So yeah, I've been completely MIA for a good 2-3 months. Real life took over and stuff happened. But I'm back now and been at work for the past few days morning to night completely redoing the entire Lobby with @JamieSinn and preparing it for the servers we have planned.

The Lobby has the same map as it previously had, but has now been completely re-worked and re-coded. Everything is much more stable and our environment is 100% ready for any servers we wish to add to ECC at this point. As well, our biggest project, the chat system [& keeping the community together], has finally been completed.

Our biggest focus was our chat system for the network.
The main goal was to keep the community together in a simple way, yet offer them other places to play.

The chat system now spans across all servers, featuring various chat channels that will be global channels.
The network channels currently are as follows:
- Global
- VIP
- AlertSystem, Staff, Admins (for @Moderator 's and up)

There is absolutely nothing special you need to do to chat with people across the network. Simply use the above channels as you regularly would and everything will just work (Even /ignoring a user will work network wide! - Must use exact capitalization if they are not on the same server as you.)

If you are talking in Global, and someone responds to you in Global, should they be in another server you will see a prefix before their message.

Example:


The prefixes currently are as such:
Main server = [M]
Lobby server = [L]

Further more, our most exciting feature of the chat system that finally works smoothly is the PM system. You are able to PM users no matter where they are on the network. Keep one thing in mind however, if they are on the same server as you, capitalization does not matter, however if they are elsewhere on the network, you MUST use exact capitalization.

Example:
If @JamieSinn is on the same server as I am, I can simply "/pm jamiesinn Hello" and it will work.
However, if @JamieSinn is on a different server, I will need to "/pm JamieSinn Hello" for the message to go through.

As well you will be able to tell where your friends are with our PM prefixes:

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Anyways, with all that said, we are absolutely happy with our network setup now and chat system re-work, and feel we are finally ready to throw some more servers on ECC and see where the future takes us .

PS: You can use "/server lobby" as well as "/server main" commands to jump around the servers easily.