Talad (Leader / Founder)
Eonwind (Rules)
Tuathanach (Rules)
Zunna (Rules / Settings)
Mordaan (Settings)
Venalan (Settings Lead)
Uadjet (GM Lead)
Emaline (GM Team)
Zweitholou (Art)
Gonger (PR)
Uadjet: Hello and welcome to the Dev Q&A!
Uadjet: Sorry I'm so late.
Anysu: I'm just crouching here picking locks
Anysu: And pondering if that apple on my table is a tribute.
Zarre: Could be ammo too
Uadjet: It might be.
Uadjet: It's almost dead center, and I don't think any of the Vigesimi were standing there yesterday. Amidison was supposed to, but she kept teleporting away.
Gonger: By far the most popular table in our world.
Uadjet: So, some of you might have noticed not updating the game today.
Uadjet: I know none of you updated, but honestly I just click play unless the game stops me.
Uadjet: So there's a small issue that needs to be fixed, but it should not take long.
Uadjet: So I can stand here and talk about all of the things that might have been here, but aren't.
Uadjet: Not yet, anyways.
Anysu: Talad mentioned the drawing element
Uadjet nods.
Gonger: Talad also had the very good idea not to try and drop the update just before yesterday's event.
Anysu: Glad Talad did not plan to do it before event.
Uadjet: So there's that coming. Drawing.
Uadjet: The other thing that Talad's been doing is working on the Diaboli village.
Uadjet: A few existing NPCs might move there, just to get things started. I'll try and add a few others quickly enough.
Uadjet: Maybe some Dermorians and Nolthrir, for the day that Ynnwn return.
Uadjet: So, expect an event or two there pretty much as soon as it appears. I'm not afraid to rewrite and event with less than an hour to go before it starts.
Uadjet: Thosor?
Thosor: Is there something in flyspray regarding getting the 'click' sound back when chat changes?
Thosor: I thought I put something in long ago.
Gonger: Your events are much appreciated. Yesterday was a very interesting one.
>Anysu nods at Gonger.
Resildren agrees.
Uadjet: Are you talking about the audible notification on tells, or something more generic?
Thosor: yes, or just the main chat
Thosor: Good when window is open over ps
Uadjet: We had that option in Legacy, of course. Hmmm. I see a report of the inability to set the target for a tell by clicking on a name in the buddy list. That was filed by you, I see.
Thosor: That is different, but handy also.
Uadjet: I don't see any reports about that under your name. I also tried keywords, but 'chat' and 'click' doesn't show anything.
Uadjet: I will admit, I often don't see that one of the other tabs has lit up right away.
Thosor: Ok, I didn't know quite how to word it
Thosor: I'll try again, thank you.
Resildren: be nice if one could right click on a players name and have an option right there to /tell?
Resildren: be it in the buddy list or even on targeting the player in game?
Uadjet: Had to launch Chrome to get my username/password right. Why the heck do I have eight accounts on HydlaaPlaza.com?!?!
Anysu: It is all those NPC you do Uadjet...
Zarre: My original account poofed and I had to make another one a few years ago.
Anysu: I'd like when you start to type a name in a chat window, it would auto-fill whole name.
Uadjet: But two of them show random alphanumeric usernames. I NEVER do that!
Thosor: seconded!
Uadjet: Heck, even Talad has commented on the long names I give some NPCs.
Uadjet: Larramaarhe and Irinerreth, specifically.
Thosor: And the change of color when your name is mentioned.
Anysu: oh yeah that also, Thosor
Uadjet: Yes, those were good features. I don't think they'd be too hard to add.
Zarre: Especiallly now since we can't stop the main chat from popping to the latest comment when you are trying to catch up.
Thosor: All faded in rememberance when the pushups started.
Uadjet: Yeah, the pushups were... less than ideal.
Uadjet: Now that they're fixed, we can go back to griping about the small stuff!
Anysu: Yeah thatpopping to latest message is bothersome. I read slow.
Thosor: Especially when group and main are combined, like I have it.
Uadjet: It makes it hard to scroll back. I get that when my eyes are off chat briefly to mess around with gm commands.
Zarre: I believe it
Thosor: I have to switch to local log if afk at all to catch up.
Resildren: yep that's when we throw you a wrench, keeps you on your toes
Anysu: And if you want to scroll back to reread or check something from before, after a time, all earlier chat messages vanish.
>Anysu nods at Uadjet.
Gonger: What do you mean, Anysu? Messages vanish?
Uadjet: There's a limit to have many lines are saved. I think you can alter it in settings.
Anysu: What Uadjet said
Anysu: Did not know you could alter it?
Zarre: Even having a scroll bar on the right side of the window to make the scroll-up fast would help a little.
Gonger: Ah... I think I set this one quite high...
Uadjet: It's under Interface.
Resildren: the max history slider?
Gonger: Strange, it was set to "n"...
Gonger: But now I must select a value between 10 and 500.
Anysu: mine was 'n' also
Zarre: Just assumed the 'n" stood for number
Thosor: n here
Thosor: if not, i dont get timestamp
Anysu: I adjusted slider in max history. I will see how that adjusts things.
Uadjet: So we've got some issues with chat. I think most are minor, so maybe not that hard to add.
Gonger: Speaking of Interface, what is "Enable Hardware Cursor"?
Resildren: and i hope someday we get the shortcut tabs added
Anysu: yes what is enable hardware cursor...
Gova: I need another.... 5 banks of shortcuts, minimum.
Zarre: Yes, at least 5. More would be even better.
Gonger: According to google, hardware cursor can be used to accelerate mouse usage, if I understood that right. I am not very good in anything hardware-related...
Uadjet: The move towards minigames and clicking on the environment would lower the need a bit. The crafting redesign reduces the need for shortcuts too.
Gonger: Give me a command line, and I am a happy Dwarf!
Zarre: We no longer can have language shortcuts or make notes. At one time I could say a few things in any language thanks to my snortcuts.
Resildren nods
Uadjet: Yeah, I don't think there's a minigame planned for that...
Resildren: I just thru the concept on the idea tab in discord
Uadjet: We can still petition for more shortcuts.
Uadjet: In Legacy there was the ability to import shortcuts from a file. If we had that, we could do banks of shortcuts that way.
Zarre: Perhaps, I've asked a few times since the change to Unreal.
Resildren: that would be great but yeah we'd need to tab them less we loose more screen real estate
Zarre: Hmm, we still can't type any notes in a shortcut either. That was helpful.
Uadjet: hello
Uadjet: Okay, I did that with a shortcut.
Zarre: Nice
Resildren: added a note?
Zarre: Any idea how many more characters could be added?
Uadjet: It's kinda a note. You can type whatever you like in there. There may be a character/line limit.
Zarre: Notes may not always be wanted in chat either.
Uadjet: You don't need to use /say.
Zarre: I could open up my Enki shortcut and see many greetings or on EnkiRace see all the races at a glance.
Uadjet: Hello
Uadjet: A man walks down the street, he says, "Why am I soft in the middle now?
Uadjet: Why am I soft in the middle? The rest of my life is so hard
Uadjet: I need a photo-opportunity, I want a shot at redemption
Uadjet: Don't wanna end up a cartoon in a cartoon graveyard"
Uadjet: Ahh, it defaults to /say if you start a line without a command.
Resildren: is there a null key one could use?
Uadjet: Hello
Resildren: say a period?
Uadjet: Hello
Uadjet: Hello
Uadjet: . A man walks down the street, he says, "Why am I soft in the middle now?
Resildren: all my shortcut tabs are full atm
Uadjet: Yeah, a period just has you start the sentence with a period.
Uadjet: I keep one blank for test purposes.
Uadjet: I found that /tell uadjet worked and only I could see the note.
Zarre: That's a surprise
Uadjet: Maybe a few Reminder: {Insert topic here} could do for a time.
Uadjet: But this is now quite late. What ideas do you all want put into the Discord tab?
Mohonin: i remember this utility to click someone and start chatting in /tell mode
Uadjet: We had notifications on tell/chat, highlighting lines with your own name, maybe a toggle for auto-scroll...
Anysu: yeah those
Zarre: or an old-fashioned scrollbar ^ ^
Zarre: One we can lock in place if needed.
Uadjet: Any others?
Resildren: the tabs for the short cuts but i just put that one in
Zarre: Some way to drastically increase our shortcuts with notes we can see.
Zarre: Very useful for an ongoing roleplay
Resildren: adding the notes back on the buddy lists
Uadjet: Would a book work for notes, or is misplacing it too much of an issue?
Uadjet: Ahh, notes on buddy list. That was a nice one.
Zarre: Yes...that too. It was simple at add an underscore after the players first name to type a note after.
Resildren: need a comfortable way to cut and paste the dialog
Anysu: Yeah add notes to buddy list.
Gonger: Well, even Editing the buddy list no longer works.
Resildren: there is a edit button on the buddy lists but seems inactive
Anysu: The autofilling in of a name when you start to typ a name.
Zarre: Not unlike the guild window option buttons. They need work too methinks.
Zarre: Couldn't change the MOTD in guild today.
Uadjet: No?
Zarre: nope
Gonger: Buddy List: Add / Del work, Edit does not work.
Zarre: I see a white window in guild instead of the current MOTD
Resildren: might mention that Talad while working on the drawings today actually managed to open an exisiting sign, so in time all the ones that are up will be back i service,... one he debugs a few issues there
Gonger: If you click Edit, the text is still there, but in very week colour, Zarre.
Anysu: Great to hear Res
Gonger: And the MOTD needs to be max 200 characters.
Zarre: I see no text but managed to highlight it.
Anysu: I tried to delete someone from buddy and got message do you really want to delete this person...
Zarre: Thanks for the tip
Uadjet: Did it say something like "from the list", or was it asking if you wanted to delete the actual person
Gonger: Zarre, editing is definitely possible, I just did it.
Anysu: "Are you sure you want to delete and then gave player character name from list'
Anysu: *from buddies I mean
Uadjet: I'm not sure players should have the power to delete each other...
Zarre: I changed the default gamma to much darker and can still barely see any text. Must just be this old PC's settings.
Anysu: Just deleteing them from buddy list was what I tries
Uadjet: But again, we're well past the hour, so let's call it a day. Conversation can continue on Discord, or on the forum.
Gonger: Zarre, as I said, the text is shown very weakly for me as well.
Zarre: Probably a simple fix for Talad...hopefully.
Gonger: As usual, do not forget to leave the room before quitting. This is one more bug that we would love to see gone...
