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Message: <blockquote data-quote="WotC_Mel" data-source="post: 2560968" data-attributes="member: 21569">Hello, yes, I requested to be PMed/emailed if there were further questions regarding chat functionality. I thank the user that did so.The questions I see here now are wanting to know what changes will be made to the software and why wasn't the software returned when the description feilds was not able to be expanded.I do not know at this time what changes will ultimately get resolved. I can say that the "whited out" panel that apparently stems from a differnce in the was that MS Java and Sun Java are coded will be resolved in the next applet build.  I learned that yesterday. This was a problem with the code itself and was a broken thing to be fixed. I will continue to work through broken items with Akiva. If there are settings within the chat software that users want that can be set to preferred behavior, I have no problem doing that provided it isnt a moderation problem. For instance, only allowing a user to be "in" one chat room at a time is configurable. Turning off the action exclamation point is an example as well.Then there are requests for changes that would require altering the code of the chat software itself. These are not broken items but ones either do not exist or operate in a manner different from ichat. Wizards does not have access to the code base of the licensed product to implement these requests and does not have plans to try and offer Akiva money to create custom functionality.As to the question why the software was not returned, the answer was already given by a user upthread. In the summer of 03, the Akiva sales team had agreed that the profile area could be expaneded to hold a fuller description. Of course, this was only one item in a whole host of questions I had for chat candidates. The tech department had felt that Chatspace played best with Wizards web back end and had greenlighted its purchase. The license was purchased in October of 03. It was set to be configured and implemented in late spring 04. Midway through the implementation process, the tech doing the work took another job. The work stopped and was not resumed again until Dec 04/Jan 05. The applet had since undergone a major rev and was released as 4.0 which we upgraded to. About this time the presumeably smaller issues like skins and expanding the chat box were now getting attention, and not the larger issues of making log in use boards authentication and having a distributed server configuration. On discussion with the Akiva techs I was told that no the profile box couldnt be expanded. We had know owned the product license for over a year, had the major issues of log in resolved and that salesperson doest even work there any longer. As a missing feature it was disappointing but not dealbreaking. Obviously many of you feel differently. However that was not Wizards perspective on it. As a side note, I did find the possiblity of having profiles pop open a new window that contained a boards post (and you can link individaul posts) offered some interesting possibilities. Including having character portraits and a permanat browsable roster available of all the players in a setting. It seemed (and still seems) like a reasonable work around to me. To many of you it does not.And that is more justification that most people ever receive about a decision making inside a corporation. . .</blockquote>

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