Yeah, so here goes.
I guess people can't always understand my way of leading in a discussion. As it happens, I will not be choosing to use the chat feature in Call of War, anymore. My reasons will not be discussed here. But suffice to say that, despite my attempts to get along with certain people in the chats, we just don't see eye to eye, and the potential for conflict has taken away from my ability to both enjoy the game as well as use the chats as a good platform in which to communicate with my fellow Call of War community members.
Alas, that conflict is just not worth trying to use the official chat system to communicate with my fellow Call of War community members. For several years, even though I have contributed to both the culture and spirit of this game, I no longer feel welcome within the community that I helped to forge in its current form. Though some few would say my contributions to the community are less than I purport here, my numerous and endless forum posts and many luminous chat discussions — as well as the positive responses of many of those discussions' participants — easily prove the contrary to those others' suppositions.
Unlike many users — if not most — I actually care about the chats and have tried to be a person that both helpfully answers questions as well as tries to keep the various discussions lively and fun. The good people of the Call of War community who remain with the official chat system shall just have to make do without my spirited, colorful, passionate, joyful, and oft eloquent, chat participation.
Though I do enjoy chatting with my fellows in Call of War's chat system, it has become too much of a burden for me to endure. Like many others before me, I have resigned to accept that the in-game chat system is not a place where my contributions can be fully appreciated and thus I must endeavor to find a suitable substitute...one which actually has more than just a small handful of the community participating.
And while I must go out and find my own new chat format, there is a pressing issue with the existing in-game chat that must be dealt with. For you see, even though I would choose to no longer utilize the in-game chat system, it is still casting a burden upon the game for mine — and others' — web browsers. While this problem is not alone in the list of errors and bugs and other unintentional "features" of the game, it should certainly be placed into a priority status.
You see, this current and long-existing problem is the one in which many (if not all) various browsers suffer from a horrible memory leak caused by this game. Now, I've traced the problem....at least, in part....to the near-endless record of past chat messages that keep adding up without getting deleted from the local copy. The extra space required by this and other sequentially-historical elements to the game data continue to demand more and more system memory over time, from when the game page is first opened until you deliberately close it or it crashes from a memory overflow issue. The work-around has always been to close and reopen the web browser....the whole browser.
This problem may never get fixed despite my past pleas to address this very important issue. And it is an issue that certainly is going to require more than just fixing the chat system to fully solve. Perhaps the dev team has less-than-ideal experience in authoring well-constructed memory management design....who's to say? Of course, I would be happy to collaborate with them in improving the situation, should they ever wish to enlist me as one of their chief software architects. However, the odds of them consulting me and my professional expertise are indeed remote.
To the point at hand; for those of us who either choose not to use the in-game chats, or for some reason can't use the chats, we need to be able to remove or disable the chat feature altogether so that at least a portion of the memory space can stop getting sucked up by an inaccessible "feature" of the game. Now, if this ability to disable the chats is already a hidden user control, it's certainly not something that I've learned about in my many solid years of experience with the ins and outs of this game.
So, if there is a way to fully remove the chats, please describe that here. And if not, please forward this sensible request into the hands of those that are able to make that happen. This likely-simplistic new control would create a very easy workaround to at least one of the big problems with this game. Surely there are lots of players that would like to permanently remove the chat feature...or at least be able to check off a box in the front page settings to make the interface not download or load for the game (until such control setting is deliberately unselected).
Anyway, since I won't posit this suggestion in the chats, I do hope that someone on staff takes this request seriously — here in the forums — and elevates this thread to the dev team.
That's all I have to say for now.
I guess people can't always understand my way of leading in a discussion. As it happens, I will not be choosing to use the chat feature in Call of War, anymore. My reasons will not be discussed here. But suffice to say that, despite my attempts to get along with certain people in the chats, we just don't see eye to eye, and the potential for conflict has taken away from my ability to both enjoy the game as well as use the chats as a good platform in which to communicate with my fellow Call of War community members.
Alas, that conflict is just not worth trying to use the official chat system to communicate with my fellow Call of War community members. For several years, even though I have contributed to both the culture and spirit of this game, I no longer feel welcome within the community that I helped to forge in its current form. Though some few would say my contributions to the community are less than I purport here, my numerous and endless forum posts and many luminous chat discussions — as well as the positive responses of many of those discussions' participants — easily prove the contrary to those others' suppositions.
Unlike many users — if not most — I actually care about the chats and have tried to be a person that both helpfully answers questions as well as tries to keep the various discussions lively and fun. The good people of the Call of War community who remain with the official chat system shall just have to make do without my spirited, colorful, passionate, joyful, and oft eloquent, chat participation.
~O~
Though I do enjoy chatting with my fellows in Call of War's chat system, it has become too much of a burden for me to endure. Like many others before me, I have resigned to accept that the in-game chat system is not a place where my contributions can be fully appreciated and thus I must endeavor to find a suitable substitute...one which actually has more than just a small handful of the community participating.
And while I must go out and find my own new chat format, there is a pressing issue with the existing in-game chat that must be dealt with. For you see, even though I would choose to no longer utilize the in-game chat system, it is still casting a burden upon the game for mine — and others' — web browsers. While this problem is not alone in the list of errors and bugs and other unintentional "features" of the game, it should certainly be placed into a priority status.
You see, this current and long-existing problem is the one in which many (if not all) various browsers suffer from a horrible memory leak caused by this game. Now, I've traced the problem....at least, in part....to the near-endless record of past chat messages that keep adding up without getting deleted from the local copy. The extra space required by this and other sequentially-historical elements to the game data continue to demand more and more system memory over time, from when the game page is first opened until you deliberately close it or it crashes from a memory overflow issue. The work-around has always been to close and reopen the web browser....the whole browser.
This problem may never get fixed despite my past pleas to address this very important issue. And it is an issue that certainly is going to require more than just fixing the chat system to fully solve. Perhaps the dev team has less-than-ideal experience in authoring well-constructed memory management design....who's to say? Of course, I would be happy to collaborate with them in improving the situation, should they ever wish to enlist me as one of their chief software architects. However, the odds of them consulting me and my professional expertise are indeed remote.
~O~
To the point at hand; for those of us who either choose not to use the in-game chats, or for some reason can't use the chats, we need to be able to remove or disable the chat feature altogether so that at least a portion of the memory space can stop getting sucked up by an inaccessible "feature" of the game. Now, if this ability to disable the chats is already a hidden user control, it's certainly not something that I've learned about in my many solid years of experience with the ins and outs of this game.
So, if there is a way to fully remove the chats, please describe that here. And if not, please forward this sensible request into the hands of those that are able to make that happen. This likely-simplistic new control would create a very easy workaround to at least one of the big problems with this game. Surely there are lots of players that would like to permanently remove the chat feature...or at least be able to check off a box in the front page settings to make the interface not download or load for the game (until such control setting is deliberately unselected).
Anyway, since I won't posit this suggestion in the chats, I do hope that someone on staff takes this request seriously — here in the forums — and elevates this thread to the dev team.
That's all I have to say for now.
The saying, "beating them into submission until payday", is just golden...pun intended.
R.I.P. Snickers
I have seen a few times on free wifi that I could load the game, but not connect to the chat server.