IM Support?

Infa(mous) · Post by **Infa(mous)** » Wed Oct 01, 2008 12:07 am

I wonder... could there be instant messaging support in the game, like with a chat command? a command like /msn <buddy name> <message>
or /aim, or even /irc <channel>?

Post by **Lucifer** » Wed Oct 01, 2008 3:25 am

Wouldn't that just bring more illiterate chat to the game?

sinewav · Post by **sinewav** » Wed Oct 01, 2008 3:58 am

...and unnecessary lag? Maybe instead of chatting, you can concentrate on the game instead? Or even better, find a lightcycle clone to play in you IM client! Problem solved.

onearmbandit · Post by **onearmbandit** » Wed Oct 01, 2008 4:21 pm

Talking about chat,
isn't there a way to make the chat font size smaller?
so far i tried searching and only found FONT_BIG_THRESHOLD_HEIGHT
But there seems to be a limit to have small you can make it.

Little bit off topic....

Post by **epsy** » Wed Oct 01, 2008 5:18 pm

CONSOLE_COLUMNS

onearmbandit · Post by **onearmbandit** » Wed Oct 01, 2008 7:18 pm

darn.. so easy.

big_thumps_up to you Epsy.
ty.

Luke-Jr · Post by **Luke-Jr** » Fri Oct 03, 2008 5:55 pm

This is pretty much a subset of exactly what the XMPP integration would provide (in addition to authentication)...

Infa(mous) · Post by **Infa(mous)** » Sat Oct 04, 2008 1:38 am

So you're saying... It's prolly gonna happen?

Post by **Lucifer** » Sat Oct 04, 2008 1:55 am

F! Infamous wrote:So you're saying... It's prolly gonna happen?

Heh, the XMPP card is played as a way of saying "It's not going to happen".

Monkey · Post by **Monkey** » Sat Oct 04, 2008 3:40 am

I think the concept of having builtin IM/IRC is a good idea, as long as the commands work like a normal IM/IRC client and don't send data over Arma servers. However, I am sure there are more important things to add to the game before anything like that.

Infa(mous) · Post by **Infa(mous)** » Sat Oct 04, 2008 5:44 pm

Lucifer... What do you mean by that? XMPP is pretty much google talk. and could easily be used for IM because it's for IM based authentication... right?

Luke-Jr · Post by **Luke-Jr** » Wed Oct 22, 2008 5:22 pm

F! Infamous wrote:So you're saying... It's prolly gonna happen?

Patches welcome.

Your_mom · Post by **Your_mom** » Fri Oct 24, 2008 12:08 am

This could be easily handled by script(s).

Solution 1.

Have a script capable of reading/writing to the server. Have it scan for commands /irc (everyone could see this) /pirc (only people in irc can see this). Hand over information to an irc bot have the irc bot hand any relevent bot commands to the script #armasrvr1 hello world(tell arma say irc fakename: hello world)

Solution 2.

When(if) ruby scripting in arma is complete, write a script to hand over information to your favorite im/irc client etc. you get the idea

I really dont see a point in this though, just run arma in window'd mode and have im/irc open next to it.

FourMJR · Post by **FourMJR** » Fri Oct 24, 2008 4:04 am

No offense, or anything but honestly, this is pretty dumb. Considering that I don't see any reason why this should be brought into the game, and or if it is, god bless us all...

ivantis · Post by **ivantis** » Wed Nov 19, 2008 1:31 am

so you are saying, with the /irc <chan> command, it would put all of the msgs from that channel into the game?
yeah, great idea (psh)