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Hello all,

As you know, the Permission rewrite has been in design for the last month or two (in between other projects!). However, we would really value your feedback at this stage. Please make it very clear which questions you are answering in your feedback

Please be aware that nothing here is a total promise, we're always subject to what is technically and practically possible - sometimes these things aren't discovered until we're actually in dev.

There are several parts to the rewrite:
1. Rank based permissions
2. Clan based permissions
3. Player based permissions
4. Interface overhaul
5. Roll out

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Rank Based permissions
These permissions apply to the ranks in a clan, not the individual people or the clan itself. They are things such as "this rank can edit the noticeboard".





Rank Based permissions that we think are missing and are planning to add:
Change permissions
Change player's clan rank
Change player's clan job title
Can assign avatar warden permission
Change motto
Change motif
Change clan time
Change recruitment status
Change world number
Change flag
Change keywords
Kick clan members from the clan
Broadcast an event reminder
Can schedule or cancel customisation job
Can add to ban list
Can remove from ban list
Can change chat rank
Can lock clan chat from guests
Can mute clan chat for guests
Can edit clan battlefield A
Can edit clan battlefield B
Can edit clan battlefield C
Can edit clan battlefield D
Can change clan name
Can change clan avatar resource gathering state




Currently we believe the following rules to be useful:
- One may alter the permissions of those who have a lower rank than themselves and your rank has been granted permission to change permissions.
- Permissions are not inherited from the rank above but must be specifically granted to that rank.
- The Owner always has all permissions.

This tab will look something like this:

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Clan Based Permissions & Settings
These permissions are set on the clan itself and consist of things like whether or not guests are allowed in your citadel, whether guests can enter your chat channel etc.
The settings are things like your motif, motto, time zone etc.





We will be moving two permissions from the rank tab to this clan permission tab as they fit better here:
Lowest rank that can talk on chat
Lowest rank that can kick guests from chat

The rough layout for this tab is:

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Player Based Permissions
Currently these are things such as "Banned from citadel". They are the permissions assigned on a player by player basis. We are very limited in what we can add here.



We are planning on moving the Avatar warden job functionality to a player based permission checkbox. It will still remain restricted to admin+ ranks as that is required to write to clan data.



Take a look at this mockup and tell us if you think it can be improved, and if so, how.



- The list will be ordered and filtered in the same way as the existing list.
- The 1.2.3. icons for bans correspond to the already existing checkboxes for banning people from various places.
- The avatar checkbox is for removing the functionality from the job title.

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Interface Rework
As you can see from some of the mockups, we're looking at grouping up all the clan based interfaces (where possible) into a parent like interface similar to your Hero interface.

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Roll Out
When we release this project it will also come with a system in which I can retrospectively add permissions and not only restrict them to the owner (as things are now, if I release something with a new permission, only the owner has it!)

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We'll be chatting to you about this for a couple of weeks before we go ahead and solidify the design and then begin dev.


Mod Maz
Queen of the Squirrels