Been to a faction or organisation meeting? Witnessed a serious conflict? Want to tell your friends about it, but don't want to give them a bunch of screenshots or horrible log files? Then this is the tool for you!

http://www.glitchsociety.com/format-logs/

1. Take your evil looking MxO log file (located at [game directory]/Profiles/[your account]/chat.log ) ;
2. Grab the lines you need;
3. Paste them into the form linked to above;
4. Set the options if you need to (instructions are at the bottom of the page);
5. Hit Format;
6. Copy the code that appears and paste it wherever you want!

There are all sorts of options available:

• Choose from botched HTML (for these very forums), good X/HTML (for Web pages) or typical BBcode (for simpler forums like phpBB);
• Choose to filter out any channel you want (like secret faction chat or /tells);
• Colour the names of important people (or colour their entire messages);
• Format [System] messages to look like *action sequences*;
• Make MxO-chat formatting ({i}, {b} and {c:######} tags) visible wherever you post the logs.

Make the Data Node 1 forums presentable: format your logs!

(Just make sure you actually log the meetings/events you're attending: use the /logstart command in-game or hit Alt+L.)

Obviously I'm open to suggestions to improve the tool, but I'm rather busy finishing off the rest of the faction Web site.

Very nice work, impressive.

(now I just wonder if you log everything that is formatted in there :smileytongue: )

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[TGS] Procurator wrote:
I log everything. (Unless someone manages to sneak a quick message in before I can type '/logstart'.)

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Update

• As of Update 45, outbound /tells are labelled as [TellSent]. The log formatter now takes advantage of this and correctly prefixes those /tells with 'To'. Older /tells are still subject to some ambiguity as to their origins - this cannot be remedied.


• You can now enter the name of the person taking the log (probably you). This will allow the newer outbound /tells to be coloured using the sender's colour settings, rather than the recipient's.


• Fixed a bug where LET names with whitespace at the end did not get colour applied them properly.


• Fixed a bug whereby empty [System] messages would be left in.