So this new idea comes way of inspiration from this thread, and some RP stuff I've been talking with McDanky about. The issue I have with that old suggestion of Thanius's was that it's just random tooltips. That's neat and all, but you can't be sure someone will see specific ones, and realistically how many people look at those tips very much anyways? What I want to suggest could (hopefully) have some utility in both towns and server stuff.
That's something of how I envision the command looking. It would work so that when you walk into a zone that has a message tied to it you would have a little message pop up in your chat that goes something like "[!] There's a note tied to this area! Click here to read it." and when they click, the full message of something like "Industries need constant maintenance, please check the input and output chests!" pops up. You could also just skip that middle step entirely of having them open the full message and just have the full message appear right away, that's really just an idea of how to keep it a bit less chat spam-y. Realistically this is functionality that can simply be accomplished with signs laying around but...
1. A whole lot of signs can be kinda ugly.
2. In areas with multiple entrances this would allow you to do that without having to set a sign for every entrance.
3. People who enter are guaranteed to get the message in some capacity
4. Can just be useful in general for explaining about the town, (what is this "void storage" vault?) and can possibly be used for more server side elements like explaining what the Dreadfort is when somebody stumbles upon it (Although I imagine the admins or elders already have ways to do this).
Ultimately it's a pretty trivial thing in the grand scheme of Loka, but I know I already have a bunch of ideas on how to use it in within my town and I'm sure other people can find some good uses for it too. Anyways, if there's some issue I'm missing here, just let me know. Otherwise, thanks for enduring my latest rambling!
/g z note (zone name) (message)
That's something of how I envision the command looking. It would work so that when you walk into a zone that has a message tied to it you would have a little message pop up in your chat that goes something like "[!] There's a note tied to this area! Click here to read it." and when they click, the full message of something like "Industries need constant maintenance, please check the input and output chests!" pops up. You could also just skip that middle step entirely of having them open the full message and just have the full message appear right away, that's really just an idea of how to keep it a bit less chat spam-y. Realistically this is functionality that can simply be accomplished with signs laying around but...
1. A whole lot of signs can be kinda ugly.
2. In areas with multiple entrances this would allow you to do that without having to set a sign for every entrance.
3. People who enter are guaranteed to get the message in some capacity
4. Can just be useful in general for explaining about the town, (what is this "void storage" vault?) and can possibly be used for more server side elements like explaining what the Dreadfort is when somebody stumbles upon it (Although I imagine the admins or elders already have ways to do this).
Ultimately it's a pretty trivial thing in the grand scheme of Loka, but I know I already have a bunch of ideas on how to use it in within my town and I'm sure other people can find some good uses for it too. Anyways, if there's some issue I'm missing here, just let me know. Otherwise, thanks for enduring my latest rambling!
