Server-wide /shouts

[Mirage]

It's good to hear that you are looking into this. It's understandable that server load would increase, but at the same time, i guess some types of server load could decrease as well, if people can be spread out over more areas and still see the shouts they want to see.

Then there is also the option of a separate type of regional shout where you are limited to shouting only once per X minutes. That could help with keeping server load down, and ensure that people pick their regional shouts carefully, and don't waste them on meaningless chatter.

[Sama]

I don't know about other servers, in Asura, half of those shouts are made from drunk players, why the rest of the people want to hear that and I have idea how the Dev Team can filter those garbage argument from all the shouts.

The JPs stayed in white gate mostly because of that.

[Airget]

You know how there was a KI you could receive that would give you a message to tell you when a ballista match was starting up? Would it be possible to potentially make "signboards" in the zones where people would normally gather. If a person is holding a certain KI, they will receive a message when a new post. Limit it to 1 post a person with maybe a 15-30 minute duration for the longevity of the message.

Possibly have it work in a strictly "keyword" sense with this like "seeking allies" "CoP" "Mission" "Red Mage" or "seeking allies" "Abyssea altepa" "Ardor stones".

I think the whole trick is trying to develop something where people from other zones don't miss out on the opportunity of a pickup group but at the same time make it so it doesn't stress out the server so much. Judging from the response of the Community Rep I would think that the above suggestion may be the proper way to create a system that would put the least amount of stress on the server.

Overall I can imagine how it would be with a "global shout" basically you have the base of the shout, then you have to send the data across all other zones. if you consider how much people spam the servers would prolly crash every 10 minutes from players just shouting nonsense across the global shout.

[SubDragon]

One of the things I thought of was instead of linking city regions together just link the zones where the abyssea npc's are. Now that we have that option of warping around from our home nations as this is the gathering places.
I also think you should put a time limit on players as to how often they use a global shout system to no quicker than 1 min or 3 or 5 or even 10. to 1. reduce server load and 2. reduce the number of stupid shouts.
I like the idea of a server LS that you join for shouts and turn off as you don't need.

Thats my take on the issue. I think this does need to be looked at to help alleviate people that overcrowd a zone and cause players zoning in to be disconnected.

[Illianna]

You know how there was a KI you could receive that would give you a message to tell you when a ballista match was starting up? Would it be possible to potentially make "signboards" in the zones where people would normally gather. If a person is holding a certain KI, they will receive a message when a new post. Limit it to 1 post a person with maybe a 15-30 minute duration for the longevity of the message.

Possibly have it work in a strictly "keyword" sense with this like "seeking allies" "CoP" "Mission" "Red Mage" or "seeking allies" "Abyssea altepa" "Ardor stones".

I think the whole trick is trying to develop something where people from other zones don't miss out on the opportunity of a pickup group but at the same time make it so it doesn't stress out the server so much. Judging from the response of the Community Rep I would think that the above suggestion may be the proper way to create a system that would put the least amount of stress on the server.

Overall I can imagine how it would be with a "global shout" basically you have the base of the shout, then you have to send the data across all other zones. if you consider how much people spam the servers would prolly crash every 10 minutes from players just shouting nonsense across the global shout.

This sounds an awful lot like a better /seacom system... one where you could search comments by keywords ^.^; Wouldn't it be a lot easier just to make the tools that already exist more user friendly rather than think up something completely new?

[Coldbrand]

Yeah I'm not really interested in hearing more /shouts. People only have incredibly stupid things to say typically on my server when shouting.

[Mirage]

Yeah I'm not really interested in hearing more /shouts. People only have incredibly stupid things to say typically on my server when shouting.

I imagine there would be separate chat filters for additional shout types. If not, you could always seek refuge in your MH :>

[Eagle7D8]

Are ps2 limitations solely based on the amount of Hard Drive space SE is allowed to use?

[bungiefan]

No, they're based on all the system limitations. RAM is in very short supply, and the processor of the system can only handle so much. Hard drive space isn't running as dry.

[Juilan]

Try to find a way to set it up like a linkshell, you can sign on to the linkshell to view server shouts, I see no difference there than a large ls with 64 people, other than the requirement of making /sh do two things... or make it so people just cant see the shouts XD