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’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)
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!
Xat is releasing a new limited holiday power called Independence. With it, and its included 14 smiles (see below), users will be able to celebrate the up and coming 4th of July holiday.
The going rate in the store, when it becomes available, appears to be 400 xats.
Included smileys:
This morning Xat revealed a new power called Flag.
Flag simply allows you to add flag icon to your avatar (waving or still) or single/multiple flags to your nick. This new power supports over 180 country variations and been released just days ahead of the 2010 World Cup (that’s soccer!).
To make the Xat flag use (flag) or (flag#). To make a country flag use (flag#wus) for the animated usa flag. If you’d like to make a still or fixed version add a “1″ between the “w” and country abbreviation as in (flag#w1us).
Although we’re not sure where Xat got their inspiration for this new power, we have been promoting Google’s Word Cup power on both our Xatworld and Mundoxat homepages for some time. Congrat’s to Google for the great idea!
We imagine that after the World Cup people will still find it useful as a nationality power; something that I think many people have been waiting for.
It seems that our original guess on what Xat’s new Gline power may be a definite possibility. The image below was posted to the Mundoxat.com forum and presumably it came from the Help chat.
Although it looks like an obvious fake, it did get our wheels turning and once again we turned to Google.com to see what we could find. I’ll paraphrase from a Wiki article on G-line:
“…A G-line or global kill is a global network ban applied to a user.
Whenever a G-lined person attempts to connect to the network, either the services or the daemon will automatically disconnect the client, often displaying a message explaining the “reasoning” behind the ban.
G-lines are normally applied to a user who continues to abuse the network by connecting to a different server. G-lines are often regarded as an extreme measure, only to be used in cases of repeated abuse when extensive attempts have been made to reason with the offending user. Therefore, especially on larger networks, often only very high ranking global operators are permitted to set them.
G-lines are typically set as *@IP or *@host, with the first being the better option. G-lines do still wait for an ident response from the connecting user but immediately close the socket once the user’s IP is compared to the G-line list and a match is found…”
It might be a bit too techy but in short, Gline is looking like it may be a banning feature of some sorts. Maybe a more extreme extension of Stricter banning or, if one reads between the lines and looks at it in more general terms, maybe a way to have more precise banning control over your own chat. We still don’t know for sure
What is Xat’s new Gline power? Well.. although we aren’t sure we know that most of you, like us, can appreciate good old fashion speculation.
We’ve decided to turn our attention to our good old friend URBAN DICTIONARY and have come up with the following:
A quick read over options 1, 2 and 3 leaves us feeling pretty confident with only one option (hint: clearly it isn’t option three). We feel that Gline MAY have something to do with banning a troublesome user across more than one chat. Have you ever had to deal with someone so bad, obnoxious or otherwise that you’ve had to ban them from each of your chats, one-by-one? We have and it’s not fun! Could Gline possibly make it easier to do just that? :S Again, we aren’t sure.
We’ll just wait and see what Xat has in store for us
Off topic: Has everyone had a chance to either view or vote for Google’s World Cup Flag power?
