Playerlist/PMs and Rc improvement

Soul-Blade · #1 05-26-2003, 11:53 PM

Add a feature to disable PMs and/or the player list, allowing us to script a new one. Community is great, but there are things like markets and group meetings and such, and PMs make communication to simple. If people want to speak, they should have to find each other...*cough* well I mean that is how I want it in my PW. So, I think this feature would be useful to new-age PWs...

Also, for RC, a easier way for discussion. Basicly (and Stefan will know what I mean) it should work like the discussion client, for NewWorld. Allowing the making of threads, and comments can be made on them. The threads can have variable sub topics, like Title, Description, Use, and other attributes. From there, other members of a PW staff can post comments with improvements, add ons, changes, and whatever else they need to say. Currently, I use a system like this only using the FTP and text documents, and it is very difficult to get the hang of. Even when you do have the hang of it, it is easily possible to orverwrite other peoples writings and such. Most people don't care about planning, or story discussion, but I do, and if this feature was implemented, other PWs would as well. I think this small feature could greatly improve PWs, and make communicated among other members easier.

(Actually, all around, I think RC should be made more like Discussion Client, allowing the owner to leave newsletters for staff, PMs that are stored on the server (so they can read when you are not offline), and other features like that. This will allow for more planning, communication, and all around improve the ease of developement and planning)

konidias · #2 05-27-2003, 12:31 AM

Yeah disabling the playerlist and toalls would be helpful. Some people could find it irritating to not be able to talk to everyone at once, or not be able to talk with their friends privately...

I'd kinda like it to be possible to modify the playerlist, like take out options. Such as taking out mass messaging only. So you can use it to private message people, but only one at a time. This will stop people from advertising their items and stuff via PMs.

osrs · #3 05-27-2003, 12:36 AM

Many scripters already asked this,but i will repeat using your thread Soul-Blade.
Stefan please add the button Test on NC!
Too bad open a new editor just for test our scripts..

Ningnong · #4 05-27-2003, 12:40 AM

wow! you put disable and pm in the same sentance! aah, thats it disable pms... wonderful!!! *dances*

Yea, that would be good. Like many online games dont have a playerlist (wonder why.....) and its intresting to find new people. I think if you did this though, the playerlist should still be there so you can see who is on. (but not be able to pm)

I don't know if I think its a good or bad idea, I suppose it depends on the PWs environment.

And as for the rc-post idea, I think thats a great idea. It would help managers organise their staff, post news, improvements etc.

So humm, yea

Ningnong · #5 05-27-2003, 01:15 AM

Quote:

Many scripters already asked this,but i will repeat using your thread Sould-Blade.
Stefan please add the button Test on NC!
Too bad open a new editor just for test our scripts..

You shouldn't really need to test. Its fairly obvious if there is something wrong, then take another glance and your script and its "a ha".

osrs · #6 05-27-2003, 02:24 AM

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Originally posted by Ningnong

You shouldn't really need to test. Its fairly obvious if there is something wrong, then take another glance and your script and its "a ha".

well,would be better for us..

Tyhm · #7 05-27-2003, 02:26 AM

Yeah. Too many times have I spent hours on end trying to figure out what's wrong only to find out I typed sestring again. The eyes pass right over it...

osrs · #8 05-27-2003, 02:31 AM

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Originally posted by Tyhm
Yeah. Too many times have I spent hours on end trying to figure out what's wrong only to find out I typed sestring again. The eyes pass right over it...

Exactly.
Then when this happens,you open a new editor,put the script there so you see whats wrong...

adam · #9 05-27-2003, 04:13 AM

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Originally posted by Tyhm
Yeah. Too many times have I spent hours on end trying to figure out what's wrong only to find out I typed sestring again. The eyes pass right over it...

Yes, it's often hard to see misspelled words, you just read them like they should be instead of how they are sometimes.

G_yoshi · #10 05-27-2003, 05:24 AM

I must agree (whole-heartedly :]) with Soul-Blade and Konidias. Disabling mass messages and toalls is a wonderful idea as well as adding in better forms of staff communication.

zell12 · #11 05-27-2003, 01:35 PM

A massmessage buttion for the player list.

Soul-Blade · #12 05-27-2003, 05:44 PM

x-x lets try to stay on topic here. (Although, a test button is nice, sometimes I forget a bracket or something heh).

zell12 · #13 05-27-2003, 09:44 PM

This is on-topic. We are discussing the advantages of having the playerlist disabled.