Hey All!
I am almost done with the work on the new colony management system, and most of what I have already done has gone live! Though if you read to the bottom, you will see a new feature that I plan to implement in the coming weeks that will really spruce things up for our members, with the use of platinums!
If you go firstly to this page and have a look for yourself as a colony leader:
I’ve made it even easier for you to change your colony details, such as its name, and even change your custom professions and species to suit your lands.
There is even a new and improved Colony Chat for colonies with more than 2 members in them.
I found that the old chat wasn’t getting the use it was designed for. This new one, allows you to automatically request a Discord channel be created for your colony on our official discord channel! Any chat you type into your colony chat window, or through your Discord chat, will flow between both systems - allowing you to stay organised as a colony, even while on the move and out of Second Life!
We then have a Colony Stores section, which allows your members to view all of the storage units set to “Colony” security - search through every storage with a search field for quick management, and even moving items between all the storage at the flick of a finger, without having to be in-world:
But don’t worry about theft too much here. We built in an audit log showing all movements done from the website and from in-world as well:
The next exciting part of colony management system is the ability to see what’s going on overall, called “On the Workbenches”, which includes all your crafting stations, fields, gatherables and huntables out in world:
You can seew what each stage is up to, and even “flag” tasks to your members, so that when they come online, they can come to the colony management page and see what management would like them to focus on before anything else:
When your member is done with a task, they can mark it as done.
We are even adding the ability for a colony manager to see a list of all known recipes as a colony as a whole (without showing recipe ingredients). So you might be a leader that has never done smithing, but you can point your smith that knows how to make a blade, to make 10 x blades from the list.
The next part of the colony management system lets you see your members at a glance. Set them as a manager (who can help with invitations and accepting join requests), and even setting player titles that show up on the meter in-world.
You can also invite members directly, instead of having to get them to come to your colony sign in-world if you want to!
We will be improving on this system more over the next week or so and really ironing it out to be more useful. Perhaps colony run vendors that link to your storage and so on. But a really nice feature I am working on now will be for members with platinum coins only. The ability to use platinums to open up a special “overall” vision, and actually “do” things from the page itself without having to be in-world at all for a limited about of time.
Such as, setting all the fields to seed, to harvest, to water. Setting crafting stations to start crafting X with colony storage ingredients and so on, from the colony page that has also been made to be mobile friendly!
So you could be out on holidays away from your computer, and still run everything, without having to jump in-world.
Open to your thoughts on this one!
Enjoy!