Message of the Day

I couldn't find a suggestion like this with Search, but I'm sure it's been thought of before.

I got to thinking in the wee hours of the morning right before I fell asleep about how hard it seems for LL to publicly address the users at times. Sure there are the forums, which I obviously use myself, but I'm sure there are plenty of people who never set foot in the forums. Yes, sometimes little notes pop up as we are loading SL, but how many people pay close attention to the loading screen?

Back when I played Everquest we used to get a Message of The Day (MOTD) every time we logged in. It informed players of scheduled down times for the most part, also the occasional even or some such. We could even set Guild MOTDs so that our guild leader and officers could inform us of important information or events. Wouldn't it be nice to not have to use the voting tool to send out a message to your group?

A simple, short message every time we logged in that could be updated on the fly or added to by Lindens would be very useful in my opinion. In an Everquest fashion:


I imagine this would be hard to implement, or it would already be a feature. It would be nice to receive official information, or even the information on where to get it whenever you logged in. Though I'm sure this would drive some people crazy, so it would need some kind of silly checkbox in the options to turn it off.

Are you suggesting that the MOTD, which only appears on the screen during login, be chatted or IMd to us so that we have a visible record of it?

That can't be hard to implement. The message already appears in our chat history if we select it from the Help menu.

I had never noticed that actually, thank you. It doesn't seem to implant itself in my chat history when selected from the help menu however.

I think my hope was for a message that was more like a current announcement than a random tip.

Clicking Message Of The Day tells me how to find a plot of first land. Wouldn't it be more helpful today to explain what was released in the latest update, or even that it was updated?