Game! - Where the stick is mightier than the sword!

I'd like to see more announcements in the tavern. Like if something gets posted in the swap shop.

Hmm... I was thinking about creating RSS feeds for the Market and the Swap Shop. Tavern announcements would be more realtime than RSS, but only noticeable if you have Game! open and the Tavern open.

Another consideration is that most people regularly leave the Tavern closed, so they wouldn't see those messages at all. Also, Market multiselling could be overwhelming, unless in that case the message was just something like "Rux has stocked the Market with 829 new items" instead of "Rux has stocked the Market with a Stick, selling for 1,000,000 gold pieces" 829 times over.

probably an update every 5 minutes
50 new items in the market
1 new request in the swap shop

Rux wrote:probably an update every 5 minutes
50 new items in the market
1 new request in the swap shop

Ah... That could work too. If there were no new items, would there be a message?

if there's no items then no message.

other possibilities

"congratulations to X for making it to level n!"

"The wise sage reports that X has made it to the top 10 y!"

"Everyone wish good luck to x on the y quest"

"X has just finished the y quest"

"X has just finished his nth quest"

"Just a reminder rux is awesome! and humble too"

I'm thinking the messages should probably be toggleable via the preferences. Mainly I'm concerned that the extra messages could drown out player messages, then again perhaps people are more interested in market/swap shop updates than general Tavern banter.

I'll probably do the extra RSS feeds first.

maybe a town announcement board for some of the things like quest completions, level ups, and the like.

This idea strikes me as better now than it did then... I'm bumping it so I'm less likely to forget about it again.