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Serban's BBS FINAL - 9/2004

Author

f0ul cr0w

Submitted / Updated

09-26-2004 / 11-22-2006

Category

Database Related

Expansions

HOTU-1.62

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All credit goes to Serban for this update.  He was unable to make the changes himself, so he wrote the new function up without even having access to NWN.  This update is being done by f0ul cr0w for testing it and making it compatible with Knat's added persistency.  This is the full package, one .erf with everything you need.

Instructions:

 - Unzip

 - Import the .erf Go ahead and overwrite everything.

 - Rebuild your module and you're done.  Get in game and check it out.  Post to the Vault if you have any problems.

*NOTE* This was tested by only one person.  So please test it out with multiple people if you can, and post any problems.


Original Package, not needed, but what started it all:
http://nwvault.ign.com/Files/scripts/data/1026158289648.shtml

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BBS v Final

The Bulletin Board System allows players to read, post, and delete messages persistently.

The system consists of a Scribe (NPC) and the Bulletin Board (Signpost placeable). 

Players can talk to the Scribe and get an item called Bulletin Board Notice. During conversation, the Scribe will ask a player to speak a title and a message, clicking Done after each. To speak, the player has to type a message and press Enter, as if addressing another player. Upon successful input, the item is given to the player. The player can then walk up to the Bulletin Board and select the Post Message dialogue option to have their message entered on the Bulletin Board.

The Bulletin Board displays messages in reverse chronological order so the latest message appears first. Players can page through the listings which consist of the title and name of the poster. The default page length is 5 entries, but it can be set for any number between 1 and 10. When a player posts a message, the Bulletin Board Notice disappears from their inventory. If the player has more than one, one will be taken at random. Once the maximum number of messages for the Bulletin Board has been reached, older messages will be deleted to make space for new ones. The default maximum is 25 messages. To change these defaults,
look at the "void bbs_initiate" function inside the "bbs_include" script.

All Bulletin Boards with the same tag share the messages. If you change the tags you end up with separate Bulletin Boards. For example, you could have it so the Bulletin Boards in the same city show the same messages, but be different from city to city.

The Bulletin Board System uses custom tokens in the range 3671 - 3699. Hopefully these won't conflict with any you might be using.

The "bbs_include" script contains a function "void bbs_add_notice". You can use it to post messages from NPCs to the Bulletin Board and make it seem more lively, perhaps with minor quests. For more information read the comments above the function.

Because the "bbs_include" script is used as an include file, it does not have a "void main", so whenever you compile that script or build your module you will get a compiling error in it. That is normal and does not affect operation in any way.

The code for capturing a PC spoken string came from a post by gsmithcat in the NWN Scripting forum.

HOW TO IMPLEMENT IN YOUR MODULE
Import the ERF file. If you're updating, this is the full package, so overwrite everything.  Paint the Scribe NPC (Creatures - Custom - NPCs - Humans) and the Bulletin Board placeable (Placeable Objects - Custom - Penants & Signs) in an area, preferably next to each other. That's it!

USING IT WITH PERSISTENT WORLDS
Fully Persistent thanks to Knat and the Bioware DB.

Changes from 1.0 to Final
- Option to delete posts
- Persistence Added by Knat
- Made the conversation with the Bulletin Board private so it doesn't appear to players nearby
- Removed the need to call bbs_initiate before bbs_add_notice
- Messages now written to log file so they can be restored *unnecessary in final, commented out*

       f0ul cr0w
xBlackened_Sunx@yahoo.com

Author:
Serban Oprescu
serban@pixelsharp.com
http://www.pixelsharp.com/projects/nwn/

Also, big thanks to Knat

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Serban's BBS with the option to delete entries. Modified from Knats DB AddOn to maintain persistent entries. This is one .erf for the whole package. Import, overwrite everything, comment on the functionality. -f0ul cr0w

Files

Name	Type	Size	Downloads
bbsdbasefinal.zipbbsdbasefinal.zip Submitted: 09-26-2004 / Last Updated: 09-28-2004	zip	43.22Kb	356
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Comments (5):

Posted by yoid at 2007-03-03 23:37:10 Voted 10.00 on 03/03/07

Great !

Posted by Darkvalley at 2007-01-02 03:55:52 Voted 9.75 on 01/02/07

Working fine thanks a lot!

Posted by f0ul_cr0w at 2004-09-30 14:26:00

I just re-wrote the code for use with APS. The board appears to function exactly the same in game, but the bbs_include is very different. It doesn't show any signs of sag or spike when deleting or doing anything. I will post a link to that version soon. It's for use MySQL. There is one on the vault that says it's MySQL but apparently it is MSSQL, which works different apparently. Anyways, when I get the link, you guys get the link.

_fc

Posted by f0ul_cr0w at 2004-09-28 11:35:00

Heh. 30 downloads after I said wait for update. I do think it's updated now though. So try it out if you want. There will be a small spike upon using the delete option depending on how many entries you have. The way the system is set up, I think it would need to be restructured in order to improve the performance, unless perhaps Knat's NDBE system would help (which I haven't tried). If I do decide to redo it, it will probably use MySQL instead of the BDB, and that would have an undefined eta. Anyways, big thanks to Serban for this.

Posted by f0ul_cr0w at 2004-09-27 16:34:00

Don't download this. Bad version. Wait for a new one.

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