Xat has just announced that the next power will be SINGLE. With it a user can prevent another user from marrying or bff’ing him. How this will work remains to be seen. 
Includes broken heart on pawn [put (hat#z) in your name] and (asif) (heartbounce) (one) (heartburst) bonus smilies.
Power smiley can be seen here:
http://www.xatworld.com/smileygenerator/?fname=single
Stay tuned!
Last night, while we were needlessly sleeping, Xat released some new blastpro animations. There are now three such animations; the robotic-pawn-painter, a new dip-pawn-into-a-paint-bucket, and a superman’esque-pawn-enters-phonebooth.
Activating is a bit tricky so try these steps:
1. Purchase four Blastpro. You’ll need to activate at least four to access the new animations.
2. Assign four Blastpro to your one chat
3. By default, the robotic-pawn-painter animation will always be displayed. To see the other two, type the following codes into the chat:
$blastpro=2 to activate the dip-pawn-into-a-paint-bucket animation
$blastpro=3 to activate the superman’esque-pawn-enters-phonebooth animation
$blastpro=1 to get back to robotic-pawn-painter
Note: All animations can be disabled by simply typing $blastpro=off into your chat.
Animation examples:
Blastpro, Xat’s most recent group power, has been released and many people are wondering just what it does. Blastpro, once assigned to a chat, will display a cute animation of a user pawn getting “painted”, for example, from member-blue to moderator-white. This will happen anytime any user is promoted from a lesser to a more important rank.
That’s all we’ve seen so far. Below are a few screenshots of what it looks like along with the power smile:
http://i33.tinypic.com/29asarb.png
http://i35.tinypic.com/34pgpvo.png
http://www.xatworld.com/smileygenerator/?fname=blastpro
Share this post on Xat: http://tinyurl.com/blastpro
We’re trying out two new things on Mundoxat.com; if they work out, we’ll move them on over here as well… they are… *drumroll please*…
1. A flag generator (yeah, raise your hand if you know what Botswana’s national flag looks like. Mmmhmm, didn’t think so. This should help with that)
2. A background tester. Hmmm… well, you upload a background URL, click a “cargar” button (means load btw) and then use a color picker to pick out just the right button colors. Useful? Well, we’re not sure… someone asked for it and it’s certainly easier than entering the chat admin, pasting the code, saving the page and previewing the changes each time
Thanks people!
We’ve received a “tip”, from very high up, that power 82 will fall within the following parameters:
1. It will be named gmarine, simply marine, or some variation thereof
2. It will be both a power, and a “group” power (unless we got this one completely wrong)
3. Ummm.. there is no 3, that’s really all we know which leads us to…
Power 82 – Speculation…
Our initial guess, given the name and the ease at which one could come up with smiley ideas, has us leaning towards a “Marine” (as in aquatic) themed smiley set. This set could include things like a starfish, a jellyfish, an anchor, etc… How this could be both power and group power has us scratching our heads.
That’s all we’ve got so far. If anyone finds any additional information or has any insight, that leans our way or in an entirely different direction, feel free to comment below.
Thanks everyone!
Those wondering what the new Summer power holds in store for us can thank the team over at Xatcambio.com; the official Spanish trade chat website. He kindly posted the following list of what WILL BE the included Summer smileys:
(summer)
(beachbbq)
(cooler)
(efan)
(fishing)
(frisbee)
(goggles)
(kayak)
(laytowl)
(pina)
(sanddig)
(sandplay)
(bands)
(towl)
(waterbottle)
(waterskii)
It’s taken some time to publish, sort through, and get final approval from Xat for the winning 9, but we now have them!
For those that weren’t aware of it, this particular contest was published and promoted only in two places; on Xat.com’s Twitter and our own Xatworld Twitter. We like to publish contests in different areas of our site to encourage and reward participation.
Things you can do to stay on top of our next contest:
1. Follow our Xatworld Twitter feed RIGHT NOW
2. Add us on Facebook – We often send out updates to our page followers
3. Occasionally check the Xatworld blog
4. Check our Xatworld home page for surprise contest graphics
Anyone who took a few minutes to visit or participate in Xat’s first celebrity chat (congratulations and a big welcome to Ashley Leggat continued success here on Xat!) surely noticed Xat’s new Cyan colored pawn.
This Pawn, as we’ve been told, has been set aside and designated as the official celebrity-only colored pawn (see screenie below).
We look forward to more celebrity spottings here on Xat.com
Sometime between last night and this morning Xat did something that they’ve never done (not to our knowledge anyway), they “restored” all or some Xat accounts to a earlier state and Xat trade/transfer had to be closed down temporarily during the process. Now, to put rumor to rest and give each of you “some” closure or clarity (depending on where you stand), we’ve contacted Xat ourselves and here is what we know.
The reason/problem is highlighted in Yellow, the solution for some of you, is highlighted in Green.
If you were one of the unfortunates, meaning your account was “in receipt of stolen xats” (be it intentional or not) every one of your transactions has been canceled and restored to its pre-July 5th state. If you purchased xats after the specified date you should contact Xat by opening a ticket at xat.com/support (direct your question to Payment Problems) so that they can help you.
This morning Xat announced (to testers only) that it is currently trying out a new power called “gcontrol” (short for group control).
If all goes well in the testing phase, this power should eventually allow users to more precisely customize various aspects of their chat box. For example, a user could disallow all moderators the ability to kick. Another could allow only main owners to change the scroller. The possibilities are endless.
Stay tuned for more!
