Remote Control & Community Names

[cbk1994]

Community names in themselves are not awful, but the way they are implemented is. There is not even a script function to retrieve an account name from a community name or vica-versa. That's all fine since you can script your own with your own database, but we really need RC to be fixed to work with community names. Some commands such as "openaccess" and "openprofile" work with community names, but most of the actually used ones don't.

Commands that need to work with community names (accept either an account or a community name as the parameter):

• /open <account>
• /openrights <account>
• /opencomments <account>
• /reset <account>

In addition, a command should be added:

• /lookup <account or community name>

which is a replica of "/global communityname <account or communityname>" but with many less characters.

These scripting functions should also be implemented.

[fowlplay4]

Stefan needs to release his updated external RC build that displays community names in the player list as well.

[cbk1994]

bump

[Cloven]

Definitely.

[fowlplay4]

Problem with the disconnect command and Graal###### accounts.

First I tried..
/disconnect Graal765336 zZzzzZz

Output:
No player with account or community name 'Graal765336' found online.

Then I tried..

/disconnect JinChill zZzzZz

Output:
fowlplay4 disconnects JinChill (Graal765336) because of: zZzzzZz
RC disconnected: JinChill (Graal765336)

[cbk1994]

Originally Posted by Stefan

Please report bugs with community name on RC or similar (may be someone could assemble all problems with it so that I can fix it one batch).

Hi Stefan.

[Tigairius]

bump for great justice of all community names. Also, something like player.displayname or so would be nice because currently we have to do player.communityname!=NULL?player.communityname:pl ayer.account;

[Skyld]

Originally Posted by Tigairius

Also, something like player.displayname or so would be nice because currently we have to do player.communityname!=NULL?player.communitynamel ayer.account;

No, it would be far better for player.communityname to be fixed so that it never returns NULL, but instead the account name or "guest" if a community name is not set.

[fowlplay4]

It'd also be nice if it displayed as guest123456 instead of just guest.

[Zeke]

Originally Posted by fowlplay4

It'd also be nice if it displayed as guest123456 instead of just guest.

mhm.