Facebook Style Social Network for CoH?

The idea came to me while - sadly - watching a review of another MMORPG that hews too closely to our beloved MMORPG, but one interesting thing I saw in this review was the ability to update Facebook/Twitter via ingame slash commands, and the idea came to me - why not have a Facebook/Myspace esque "social" network for our ingame toons (that are tied to our global handle), that we can update while in game?

When pressing "Print Screen" it would also upload the photos to your toon's page. When you /friend someone ingame it will also friend them respectively (and their alts).

A lot more... but it came to me. Sorry if it's been thought/discussed before.

/end ramble.

facebook has no secure log in. that means anyone can get your info. imagine if the game was tied into this...

What I'm saying is, is that you wouldn't be updating from the webpage necessarily; you'd be updating it from ingame.

I don't know the technicals, but ideas like "City Vault" integrating this game with off-server assets apparently caused the game performance to sink to the depths of unplayability. One of the devs had said as much during an online Q&A, I think.

Anyway, I think information passing OUTSIDE this game by and large is an engine limitation they cannot overcome.

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Originally Posted by Deus_Otiosus This entire post should receive some kind of award for being both hysterical and fantastic. Well done.