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Proposal:
Allow alliance leaders to customize forum access by assigning players into anywhere from one to five forum groups and give them access restrictions.
Reason:
Various alliances have special groupings for various posts/info for their players. Each player or group of players have certain responsibilities within an alliance. Access and restricted access to view/write in various forums is required to manage these duties. Currently only 'Hidden' or non-hidden forum sections can be setup, however this is too restrictive. It would be a major improvement to include each player in a Forum Group to gain read and/or write access to various forum sections to restrict/control access in the forums.
Details:
This is an expansion of the 'Hidden' feature of the existing alliance forums. There could be 5 Forum Access Groups, each player can be assigned No Access (blank tick box), read access (grey tick box) or full forum read/write access (full tick box) to the various forum sections. When a player joins an alliance, their default would be Group 1 read only, and would only be allowed to read any Group 1 Forums. Players who have all groups ticked, could access/read/write in all forum sections (ie. founders). Any combination of access to any forum sections can be created this way.
When setting up players / forums, an empty tick box means no access for that player / Forum-Group, single click for a grey tick box means read only access for that player / Forum-Group, another click would make it a full tick which means read/write access for that player / Forum-Group, and to clear it just click again to cycle through.
When creating a new forum section, the player creating it would only be able to set up in their own forum groups (ie. an alliance forum mod creating a new section who only has Group 1/3/4 access could only create those group forum sections).
Visual Aids:
Forum Groups- Player Edit Change:
Forum Groups - Player Display Change:
Forum Groups - Forum Setup:
Forum Groups - Forum Changes:
Balance:
This would require an additional setting for players and all forum sections , and to match them when viewing the alliance forums for filtering out restricted sections/threads, with read/write enabled. If read only access is given and no write access, then there would be no 'REPLY' button in the thread being read for that given player.
Abuse Prevention:
Not possible to 'cheat' as such - this is an alliance forum feature not a game play feature. The usual Forum Mod Authorization still works the same, except players would only be able to moderate in the Forum Groups they have full (read/write) access to.
Summary:
This would allow alliances to fully customize their Alliance Forum Access to the various forum sections/tabs to: new players only (ie a probation forum section), allow full member sections, allow Officer Forum Sections, allow Diplomat Forum Sections, allow Council/Leader sections, allow a Founder Forum Section all independent of each other.
Allow alliance leaders to customize forum access by assigning players into anywhere from one to five forum groups and give them access restrictions.
Reason:
Various alliances have special groupings for various posts/info for their players. Each player or group of players have certain responsibilities within an alliance. Access and restricted access to view/write in various forums is required to manage these duties. Currently only 'Hidden' or non-hidden forum sections can be setup, however this is too restrictive. It would be a major improvement to include each player in a Forum Group to gain read and/or write access to various forum sections to restrict/control access in the forums.
Details:
This is an expansion of the 'Hidden' feature of the existing alliance forums. There could be 5 Forum Access Groups, each player can be assigned No Access (blank tick box), read access (grey tick box) or full forum read/write access (full tick box) to the various forum sections. When a player joins an alliance, their default would be Group 1 read only, and would only be allowed to read any Group 1 Forums. Players who have all groups ticked, could access/read/write in all forum sections (ie. founders). Any combination of access to any forum sections can be created this way.
When setting up players / forums, an empty tick box means no access for that player / Forum-Group, single click for a grey tick box means read only access for that player / Forum-Group, another click would make it a full tick which means read/write access for that player / Forum-Group, and to clear it just click again to cycle through.
When creating a new forum section, the player creating it would only be able to set up in their own forum groups (ie. an alliance forum mod creating a new section who only has Group 1/3/4 access could only create those group forum sections).
Visual Aids:
Forum Groups- Player Edit Change:
Forum Groups - Player Display Change:
Forum Groups - Forum Setup:
Forum Groups - Forum Changes:
Balance:
This would require an additional setting for players and all forum sections , and to match them when viewing the alliance forums for filtering out restricted sections/threads, with read/write enabled. If read only access is given and no write access, then there would be no 'REPLY' button in the thread being read for that given player.
Abuse Prevention:
Not possible to 'cheat' as such - this is an alliance forum feature not a game play feature. The usual Forum Mod Authorization still works the same, except players would only be able to moderate in the Forum Groups they have full (read/write) access to.
Summary:
This would allow alliances to fully customize their Alliance Forum Access to the various forum sections/tabs to: new players only (ie a probation forum section), allow full member sections, allow Officer Forum Sections, allow Diplomat Forum Sections, allow Council/Leader sections, allow a Founder Forum Section all independent of each other.
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5 should work!