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Originally Posted by Inverness
So script one 
I know for Aeon I was planning on making a little /tell system like on Planetside and lots of other MMOs, so you can do /t[ell] <account/nick> <text> to send them a screen message. |
I think that this is Brilliant But.
While we should all be able to script our own PM system, it needs to be simple and at least quasi-standardized. (See also: Templates) - if Stefan releases the scripted version of PMs and removes F7 PMs, then we can all just edit the PM class via RC and voila, we have all the PM features we want. If your server has custom graphics for the player's portrait, you can display their avatar as they're talking to you. If your server uses cellphones for PMs, you can have it appear in one of those static-bubbles. You can script it to be a standalone window or a bit of the screen real-estate. You can script it to hide people who succeed on their Ninja attempt. You can script it to show important server-NPCs who have themselves been scripted to respond to PMs. You can script it to make the LAT utterly invisible while they're testing something. You can script it to translate common phrases in (effectively) every language. You can script it with any smilies you care to create. You can script it so Humans can't even PM to (Baddies). You can script it so everything PMed from jail is "You gotta let me out, I'm innocent!" "Attica! Attica!", unless it goes to a staffer.
That's what we need.