| Paging players ingame [message #374964] |
Thu, 05 March 2009 10:06  |
a000clown
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Registered: May 2005
Location: Canada
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I remember reading something about this but I can't find any specific thread for it.
Is anything being done to the paging system? Specifically about how annoying the / char can be when you're actually trying to type without paging some random person ingame.
If nothing has been done yet, my simple suggestion (in theory, I have no idea how hard this would be to code) is to allow the player to choose what character they want to use in place of the forward slash.
Alternatively, force the use of /page <nick> instead of simply /<nick>
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| Re: Paging players ingame [message #375054 is a reply to message #375004] |
Thu, 05 March 2009 16:42  |
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Jerad2142
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| StealthEye wrote on Thu, 05 March 2009 12:41 |
The / will stay, however it will stop autocompleting if it is not the first character in the message. 
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Umm, what about the names that for some reason don't do any auto completing until at least 2 characters have been entered?
| a000clown wrote on Thu, 05 March 2009 15:24 |
| Jerad Gray wrote on Thu, 05 March 2009 14:15 |
The alternative suggestion just seems like it would cost us more time to type, what is so important about the / char, using it for a server side mode? If so most of the servers I've seen usually just use !.
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I guess I just use the slash char more compared to others; Real sentences though, has nothing to do with modded servs.
| StealthEye wrote on Thu, 05 March 2009 14:41 |
The / will stay, however it will stop autocompleting if it is not the first character in the message.
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That's even better, thanks 
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/ As the start of a sentence? Sounds like a bad habit to get into 
How about escape and / as I hate clicking player names to page *cough* bf2142 *cough* plus I like to be able to cancel my typing if I see an enemy, and you can't do that in the escape menu.
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| Re: Paging players ingame [message #375062 is a reply to message #374964] |
Thu, 05 March 2009 18:03 |
a000clown
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I don't think you understand what's been said.
When you type the / char mid-sentence and the next char happens to be the beginning of some person's nick it will auto-complete it for you, which isn't what I want.
StealthEye said only when the / is the first char in the phrase will it auto-complete so that the above scenario doesn't happen, it has nothing to do with the length or uniqueness of the player's nick.
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