iGOR Chat

The future of iGOR depends on a few things (time, money, usual rubbish real-life business), but rest assured there will be bug fixes and more features included in the near future!

Bugs
Firstly, even though every care has been taken to test iGOR on different machines, and to test every feature thoroughly, I've been in the software business long enough to know that there will be bugs that need fixing ;-)  If you encounter one, no matter how big or small, please let me know at the forums or via email, with as much information as possible on the nature of it so I can set about finding a solution.  It helps no end if you can replicate the bug time and time again :-)



Future Features
Here is a quick summary of features I had intended to include, but removed from the program in order to get the damn thing out!

Race Watches
Flag a race as being 'watched', so that when its status changes you get notified.  Quite useful if you're waiting for a server to cycle to the next track or for a space to appear.

Setup Shop
It's quite minimilistic at the moment- that's because it's only supposed to be a temporary solution to the problem of editing the new gear ratios introduced with the '65 physics.  It's full of bugs and doesn't have anywhere near as many fancy features as GRE, so obviously needs finishing!  If GRE doesn't get upgraded I guess Setup Shop will have to be...

IRC
There are plenty of features missing from the IRC part of iGOR- notably 'Away' (evil IRC protocol), full CTCP/DCC commands, better formatting and interface configuration, multiple server connections (not just multiple channels), etc.  Seeing as how IRC wasn't going to be included in iGOR, think yourself lucky you've got it there ;-) 

Open Paddock Concept
Not entirely sure how this is going to work, but the idea was to have a system where you could turn up with your preferred car(s) and track(s), find a group of other people who match your preferences, then go racing.  Somewhat similar to just asking in chat for a Monza server, but more defined.

Depends really on GPL's popularity, as with different preferences, it would need a few hundred people to get together to fill a grid

User Interface Layout
Are two ways of arranging the chat & racelist not enough?  Maybe not...  plans are afoot to make a third layout where each window is separate and/or dockable.

More...
Yes, there will be more.  Please send me any ideas you have for improvements/changes !


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