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Self_Destructo · Post by **Self_Destructo** » Mon Mar 20, 2006 9:48 pm

Is there a way, if someone's name is impossible to spell in tron, that you can pm them? My think is that there is...

Also, what do you call the chat feature where you can /me ingame...

Post by **Tank Program** » Mon Mar 20, 2006 10:12 pm

If I've got this straight with 0.2.8.0 you can specify just part of the name.

Post by **Lucifer** » Mon Mar 20, 2006 10:24 pm

Yeah, just put part of their name. It has to be the first part, I couldn't put "Destru" and expect to get you with it.

/me, last time I checked, was called "action", but that's a 14-year old memory and likely to be inaccurate.

Self_Destructo · Post by **Self_Destructo** » Mon Mar 20, 2006 10:25 pm

Why not have it to where you can specify the player ID? Much easier really. And if thier nick starts out with a special character then you're stuck already, but not when using player ID.

Post by **Lucifer** » Mon Mar 20, 2006 10:29 pm

I don't know. Maybe you can and I just don't know it.

OTOH, if what you have to say to the guy is so private that you have to use /msg to say it, why can't you take it to IM?

It is true that this feature can use some work, but the first version of anything isn't the most complete, and this is a brandy-new feature.

Website · Post by **Z-Man** » Mon Mar 20, 2006 10:45 pm

The ID would not be the Right Thing here because the "player ID" is not really a player ID, but a client ID. Players on the same client get the same ID. It's meaningful to show for the server admin so he can kick clients.

Plus, imagine a player named just "1"...

If it's the strange letters: you can ignore them and use unaccented letters instead. /msg goes by the user name where that stuff is filtered out, and you get it displayed with /players.

Self_Destructo · Post by **Self_Destructo** » Mon Mar 20, 2006 11:00 pm

OK, ty, I'll add that to the wiki.

Fonkay · Post by **Fonkay** » Tue Mar 21, 2006 3:48 am

Lucifer wrote:Yeah, just put part of their name. It has to be the first part, I couldn't put "Destru" and expect to get you with it.

As far as I know you can put any part of the name. Like with Joe i could put joe and get him even though his name is DrJoeTron as long as the capitals are right, and there isn't someone else in the arena named joe, or Mojoe, or anything to that affect. But maybe I'm wrong.

EDIT: No, I'm not wrong, tested it out last night. I PM'd Supertard using the 2 consecutive letters that weren't characters (RT) and that did the trick.

iceman · Post by **iceman** » Tue Mar 21, 2006 1:38 pm

maybe players id could be displayed when someone chats like this ?

[6] iceman: hello

Website · Post by **Z-Man** » Tue Mar 21, 2006 11:55 pm

Still does not solve the player with the number name problem

We'd need a different chat command.

microbus · Post by **microbus** » Sun Mar 26, 2006 7:35 am

maybe something like /msg u3 for user 3, and the chat part would
know it's for that because of the U, so it wouldn't send it to somebody
with that nick?
Then if someone has a nick like u2 or u7 they wouldn't be able to
receive private messages, but they'd learn quick enough

Website · Post by **Z-Man** » Sun Mar 26, 2006 2:21 pm

It's not u2 who has to learn, it's the countless other players who want to sent him a pm and end up messaging the wrong guy

u2 would have to go around shouting "dont do /pm u2!" all of the time

hang3r · Post by **hang3r** » Sun Mar 26, 2006 2:51 pm

I guess the correct way you could do it would be to have 1 byte at the start of the nickname string. This one byte would only be added by the server. With this one byte you can obviously have 1-255 player ID's (excluding zero, we don’t want to terminate the string at the start).

Messaging by part of nickname or by ID, either way I don’t really care

The problem with messaging by nickname is characters that it may contain (have you ever tried PM'ing Supertard?).

Maybe in the future we will see a messaging menu, with which you could just press a key to bring up the menu, then scroll with arrow keys to select a player, and just hit enter to start typing a message to that player. Extending this you might also have a Global menu (all players connected to server) and a team menu (Only your current team members) with buttons to switch between the two.

Fonkay · Post by **Fonkay** » Mon Mar 27, 2006 12:38 am

hang3r wrote:(have you ever tried PM'ing Supertard?).

Fonkay wrote:As far as I know you can put any part of the name. Like with Joe i could put joe and get him even though his name is DrJoeTron as long as the capitals are right, and there isn't someone else in the arena named joe, or Mojoe, or anything to that affect. But maybe I'm wrong.

EDIT: No, I'm not wrong, tested it out last night. I PM'd Supertard using the 2 consecutive letters that weren't characters (RT) and that did the trick.

hang3r · Post by **hang3r** » Mon Mar 27, 2006 11:14 am

Fonkay wrote: EDIT: No, I'm not wrong, tested it out last night. I PM'd Supertard using the 2 consecutive letters that weren't characters (RT) and that did the trick.

Yeah that’s right, you can do that but, if another player has those consecutive letters then there is no way to distinguish between the two (because you can’t remember the ASCII character codes).