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Admin Feedback

Post by Miauw » #19700

I'm not an admin but I guess it'd be convenient to know what the admins think about the tools they have available and how they could be improved.

So admins, go ahead :V
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Post by Ikarrus » #19701

Some way to track and respond to unanswered adminhelps would be great.
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Post by Neerti » #19704

Theoretically Mrs_Sybil/Mr_Basil/Nonexistant Mr_Artyom do this for you.
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Post by Ikarrus » #19708

Don't they keep silent if there are admins online? That's not what I'm talking about.
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Post by Remie Richards » #19709

Ikarrus wrote:Some way to track and respond to unanswered adminhelps would be great.
Wouldn't that be as simple as a list of href links containing the mob, and what they Ahelped at the time? sort of like a logbook.
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Post by Bluespace » #19714

I really fucking want a carbon copy button godamn.
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Post by paprika » #19910

copy pasting would be byond amazing
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Post by Rumia29 » #19990

I don't remember if the base /TG/ code has this, but you know how when someone's adminhelp, it highlights the name, and puts a (?) mark beside it which you can click for mote info? That, but for jobs. Maybe not all the jobs, but at least a couple important ones like heads.
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Post by elyina » #20043

how doable would it be to make like a private memo thing? like say there's a ban request against x guy, but I can never see him online to inform him of the request and get his side of the story. with this memo thing I would be able to leave a message for them that automatically pops up in big letters when they log into the server next.
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Post by Miauw » #20135

elyina wrote:how doable would it be to make like a private memo thing? like say there's a ban request against x guy, but I can never see him online to inform him of the request and get his side of the story. with this memo thing I would be able to leave a message for them that automatically pops up in big letters when they log into the server next.
That'd probably be pretty doable but it requires DB stuff.

Carbon-copying looks like a cool thing that could probably work, but it would sadly and somewhat ironically not really be recommended for copying carbon mobs (mobs have a lot of client and ckey stuff that would fuck stuff like this up, it's also the reason mobs aren't GCd)
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Post by Bluespace » #20137

then just make it work on no ckey mobs.
or make it not copy that var.

if i spend 15 minutes personalising a mob with spells, health, color, all that kinda shit, i just wanna copy that 5 times, not spend an hour making more.
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Post by Steelpoint » #20139

Bluespace wrote:then just make it work on no ckey mobs.
or make it not copy that var.

if i spend 15 minutes personalising a mob with spells, health, color, all that kinda shit, i just wanna copy that 5 times, not spend an hour making more.
On top of that, a way to save a area of the map for later usage.

One round a admin made a Syndicate Battleship for a event, the ship was very cool in design and detail but it took the admin quite a while to make the ship.

A feature that let admins save these designs might help encourage more grander events since a admin could design the events map location before hand and then just paste it when its time.
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Post by Ikarrus » #20163

Sync the notes across all servers
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Post by paprika » #20192

^ That's the main one.

The main purpose for carbon copying would be setting up a team of death squaddies or something, since the button is gone you can't really do it without taking a ton of time to gear them up.

Interesting hostile mobs also take forever to gear up.
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Post by Ikarrus » #20199

paprika wrote:taking a ton of time to gear them up.
Right Click > Select Equipment isn't fast enough for you?
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Post by Aurx » #20201

Ikarrus wrote:
paprika wrote:taking a ton of time to gear them up.
Right Click > Select Equipment isn't fast enough for you?
That only works for a very few selections of equipment and I rarely need those selections for events.
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Post by Ikarrus » #20204

Fair enough. I was more referring to pap's deathsquad example.
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Post by paprika » #20249

Yeah death squad is still doable but to be fair nobody ever does it because a handful of competent ghosts that won't shoot each other with pulse lasers is hard to come by.

Still, event stuff would be nice.
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Post by Swagile » #20364

make opening the game panel not a laggy fuck.

i know the work around is to spawn it via text commands but unless you got all the items you want memorized, good luck spending 5 minutes trying to spawn all the items you need via game panel as it cycles through all possible items with the same name and / or close to said name.

solution: make it cycle AFTER you have typed in the full thing you want and then click OK to make it cycle instead of cycling through all item paths WHILE you are typing.
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Post by NikNakFlak » #20397

I'm going to make a little easy to read list for anyone reading this thread and add some stuff myself.
  • In-game logbook for adminhelps that are not answered
  • Carbon copy (see below)
    if i spend 15 minutes personalizing a mob with spells, health, color, all that kinda shit, i just wanna copy that 5 times, not spend an hour making more.
  • Private memo for players that is set by admins: Useful for linking ban request threads to players instead of having to hunt them down while they are online.
  • Sync the notes across all servers
  • Search button for game panel or something along those lines that makes it so the game panel doesn't search as you type and does so after (to help prevent game panel lag)
  • Allow admins to edit medical and security records with a tool

List can be edited later of updated.
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Post by Miauw » #20424

I guess carbon copy can be done, but it is very likely to cause loads of bugs for mobs.

Notes being synced across servers just sounds like they aren't in the database for some reason.
Memo could probably be added to the db too but im not a database guy so vOv

Search for game panel does need to be improved, I could probably look into that but I'm not entirely sure HOW it is handled.

Editting sec and med records could probably be done somewhat easily
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