Ink Posted August 11, 2020 Share Posted August 11, 2020 (edited) Short description: Make /contacts more user-friendly by offering basic ways to sort and filter the results. Detailed description: Our phone's display of contacts need a reworking that's larger than what is being presented here, but that would be better for a more detailed thread later down the line because that will take substantially more work or even re-imagining how our phones store and display contacts. This suggestion is strictly towards an easy fix to make /contacts much more user-friendly. This is about maximizing the gain for players while reducing the amount of work required for developers. This will tide us over until a more thorough reworking of the phone contacts system can be designed. Right now /contacts print in a way which is only really useful if you have a few contacts. Past a certain amount, the results may not even be accessible fully without chatlog parsing. The most important feature would be the ability to filter results to only show online contacts. Most people use /contacts to quickly determine which of their character's contacts are currently online in-game. As a tool, this allows people to quickly find out who they can ICly reach out to. I am not aware of how complex the process would be to reorganize the results and read them in a different sort on the fly, so if no other change is made to /contacts at least make it so we can filter out Offline contacts if we desire. It could even just be a matter of "/contactson" Commands to add: /sortcontacts [type] [all/online] Type 1 = In order of how the contacts were entered (how they are now), ascending. (Oldest show up on top, newest show up on bottom) Type 2 = in order of how the contacts were entered, descending. (Newest show up on top, oldest show up on bottom) Type 3 = A-Z by name Type 4 = Z-A by name All = Show all contacts whether offline or online. Online = Filter so only online contacts are displayed. /contacts This command would remain the same, but this time it will return the list of contacts as sorted by the command. Items to add: None. How would your suggestion improve the server? Make it easier to quickly figure out who is online and to help you narrow your focus as a player in on engaging with other players rather than killing time or necessitating more OOC forms of figuring out who to RP with. Additional information: Edited August 11, 2020 by Ink 1 Link to comment
Developer St3fan[NL] Posted August 11, 2020 Developer Share Posted August 11, 2020 Shouldnt be hard, we got some script functions for this. But not sure how many people would use/need this so lets get some replies first. 1 Link to comment
Valkyria Posted August 11, 2020 Share Posted August 11, 2020 This really isn't needed at all. If you have too many contacts that you can't go through them without a parser, maybe that's kind of a you problem... Link to comment
HerrFalcon Posted August 11, 2020 Share Posted August 11, 2020 I support this idea. Especially the /contacts online part where I can easily navigate instead of scrolling all the way. My character do have lots of contacts so this makes life easier. Link to comment
Manjot Posted August 11, 2020 Share Posted August 11, 2020 I definitely support this idea. Link to comment
Daquan Kingston Posted August 11, 2020 Share Posted August 11, 2020 Hell fucking yes. It's so annoying having to scroll every single time every single day. Please add this there are only benefits. Link to comment
Bloodseeker Posted August 11, 2020 Share Posted August 11, 2020 good idea, I'd definitely find use in this. but if this "advanced method" is too much of a hassle to implement, something simpler could be done instead with far less effort, such as having the online contacts start listing from the bottom of the chatbox with the offlines stacked at the top Link to comment
bbnojuice Posted August 11, 2020 Share Posted August 11, 2020 Even just being able to sort by who is online/offline would be a great implementation. Support! Link to comment
Tree Posted August 11, 2020 Share Posted August 11, 2020 Yes please. I'm not to the point yet where I have that many contacts but it will likely happen soon enough Link to comment
afrosamurai Posted August 12, 2020 Share Posted August 12, 2020 Quality of life improvement, support + Link to comment
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