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New Global Character System

A new system for managing and displaying game characters is now live!
Let’s check out what’s new:

Global Characters



You will find a new section in your dashboard called "Characters”. Here you can:

• Add characters for any game you play to your global profile.
• See all your characters organized by game, with core statistics displayed.
• Quick add your characters to any community you join in the future.
• Manage your global characters or per site character list.
• Force update characters anytime which are linked to an armory or game database.

New Add Character System

• New streamlined user interface
• Quick add function, let you add characters quickly from your global list to new sites.
• Auto-add characters to your global list when adding to a community.
• Select from a library of game specific avatars or upload you own.
• Auto imports your character avatar for supported games.
• Displays site games as covers for easy character adding.
• New add character function added in Admin > Teams section for admins.

Character Avatar System

• Users can now select from a library of avatars for popular games.
• If supported, avatars automatically matches to the character type selection.
• You can upload a custom avatar per character.
• Reset your avatar to use the default image or the imported character image.
• More avatar libraries will be added for major games or as requested.

Profile Characters & Widget



Your profile will display your global and community characters.
A new widget appears in the bottom right column of your profile and displays up to 5 global characters from your various games.

There appears to be some confusion as to how the new channel set up is working. Complaints have been that folks don't know what channel they are in and I can understand that with the subchannels at the top of the list, it doesn't work well.  What will help is to use the option to set Users to be above channels.

1. Open mumble and go to Configure → Settings
2. At the bottom left of the window, make sure "Advanced" is checked.
3. In the left side menu go to User Interface
4. Under the section 'Channel Tree'
5. Set Expand to "All"
6. Check "Users above Channels"

This is to announce our next General Community Meeting which is currently scheduled to happen on Monday, February 13th, 2012 @ 9PM Eastern - 8PM Central - 7PM Mountain - 6PM Pacific Time; depending on your time zone.