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General Category => Suggestions & Ideas => Topic started by: Sarias on October 08, 2009, 10:24:56 am

Title: Suggestion on emotes
Post by: Sarias on October 08, 2009, 10:24:56 am
This is just a suggestion, since I've been roleplaying a couple times and it has proven to be quite annoying for both me and the other rper. But is there a way to make emotes a little bit longer than 94 words? Perhaps maybe 110 or 115? It's kind of hard to shove a scene into that many words without going crazy from seeing your emotes cut off. Thanks for your guy's help. ^_^
Title: Re: Suggestion on emotes
Post by: Prometheus on October 08, 2009, 03:30:10 pm
Well let me look and see what I can find out on it and I will get back to you.

Prometheus
Title: Re: Suggestion on emotes
Post by: Tocharaeh on October 08, 2009, 09:32:48 pm
what would also be a good idea would be the implementation of pmotes.

Example of a pmote(personal emote):

type pmote dances in a circle around Sarias.

message to everyone in the room:

Tocharaeh dances in a circle around Sarias.

What sarias see's:

Tocharaeh dances in a circle around you.

What I see:

You dance in a circle around Sarias.
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I've always been a fan of pmotes because it allows for more direct interaction vs. the constant third person. I think the way emotes send the actor a message should change also so that it's more personal. I'd rather see "You" than see "Tocharaeh" when I've typed an emote/pmote.
Title: Re: Suggestion on emotes
Post by: kitolani on October 09, 2009, 05:41:45 pm
Thumbs up on pmotes.  I've been wanting to see something like that for a long time.  ;D
Title: Re: Suggestion on emotes
Post by: Sarias on October 10, 2009, 04:34:11 pm
Well let me look and see what I can find out on it and I will get back to you.

Prometheus


Aww. Thanks so much. ^_^
Title: Re: Suggestion on emotes
Post by: horus on October 13, 2009, 09:45:09 am
Thumbs up on pmotes.  I've been wanting to see something like that for a long time.  ;D

You've been wanting to see Tochy dance in circles around Sarias?
Title: Re: Suggestion on emotes
Post by: Prometheus on October 13, 2009, 10:23:26 pm
Well if I can figure out how emotes work in the code I will see on the private emote. No promises though.

Prometheus.
Title: Re: Suggestion on emotes
Post by: Prometheus on October 20, 2009, 03:37:21 pm
I looked at the code and there is a limit to how long of a string of characters you can have for emote. Ie string of characters are words and spaces. Now I can add to the max length. I don't want to mess with the max length itself. I won't say how long the max length is but right now in the code it is max + 4 characters. I can try increasing this but I'm concerned that this might crash the mud. It shouldn't be to hard to add an pemote but one thing at a time. Sarias is asking for about 100 words or so. Thing is to me the max buffer should be more than enough. I'm willing to increase it maybe 13 more characters. I need to think on this some more.

Prometheus
Title: Re: Suggestion on emotes
Post by: Prometheus on October 20, 2009, 04:23:49 pm
Okay I tested this out on the mud. And I got 7.5 lines of emote before it cut off. This is plenty enough for an emote. I will see about the pemote and see if any of the immortals have any objections to this if I can code that in.

Prometheus