Server Help

[NightHawk]

I suggest adding the squad of your current name to the LOGINOK:Name login resonse. This way, clients can easily put the right squad in when you press # to send a squad message.

[SuSE]

CRAZY TALK!

[CypherJF]

Or simply have the end-user enter the information into the client. Although, I'd like to have squads listed with each player, Grel. had simply said that this is a "simple chat" protocol.
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[Smong]

If you want to add extra server dependant things to your client go ahead. The official distro will ignore messages it doesn't recognize. You can make a module to hook new message types. Simplified example:

Code: Show/Hide chatnet->AddHandler("GETSQUAD", myhandler); myhandler(p, line) { t = getplayerbyname(line) sendmessage(p, t->squad) }

If Grelminar adds python support to the chatnet module then this could be done in minutes.

[NightHawk]

obviously you could do something like that, but this is a suggestion for the official version.

[Mine GO BOOM]

[CypherJF]

Back to Smong suggesting adding your own Chatnet commands; the last thing we need, is every zone making their own splinter of the protocol. Ya know what I mean?

[-Smong-]

Come on, 'simple chat'. Since when did IRC even have squads?

It doesn't matter if a zone does or does not support extra protocol, the client should handle this gracefully. A query (also handled by the custom module) can be sent by the client asking whether it implements a specific message type.

There's no reason why a client can't be closed to public. A zone could for example create a remote admin control panel using a custom chatnet client distributed to staff only or a website with scripted pages.

[NightHawk]

[Mine GO BOOM]

Ok then, a simple ?squad command would be fine. Hopefully Grelminar should see this thread, and maybe add it into playercmd.c. Until then, others should recommend a better outputting string that what I used.

Code: Show/Hide local helptext_t squad_help = "Targets: none or player\n" "Args: none\n" "Displays your or a target player's current squad.\n"; local void Csquad(const char *params, Player *p, const Target *target) {    Player *t = (target->type) == T_PLAYER ? target->u.p : p;    chat->SendMessage(p,       "Squad for %s: %s",       t->name,       t->squad[0] ? t->squad : ":none:"); }

[NightHawk]

?squad is already a billing command, i assume..
i guess you could use this, but it's kind of ugly design wise doing ?squad, hiding the result from the client's screen, etc.

resorting to parsing user commands, aghh, sounds like a bot on subgame2.