I would really like a DEV to give us a quick update on this.

[ErikMynhier]

A while back, and I cannot quote where because its a while back there, a DEV mentioned we would be getting a dice roll/random number emote soon, most likely before the expansion. I was just wondering if we are still on track for that. As I'm on an RP server, this would be a real cool thing for us, as when we RP a fight we usually have to use rollz or something, and a quick and easy roll emote would be amazing.

[Tiggy]

Wasn't this mentioned between the 2.38-2.4 period? Gotta give it a little more time.

[Adrian74]

And you're right. While I can't quote it neither I clearly remember not much time ago, perhaps in 2.2 about the removal of a certain useful random command that they'd implement back...

I'm also interested in this, as a lover of the randomness and also as a roleplayer, even if my server is not so much into it, I'm the one who decides to give my character its own personality, different than mine, and having some nice random or dice utility is highly appreciated. I hope they'll read this, or at least that this topic won't fall in oblivion.

[zar]

Here come the casinos

[JayCommon]

[LineageRazor]

Here come the casinos

Ugh, when the random number thing was talked about, I thought, "great idea!"

I totally forgot about the casinos players created using it in FFXI. So annoying to see /shouts for, "HUBERT"S AWESOME CASINO, 5K MINIMUM 500K MAXIMUM! 1-10: x4 RETURN, 11-30 x2 RETURN! /TELL AND PLACE YOUR BETS!!!" over and over and over and over and over...

Even gilseller /shouts were less common and less annoying...

Suddenly, I'm not so keen on the whole random number thing. >_<

[Grekumah]

As we have previously posted, the /random function was scheduled for implementation sometime after Patch 2.5. The dev. team let us know that they're working to have this implemented at the release of Patch 2.5.

[Adrian74]

And a quick update it was. Thanks for replying!

Good to know we are going to count with a function like that. It would be cool if we could also choose the faces of the dice. (Example, 1d10, 1d20, 1d100...)

[Vorpal_Spork]

Wasn't this mentioned between the 2.38-2.4 period? Gotta give it a little more time.

Any half competent coder could implement this in minutes. All you're doing is calling math.random() or whatever the equivalent is in FFXIV's language and outputting the result to chat after some slight modifications. I'm incompetent in 4 languages and even I could do this quickly.

[Dotsusama]

Any half competent coder could implement this in minutes. All you're doing is calling math.random() or whatever the equivalent is in FFXIV's language and outputting the result to chat after some slight modifications. I'm incompetent in 4 languages and even I could do this quickly.

It's too bad that S-E doesn't have you on their payroll!