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Serban's BBS for MySQL/NWNX2 FINAL

Author

f0ul cr0w

Submitted / Updated

10-01-2004 / 11-22-2006

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HOTU-1.62

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This is Serban's Original Board format altered for use with MySQL and APS/NWNX2.  If you don't have them, get them!

Instructions:

 - Unzip

 - Import the .erf Go ahead and overwrite everything.

 - Place your bulletin board and scribe.  Rebuild your module.

 - Load the game up in NWNX2, and log in as a DM.  Execute this command in the console:  dm_runscript bbs_create_table        This will create two tables that this sytem uses.

*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 for APS

The Bulletin Board System allows players to read, post, and delete messages persistently using APS/NWNX2.

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 50 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 Papillon and APS/NWNX2.

Changes from 1.0 to Final
- Option to delete posts
- Fixed error concerning Next/Previous Page options.
- Persistence Added
- 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/

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Same layout as Serban's original, and has the option to remove messages as well as persistence. Uses APS/NWNx2 and written for MySQL. See bbs_aps_final.txt for more info.

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Name	Type	Size	Downloads
f0ul_cr0w1096654000359bbsapsfinal.zipf0ul_cr0w1096654000359bbsapsfinal.zip Submitted: 10-01-2004 / Last Updated: 10-01-2004	zip	49.63Kb	377
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Comments (6):

Posted by f0ul_cr0w at 2005-10-02 11:32:32 Voted 10.00 on 10/06/04

Forgive me, but I'm not sure what you're asking. Is the download broke?

Posted by Jaded Nexus at 2005-08-18 18:18:24

yeah that would be great if you could repost
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Posted by f0ul_cr0w at 2005-03-31 18:44:00 Voted 10.00 on 10/06/04

Before this will work you MUST log in as DM and hit the tilde button (~).
Then, type this:
dm_runscript bbs_create_table
And hit enter. That sets up the necessary tables the system uses. After that it should work.

Posted by f0ul_cr0w at 2004-11-08 20:37:00 Voted 10.00 on 10/06/04

For anyohe interested: If you looked in your nwnx_odbc log file and didn't like all the extra SELECTS that aren't returning anything, and want those to stop being queried, I changed the Total Items to a local to use in the loops, so the extra calls aren't made. I can repackage and repost as an update if anyone would like. Let me know.

Posted by f0ul_cr0w at 2004-10-06 07:23:01 Voted 10.00 on 10/06/04

Gotta vote for my own content =P.
Aside from that though, this is much faster than the BW DB version that I released, and is similar to Buu's I suppose but without all the xtra clutter on the board.

Posted by f0ul_cr0w at 2004-10-05 20:54:00 Voted 10.00 on 10/06/04

Don't know how the aps_include got in the package, but don't overwrite it when you import.

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