PlaneShift

Gameplay => Wish list => Topic started by: LigH on September 27, 2005, 03:03:09 pm

Title: Enhancing the "/who" feature
Post by: LigH on September 27, 2005, 03:03:09 pm

In my opinion, the \"/who\" function is not quite too flexible. I found 2 limitations:

- Only first names are listed, I cannot search for family names. For example, if I would like to search for a married couple if at least one of them is online, I need to know and check both first names.

- I cannot search for a 2-part name. For example, try to search for all members of the guild \"Game Master\": If you enter \"/who game\", the member \"Agamemnon\" is found as well. And if you search \"/who master\", you also get lots of \"Guild Master\" titles. Searchin for \"game*master\" or \"game?master\" does not work.

It would be nice if the functionality could be enhanced. But I will survive with the current limitations, I don\'t urge...

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Post by: Rage McCloud on September 28, 2005, 03:22:31 am

1) what if someone is hunting someone?

2) yes as in other games like furcadia where you use | as space...

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Post by: LigH on September 28, 2005, 03:42:54 am

On german keyboards, the \"pipe\" character \'|\' is on an own key: AltGr + \"<\".

I\'ll try that; but as far as I know SQL or Regular Expressions, I was rather used to \'?\' or \'_\' for \"one arbitrary character\". And I am not at all used to \"other MMORPG\", PlaneShift is my first one.

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Post by: Karyuu on September 28, 2005, 04:07:12 am

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Originally posted by Rage McCloud
1) what if someone is hunting someone?

I don\'t see how knowing a last name would aid you in hunting, when you are already able to check for the first.

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Post by: Makratok on September 28, 2005, 04:44:19 am

I did expect this command to use \' and \' on the end of the name input part of syntax, as does with guild renaming and setskill for GM work.

it seems not to work, and thus, It will be forwarded to a keen coding contributor to play with :)

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Post by: Rage McCloud on September 28, 2005, 10:45:46 pm

well i know that it is still a little bland to say that it might aid in hunting but you would know if they were online and thus ebing able to ask around if someone has seen that person and/or where the player is thus being able to track that person down with ease although that would be a show of tracking skills thus making it ok... so yes forget that statement...

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Post by: Karyuu on September 28, 2005, 10:48:44 pm

Right. Plus that is already possible, so it wouldn\'t really change anything... :)

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Post by: LigH on September 28, 2005, 11:51:24 pm

8o Janners don\'t \"hunt\" people... :rolleyes:

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Post by: Karyuu on September 28, 2005, 11:54:37 pm

But Karyuu\'s do :D

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Post by: LigH on September 29, 2005, 05:08:48 pm

How can you hunt me, when you are not online...  :]

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Post by: Karyuu on September 29, 2005, 07:34:00 pm

Appearances can be so deceiving, can they not? ;)