Phone System

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Feature Showcase: Phone System

The phone system has been wiped and made from scratch in order to fix many bugs/inefficiencies, add QOL features, and overall bring the phone up to date with 2024. The goal of this revamp is to drastically improve the phone and also set a clean foundation for more features and applications to be made in the future.

I. Migration

We have manually migrated your phone data to the new system. 

 

Your phone number, contacts and message history will remain. Phone settings, blocked numbers, and call history will not. We wanted to ensure that we migrate the data that is most important to you. Unfortunately, things like settings and blocked numbers were not able to be migrated over due to the way the old system is set up, but we do not believe the impact of losing this data will be significant. All smart phones are now iFruit 15, if you had a special color, it has carried over. We will add more smartphone variations in the future.

 

We aimed to keep all functionality from the old phone system as well, if you notice something that is missing, please report it as a bug.

 

II. Features

 

The current release of the phone system includes many features, but below is an overview of the most significant ones:

1. Ability to take pictures in game and send them to contacts, via /selfie or /camera. The pictures will be automatically saved in your phone gallery.
2. You can manually add pictures to your phone gallery as well and then interact with them. The photos are tied to the phone, not the player.
3. Ability to set wallpapers and avatars (your avatar will be viewed by anyone who messages you or adds you as a contact).
4. Functional group chats with up to 15 members, with ability to manage the group chat for the group owner.
5. Functional group calls with up to 6 participants.
6. Ability to place calls on hold.
7. Ability to mute your phone/mic during calls.
8. Emojis in texts.
9. Message read receipts.
10. CashTap application, a way of anonymously sending money to other players so they don't see your name/routing number, with a weekly limit of $30,000. Transactions may still be traced back to players by admins or if LEOs obtain a warrant. (You cannot access another player's CashTap application even if you steal their phone.)
11. A notes application that saves notes on your phone so you can keep track of things. The notes are tied to the phone, not the player.
12. A calculator application.
13. Face unlock.
14. Ability to favorite contacts and have them in a separate tab.
15. Ability to view SMS messages in chat and have it persist across sessions (/smsinchat).

 

III. Future Revisions

The current phone release brings many features as seen above. However, this is only phase 1 and our main aim was to bring in the most needed features as well as the base of the system, so that we can identify any potential issues and hotfix any bugs that may arise. Once we are happy and believe that the phone is in a stable state, below are some of the features we have on our radar for the next iteration:

1. Improve the user interface/user experience even more and add in more customization options.
2. Add in different phone options with different interfaces, simulating Android.
3. Improve CashTap and expand on it, adding features like being able to request money.
4. Phone games. 
5. Advertisements app.
6. Taxi app.
7. Re-integrate the new system with the UCP.
    

We have a lot more ideas as well, but as mentioned, the focus currently is to stabilize the current iteration as best as possible and then begin expanding onto it.

 

 

IV. Screenshots

 

 

 

 

 

Edited Thursday at 12:44 PM by Nervous