So I posted the previous message and realized immediately I’d forgotten about the Twitter connection, which I’ve seen only through a lot of awkward and overzealous tweets that Rey’s account generated while he was playing with this …
This thread is the main discussion of the social tools CO has built in, from the perspective of in-game play.
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.
Presumably this will, in fact, all fall into the UI much more cleanly soon, but … okay, it sounds like (I’m not sitting where I can play with it at the moment) you have (A) activities — blogging, perks, screenshots, items, SGs, leveling, status changes — and (B) services — Twitter, Facebook, and Raptr are mentioned. You can also (further in the thread) tune this to which toons get statused (though you have to control/restrict it for each toon).
I keep thinking there is the potential for some coolness here. There’s also the potential for some serious spewing of unwanted status onto these fora. Hmmm.
I’ve toyed with the idea of getting a separate Twitter channel for gaming stuff. That could then get auto-updates from this Blog and consolidated Tweets from what (very limited) CO Twitter output I would do (I can imagine doing the Levels, and maybe the Perks — mostly as a journaling exercise — though being able to link to Screenshots would be kind of cool!). I will have to ponder that.