New 'Who' Command

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New 'Who' Command

Post by apex »

perhaps theres a way to code in "Who <off/def/blaster/healer>"

add a set partyrole <___>
make putting parties together a bit easier.. less scrolling through multiple guild lists and stuff.

yes I know i'm lazy.
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Post by aarmon »

what about flags that can be set manually.

looking for group
looking for healer/tank/mage ....
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dunn
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Post by dunn »

forget guild lists, scroll individual players to filter out 5 hour idle players. 'who guild blaster' is the least of your problems :)
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Post by etadan »

I'd like "here" option for who, like "who guild air_priest here" to check if any air priests are idling at ere/inn/etc atm and such.
And maybe some option to show main+subguilds instead of titles.
Beyond good..
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Post by apex »

it would jsut be quite nice to type
"Who unidle off-tank"
than
"Who unidle guild shapeshifter
Who unidle guild monk
Who unidle guild army
Who unidle guild templar
Who unidle guild ranger"

or "who unidle guild blaster" rather than
"who unidle guild mage
who unidle guild psionicist
who unidle guild sorcerer
who unidle guild archer"

:P
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misrobo
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Post by misrobo »

I implemented:

Code: Select all

who guild healer
who guild tank
who guild blaster
Though healer is the same as air_priest for any forseeable future and blaster is a bit odd since it contains anyone in archers and a lot of those people can't shoot worth beans.

Likewise tank doesn't tell between off tank and def tank since that is hard.

Oh well.. Use it a while and if you want refinement post more.
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Post by felgand »

I think this change adds very little, if anything, to the who command since looking through individual main guilds was 100% suitable for the task already. As it stands, most parties look for a specific type of blaster to work with and having them all jumbled up into one big mess doesn't really do anyone any good. Likewise, most parties look for specific types of tanks and presenting them in one uninformative lump is tedious at best.
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Post by khade »

amazing how pessimistic some people can be. the old ways should still work, and it probably would be helpful to have them grouped a bit.

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Post by felgand »

I'm quite aware that the old ways work, but the new change has dubious value at best and takes away from attention that could be placed to more fruitful and useful gain.
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Post by misrobo »

I look at it as a stepping stone. The experienced party leaders will never use it. But for newbies trying to figure out how to pull together a party they may use it for a while before they become "party member connoisseurs".

"who guild share unidle" would have been good too, but that assumes you know all the people you would party with and is not as trivial to code.
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Post by echcua »

I am just wondering does the who command really need modification? It would appear to me that it fulfills its purpose quite reasonably. Well thats my opinion.
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Post by dunn »

An extension to command options never hurt anyone, I think it works great. :)
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Post by zaec »

or just 'alias bobbo who guild air_priest unidle notpartying'
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Post by echcua »

Actually needless extensions are harmful as it just adds bits and pieces to code, which after a while makes the code illegible therefore one day some poor sod has to read and attempt to fix when it breaks.
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