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Illysia

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Trepor Greet Lockout
« on: April 26, 2017, 11:04:20 am »
While it's cute that the trepors greet me, they are getting pretty spammy while I'm harvesting. It would be better if the trepors could keep a list of who they have already greeted and have a lockout on greeting them again for like 15 mins or so. What I am thinking is that names are only temporarily stored during the lockout time then dumped once the lockout expires. This should keep the trepors from starting dossiers on the players they meet.  :)

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Re: Trepor Greet Lockout
« Reply #1 on: April 26, 2017, 11:32:13 am »
While Trepors do greet players, I am not sure their intelligence is high enough to distinguish among different players. After all, just as all Trepors look the same to us (substitute Kormis or your favorite species from among Yliakum's fauna for Trepor if you like,) so we must all look the same to a Trepor, albeit distinguishable in terms of species. Boosting the Trepor's IQ seems a commendable goal however, so I am eagerly waiting to see if anyone picks up the gauntlet.

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Re: Trepor Greet Lockout
« Reply #2 on: April 26, 2017, 12:21:11 pm »
Or as a temporary fix just turn of system messages while harvesting then turn it back on when you are done?

(I have no idea how easy something like that would be to code so my suggestion would be for in the meantime of if the devs say this is not possible to do)
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Re: Trepor Greet Lockout
« Reply #3 on: April 26, 2017, 12:22:34 pm »
Probably just need to check my chat log settings since that's what I think about more. I can make sure those aren't breaking up my chat logs.

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Re: Trepor Greet Lockout
« Reply #4 on: September 26, 2018, 01:12:42 am »
I thought there was need to return to this, so I shall.

I like Migg's considerations about Trepor intelligence.  I think maybe the frequency of greetings could be reduced, though:  are they really all that cheery?  Well, maybe more than the Tlokes, sure, who greet far less often, but they do greet too much.  It's like the opening scene of the Lego Movie.

Perhaps there ought be a way to filter messages by regex?  I'll look into whether a UE4 add–on can be built to do so.  The big difficulty would be designing it in a way that is accomodating to users who don't know regular expressions, Perl–compatible or otherwise.
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Re: Trepor Greet Lockout
« Reply #5 on: September 26, 2018, 03:09:47 pm »
Perhaps there ought be a way to filter messages by regex?  I'll look into whether a UE4 add–on can be built to do so.  The big difficulty would be designing it in a way that is accomodating to users who don't know regular expressions, Perl–compatible or otherwise.
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