Custom Channel via guild-info

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Background:

• We use EPGP, we award "standby EP" to people who are on-line but not in 
raid.
• We do not have any alts in the raiding guild, we have a separate "alts 
guild".
• Therefore, EPGP announcements will use the "Custom Channel" feature - so 
people in the alt-
guild can see DKP announcements
• This will be especially important once the automatic "whisper for standby" 
feature goes in.
• It will be CRITICAL if/when the "popup dialogue for standby" goes into the 
EPGP client - the 
client will need to be in the right channel.

Right now, I will have to get everyone to manually join the correct channel, 
and if they drop out 
of the channel, they won't auto-rejoin. Even with the "Do it or no standby EP" 
stick, this is going 
to be a PITA.

SOLUTION

-EPGP-
@CUSTOM_CHANNEL:<channel_name>
-EPGP

The custom channel is guild-wide - I can't think of a reason for it to be 
private or secret. It's the 
same as decay or min_GP - the system doesn't work right if diff people use diff 
settings.

The EPGP mod should auto-join that channel, if it is set.

Original issue reported on code.google.com by rmlane@gmail.com on 4 Dec 2008 at 11:08

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Thats quite a good idea in my opinion.

Original comment by dingochavezz@gmail.com on 5 Dec 2008 at 2:12

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How can you drop out of a channel? I never drop out of channels unless I leave 
them.

Original comment by evlogimenos on 5 Dec 2008 at 8:05

• Changed title: Custom Channel via guild-info
• Added labels: Type-Enhancement, Version-5
• Removed labels: Type-Defect

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"How can you drop out of a channel? I never drop out of channels unless I leave 
them."

I don't know why it happens, but it's moderately frequent for me and several 
other people in-guild. We use a lot 
of custom channels (AJtank, AJhealer, etc), and people fall out of them 
somehow. Client crash, perhaps?

Regardless, it doesn;t seem to make much sense for custom channel to be 
different on different clients. It's not 
that much different to Decay or BaseGP

Original comment by rmlane@gmail.com on 5 Dec 2008 at 8:28

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It does happen occasionally, don't know if its caused by addons, but sometimes 
I need
to rejoin some of our channels when I log on. 

The reason I thinks its a good idea is that is saves having to ask people to 
join the
EPGP channel, they get put in automatically when they log, again this depends 
on the
guild members. People should of course re-join the EPGP channel themselves if 
they
drop out.

Original comment by dingochavezz@gmail.com on 5 Dec 2008 at 8:46

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Mark all as New without owner.

Original comment by evlogimenos on 8 Jan 2009 at 11:03

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Original comment by evlogimenos on 26 Feb 2009 at 12:29

• Changed state: Accepted

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Original comment by evlogimenos on 2 Apr 2009 at 9:14

• Added labels: Module-Core

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Setting custom channel's name in guild's info won't help to non-guild members 
unless
it is set also in all members' guilds. If your situation is two small guilds 
raiding
together, it is ok. It won't work if your guild raids with only a few friends 
from
another guild(s).

I think this setting should be something which master looter sets up at the 
beginning
(actually the chan name might be taken from Guild Info) and master looter's 
addon
tells to other members' addons what is the channel name to join.

Original comment by tomas.klapka on 16 Jun 2009 at 12:17

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Along with issue 319, the same channel could be used to sync standby lists... 
with 
an option to, of course, filter out seeing control messages in the chat window 
unless needing to debug.

Original comment by flfire...@gmail.com on 14 Jul 2009 at 3:17