The Bulletin Board allows characters to leave messages for each other in-game. Useful messages could be requests for party members or items for sale. It would be most useful in persistant world settings where the players may not know each other and SHOUTing to all characters might be rude.
This is an update of what used to be the Town Crier Bulletin Board. I had to use the kludge of turning it into the 'Town Crier' character since placeables can't listen for posts. Now I'm using an invisible ghost (hiding will-o-wisp) to hear the messages but the characters just interact with a Bulletin Board placeable.
This is a compilation of the old system into a single score. There were 3 that made this score of 5.00 then rounded to 5.
Posted by drako_wolfheart ( ..xxx.xxx ) at 2003-01-14 21:14:00
The PW system you describe (writing to log files and
reading them back in afterwards) would be either the PWUM
or the PWDB. They are almost identical in function.
I wrote the PWUM many months ago and am not sure how much
needs to be redone (many little changes), so it may be
wiser to use the PWDB to store data. Not sure.
Anywho, I thought I'd jump on and let you know where to
look.
Posted by Thirsty Bear ( ..xxx.xxx ) at 2003-01-14 19:03:00
D'oh! No, it wouldn't be persistant over a server
restart. Actually, even if your character leaves the
server none of their messages will show up any more. I did
it that way so that the messages wouldn't just accumulate
infinitely.
However, I did read that somebody did the insanely cool
feat of having variables maintained over a restart by using
the log and then putting them into scripts in the override
directory. That could probably be easily integrated into
this.
But anyway, what kind of messages would a user want to post
that would remain after a restart? I didn't think of it as
being a huge issue.
Posted by Jarketh Thavin ( ..xxx.xxx ) at 2003-01-14 12:29:00
So, is this -truly- persistent by using a database to
store values, or does it simply require save games to
restore messages?
Posted by Hing-ding-dong ( ..xxx.xxx ) at 2003-01-14 11:29:00
Good for PW! Awesome. So when the server shuts down, all
the messages are saved for when the server loads back up
again! Excellent!
Thanks for your hard work in making this possible for PWs!
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