How sending /tells *should* work.

Sending /tells to characters with surnames is obnoxious. I have the solution.

How Sending /tells should work

Many many moons ago, before the first stalwart crash test dummy's steeped foot onto the shores of la nocea. There was a Legend of being able to set a nickname for easy private communications between friends. How ever much like big foot, The loch ness monster and affordable and easy to obtain health care this method is still shrouded in the mists of lore and legend.

No one knows if it will come to pass or remain a old wives tale.

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Originally Posted by Griss

Many many moons ago, before the first stalwart crash test dummy's steeped foot onto the shores of la nocea. There was a Legend of being able to set a nickname for easy private communications between friends. How ever much like big foot, The loch ness monster and affordable and easy to obtain health care this method is still shrouded in the mists of lore and legend.

No one knows if it will come to pass or remain a old wives tale.

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The nickname idea is put to rest with auto-fill tells. If you see some dude running in the background and u want to tell him something, but can't quite figure out how he spells his retarded name just before he runs out of view, this system is the best.

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Originally Posted by mysterytaru

oh look. belgianrofl is trolling with this topic again.

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how is it trolling? I offered the best solution yet to SE's mistake of adding surnames.

I agree, very nice solution.

How it CURRENTLY works:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-B9HTAizrZc

lmao thats kinda interesting

The problem is the huge server side programming to do it, first an autofill system would need to be made, and all character names would need to be stored on the server currently they are only connected to your character, and in cutscenes it uses a variable when a NPC mentions your name.

This system would require alot of work by SE, also if you want to send a tell to the person that ran past you, you type for example de "crap thats all i remember" and it still wouldnt work for that.

How the tell system should work is /sea all de, find the name, hit enter, select "send tell"

Heya!

Actually, there are more ways to give a tell to someone.

• Just type /tell Belgian Rofl
• Receive a tell and type /tell Bel, press TAB and select Belgian Rofl
• Select a character, type /tell <t>
• Go to your friend list, select Belgian Rofl and select "Send a tell" or something

You can live with it, afterall.

Ah! And don't forget that with CTRL+R you can answer to the last one who sent you a tell, and by keeping pressing CTRL+R you scroll who has /tell you.
Also, CTRL+T starts a tell to the last one you /tell'd. Keeping pressing CTRL+T and you'll cycle the targets you have whispered.

See ya!

like guy above said. your auto trans dictionary keeps track of who you've sent tells to lol...

just type the first 3 letters of their name and hit tab :x

so... /t Bel<tab><enter> <message>

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Originally Posted by LateReg

like guy above said. your auto trans dictionary keeps track of who you've sent tells to lol...

just type the first 3 letters of their name and hit tab :x

so... /t Bel<tab><enter> <message>

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Mind who would wanna send a tell to belgian rofl? lol

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Originally Posted by LateReg

like guy above said. your auto trans dictionary keeps track of who you've sent tells to lol...

just type the first 3 letters of their name and hit tab :x

so... /t Bel<tab><enter> <message>

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Doesnt work every time there are atleast 2-3 people in my LS that no matter how many times we have sent each other tells they are not in my Auto translator dictionary.

Putting aside the publicly available and free options for things like auto-fill and auto-complete (Off the top of my head is LingPipe, Lucene and Sphinx though) there would be an issue if the server was made to handle lookup and autocomplete every time a client tries to send a tell using this feature.

BUT. There would be less strain if the client side app just tracked the people you whispered recently and do autocomplete on its end. Something like an auto-complete/name suggestion for people you have sent a tell previously would be an ideal candidate for the client side app to handle. All you would need to do is successfully send or receive a tell and then the next time you type /t na.... it will suggest /t name lastname

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Originally Posted by Renshi

• Just type /tell Belgian Rofl

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Why would anyone want to send Belgian a tell? Being the biggest troll is the special olympics gold medal of forum posting

Rydin, you shouldn't let the things BR says about FFXIV hurt your feelings. If he didn't say such things and stir up the hive, we wouldn't have a 1.18. FFXIV would be heading down the road toward Fail City. At least now it has somewhat of a chance, and for that you should be praising him.

What is actually ironic is that the whole database is here right in loadstone. For some reason the game just doesn't want to access it.

Kind of like driving while refusing to read the map. Works at odd times but doesn't work at the most important times.

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Originally Posted by Trocien

Rydin, you shouldn't let the things BR says about FFXIV hurt your feelings. If he didn't say such things and stir up the hive, we wouldn't have a 1.18. FFXIV would be heading down the road toward Fail City. At least now it has somewhat of a chance, and for that you should be praising him.

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I was making a joke.... No one on this forum could bother me. Its all fun... I did enjoy his (your?!?!?!) jail video... very entertaining

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Originally Posted by kukurumei

What is actually ironic is that the whole database is here right in loadstone. For some reason the game just doesn't want to access it.

Kind of like driving while refusing to read the map. Works at odd times but doesn't work at the most important times.

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Not only that but surely there are database calls being made all the time. I don't think it'd be such a big deal to implement such a thing.

You know, I would just register players in the Auto-Tranalation system who are (underlined those whose should be resetted after exiting the game:

• Around you Talking
  
• Shouting
• In the Friend List
• In the Linkshell

You don't need any other people to /tell afterall, and if you want to whisper to someone who never /tell'd you, then you simply send the player a tell, then it is registered in your CTRL+T list until you close the game.
Spares resources and loads of useless data. I like it! What about you?

if google can do this with millions of calls per minute, with an database a trillion times the size, this can easily be implemented.

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Originally Posted by Trocien

Rydin, you shouldn't let the things BR says about FFXIV hurt your feelings. If he didn't say such things and stir up the hive, we wouldn't have a 1.18. FFXIV would be heading down the road toward Fail City. At least now it has somewhat of a chance, and for that you should be praising him.

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ROFL!

Yep, guys. You heard it here first. You can thank BelgianRofl for the changes to the game. Give credit where credit is due. Mr. Rofl, we salute you for all your hard work on our behalf. Without you, none of this would ever have been possible.

Seriously. Biggest internet ego I've ever seen in my life. By the way, you aren't fooling anyone with your new name.

I'd be jealous too if Yoshi-P directly responded to several times and spoke about the guy I despised in interviews several times.

this needs to get out there.

This thread is full of laughter!