\/p>\n

For example, write “Jhh: Hello<\/em>” to send a private message to me.<\/p>\n

However if you intent that message to be public to everyone try for example to write “jhh, Hello<\/em>“.<\/p>\n

Messages to allies<\/h3>\n

The easiest way to write messages to allies is to check in the box in the GTK client for it (right bottom corner). However you can also write messages with a leading dot. For example, “. Hello allies!<\/em>“.<\/p>\n

Referencing to City or Map location<\/h3>\n

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The most useful feature of the integrated chat might be the ability to reference locations and cities from the map.<\/p>\n

If you go to the map and move your mouse over a specific tile, and then hit ctrl, alt and right mouse button, there will be a special reference tag in your chat input ready to be used in your conversations. (Sometimes you might need to start writing a message before it goes there.)<\/p>\n

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After you write a message with that tag there will be a link on the chat message and other users can easily find about where you linked by clicking it. Also, the map shows a special square over that tile.<\/p>\n

You can clear links in the GTK client by using Clear link<\/em> -button (right-bottom corner of chat dialog). Clicking those links again will mark them on the map again.<\/p>\n

Referencing to units<\/h3>\n

You can link to units almost the same way by shortcut Shift-Control-Alt-MouseRightClick<\/em> on a unit on the map.<\/p>\n

More<\/h3>\n

See more from Freeciv’s Help -> Chatline<\/em>.<\/p>\n

Update:<\/strong><\/p>\n

You can change options from client so that chat messages are written also to Messages tab from (GTK client) Game -> Options -> Message<\/em> and enable check box for Mes column for Chat messages. Remember to hit Game -> Options -> Save options now<\/em> after you change settings.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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