Droid Engineer Archive
Thread: barker droids
Yea i would like to know alot of these answers also, wodering if I will even make these barking droids, spam is already bad enough
its my hope that these barker droids are the devs fix for the spam problem in the starports....if they come with some kind of fix/nerf to limit starport spammers from spamming every 5 seconds and a good advertising system for the droids then this could be a good business for DE's everywhere..I hope they realize that droids that spam themselves will only increase a already bad problem...a colorable signto hover over the droid and a mail or conversation system to list stock /prices in your vendor would increase sales for all merchants that use them...and i personally would love to see alot of droids around starports......its like that in every star wars movie so why not SWG..........czar'rok
its my hope that these barker droids are the devs fix for the spam problem in the starports....if they come with some kind of fix/nerf to limit starport spammers from spamming every 5 seconds and a good advertising system for the droids then this could be a good business for DE's everywhere..I hope they realize that droids that spam themselves will only increase a already bad problem...a colorable signto hover over the droid and a mail or conversation system to list stock /prices in your vendor would increase sales for all merchants that use them...and i personally would love to see alot of droids around starports......its like that in every star wars movie so why not SWG..........czar'rok
Envoy3113 wrote:
I know it's early, but a few concerns that could probally use some discussion.
It isn't really early, the code should be almost finished and no details have been released to address your concerns or mine. This could be a great, game changing, feature, or it could be a bust depending on implementation. Perhaps TK has been shown something, but he hasn't dropped any hints.
My suspicion is that nobody has said anything because the coders haven't finished and they have been given no guidance as to how it should work. Meanwhile, they are coding away on the worst possible interpretation of the limited description of the module that was written.
Therefore the resulting, completely useless, module will be:
- A utility module that can be inserted in any droid. The resulting droid can be used by anyone, no certs are required.
- The module will allow two new commands bark and info to the owner, and a new radial based command "view info" for others.
- Bark will have sub-menus of edit bark, and start barking. The only way to stop barking will be to store the droid.
- Edit bark will open an edit control on the bark string which will have name filter rules for acceptability; many common, non-obscene, words will be restricted making entry of a valid bark difficult. There will, however, be no upper bound on the length of the string.
- Start barking will ask for a frequency in seconds and have no lower limit, the default will be once per second.
- Ignore will not work for droid barks.
- Edit info will open an edit control on the info page. This will also go through a name filter like the bark. However, it will have a length limit of 32 characters.
- View info will open a display of the info string in a window that fills most of the screen at open. Resizing it will only persist for that instance, the next one you open will go back to default.
- The view info screen option will only appear, and the window only stay open if you are within 5m of the droid. Since many will be set to patrol, this will make the window impossible to open, or keep open.
- The presence of the module will insure that the droid auto-stores instantly if you disconnect, take a shuttle or cross a server boundry.
Note that this is only a nightmare in the absence of information, not what I or anybody else wants!
Haruspex77
Good one...like many things in life we laugh because it's funny and we laugh because it's true.
TheOrb wrote:
Should the "barking" droids have a cert?
If they don't, we might have a problem with spam.
If they do, we will not sell many.
/shrug
What if the advertisement only shows once, when the player gets near it. And what if ONLY that player see's it (and just that one time...maybe have it reset after 5 minutes or if you get 128m away)? I am against the droid sending personal /tells, but how about something like a /tell....without the sound? Maybe a different color?
The thing about Certifications is that you can argue it reasonably both ways
For Certs:
A Barking droid can give the co-ordinates of a shop, and is something that was implied and promised in th Merchant Tree
Against Certs:
A barking Droid could be set up to convey information that could equate to a player made POI. For example, my guild has set up 2 imperial bases and 2 rebel bases to form a pseudo battlfield, and a barker droid would be very useful to tell people not to try to destroy the bases, etc
just a thought