Posts Tagged ‘Powers’

Coochie Coochie Coo! A look at Xat’s TICKLE power

Wednesday, May 19th, 2010

Sometime last night, Xat passed along another one of their cryptic messages. This one had to do with Tickle; Xat power (81). It read as follows:

“…When someone clicks on you, you will be notified in a new user list…”

Puzzled, we headed straight for the Xatworld xat_test chat and with HEAN’S help  (thank you Hean!), and a few users in Xat’s own xat_test chat, we were able to gather the following information.

What Tickle does:

The new Tickle power activates a new user list (denoted by a white triangle) to the right of the traditional VISITORS and FRIENDS tabs. When another user, regardless of where they are on Xat, clicks on your nick, that triangle changes to green; alerting you to the fact that “someone” has clicked your nick. Want to know who would dare do such a thing? Easy, just click the green triangle and you will gain access to a new user list showing exactly who and/or how many people have clicked on your nick. That’s it!

Screenshots:

xat tickle power

xat tickle power

xat tickle power

No news on pricing, availability, or when it might be released.

Update 1: Thanks ACK, Ziggy… typo corrected!
Update 2
: Tickle eventually to be free for those that have activated ACCOUNT LOCKING

Xat Powers Nick Generators

Friday, May 7th, 2010

We’ve added two more Xat powers nick generators to our website. Our intent is to place everything on one page and have that page dedicated to powers nick creation.

We already have the Nameglow generator, and now we’ve added two more; a Beam and Anime nick generator.

Give each of them a look. They’re meant to take the hassle and guesswork out of creating colored nicks using the most common Xat powers.

Buy Powers Page Newish’ness – What?

Thursday, May 6th, 2010

Anyone who frequents the Xat buy powers page (don’t we all) will surely have noticed a tiny addition, two actually.

Xat has added a vertical row of Xat rockets. These rockets mark only those powers that are required to qualify for, that o so glorious, “ALLPOWERS”. In fact, stated right there on the Buy Powers page, in black and white, next to the allpowers “power” Xat says:

“To qualify for allpowers you need to have one of each available standard power (marked with a rocket). Powers that are limited in quantity and epic powers are not required”.

Users will also note that Xat has color highlighted the banish power in a pukish, I-don’t-feel-so-well, shade of green; we’re guessing so differentiate the first of many more group powers.

Anyway, hope that help someone out there. Here is an image for ya!

New Xat Power – NOPM

Saturday, April 3rd, 2010

Xat is working on another new power called NOPM. Mundoxat user Fakudarfe has spotted and was nice enough to submit the following screenshot.

NOPM, we’re guessing, keeps users from from private messaging you.

Stay tuned!

Next Xat Power – Easter

Saturday, March 27th, 2010

Xat announced it’s latest power just over an hour ago; it’s Easter! Testing has started, the power will be limited, and it should be out on or before Sunday, April 4th.

Below are the Easter themed smilies:

basket, bunny, bunny2, chick, egg2, paintegg

xat easter

xat easter

xat easter

xat easter

xat easter

xat easter

Blueman – We were Slow to GET IT :)

Friday, February 26th, 2010

If a picture really is worth a thousand words, we think that this one more appropriately demonstrates the significance of Blueman than anything else.

xat blueman

For those that still don’t get it (err… it took us awhile too), you only need to look as far as Xat’s own tweet:

Next power is blueman, think pink only blue.

Blueman really doesn’t have anything to do with user rank. In fact, if you get a chance grab a teste, knock him over the head and drag him off if you have to, and have him/her show you what Blueman looks like next to a member pawn. The difference is subtle but it is there; Blueman being just a touch darker than member. It literally is just like Pink only Blue. Maybe this is Xat’s answer to what has seemingly always been thought of as a “girly” color (Pink). Doesn’t it make sense then, that if Pink equals Girl, that Blueman should equal Boy? Could this be the making of Xat’s first (or second) gender oriented power?

Just a thought :)

Update: ACKirbachu was nice enough to submit this comparision showing the difference between Blueman blue, and member blue…

Xat Blueman Power – Emerging Details

Friday, February 26th, 2010

Xat’s power Wiki has been updated with the following Blueman information:

Turn your pawn dark blue. When this power is enabled you will show as dark blue on the user list if you are a guest or member. NOTE: YOU MUST BE A GUEST, MEMBER OR OWNER IN $TEALTH MODE TO USE THIS POWER!

Source: http://util.xat.com/wiki/index.php/Powers

Next Xat Power to be Blueman

Friday, February 26th, 2010

xat blueman

Naes, over at xatBlogs was the first to post about the new Blueman power that Xat, only minutes ago, announced on their Twitter feed. We know very little at this point; just that it appears to be like the Pink power, only Blue.

Update: Brian is currently testing Blueman and has posted a screenshot of blueman to his own blog.
Update2
: Here is Blueman in all its glory (taken directly from our Big Smiley Generator (type blueman)

xat blueman

Xat’s Tempmem No Longer Limited

Wednesday, February 3rd, 2010

xat tempmem

After an unprecedented 19 releases, available in blocks of 100 to 200 units, Tempmem has finally settled down and is now available on Xat’s powers page for a mere 15 days. Contrary to speculation, this power is now officially not limited.

DX Released to Testers + Rumors!

Wednesday, January 6th, 2010

xat dx

Just before the new year we posted what we thought DX might be. This morning a xatBlogs user pointed out that 42 had given the new DX power to two testers. After some observation and scrutiny on our part, we’re leaning even more now in the direction of a xat to days converter.

Here are a few more things we picked up on this morning:

1. Once the DX power is used, you lose it. This could be thought of as an ATM processing fee.

2. If you have two DX’s and you “use the process” once, you will lose DX. If you do it again, you’ll lose the other. Again, if you look at DX as a processing fee, it “fits”.

3. Asked “Are you going to sell DX” a tester replied no, because “I am spending the power”. Spending it on what? On converting xats to days maybe?

So… Any guesses?

Update: give Xatland’s DX blog post a read for more details. Xatland, headed by Brian (a Xat.com tester and longtime volunteer) has more details that probably anyone right now.