[Freeciv-Dev] Re: teamslite10

[Daniel Sjölie <deepone@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On 2002-10-25 18:25:18, Ilkka Lehtoranta wrote:
> On Fri, 25 Oct 2002, Per I. Mathisen wrote:
> 
> > On Fri, 25 Oct 2002, Thomas Strub wrote:
> > > > - Team chat added. Prefix your messages with '|' to send to team mates.
> > >
> > > I don't know where the | is on the us-keyboard but "ALT GR + <" on
> > > german keyboard isn't that easy to press. I like the feature. Its
> > > working really good. But i don't like to break my fingers to do
> > > Team-Chat.
> >
> > I don't have a US keyboard, either, but on mine that key is readily
> > available, and I thought it was generally, since it is the Quake console
> > key :)
> >
> > What prefix would be good, then? '/' and ':' taken, how about '!'?
> 
> Why not implement IRC stylish commands?
> 
> I.e.
> 
> /msg peter hi!   <-- private message
> /team lets rock! <-- team message

Interesting idea...
How about simply implementing a "msg" command in the server?
The syntax could be something like "msg target message..." where target is
either the name of a player or a special keyword such as "team" or "all"..
The client could add "/msg all" to the beginning of lines without a "/"
and if desired other prefixes or shortcuts could also be interpreted as
the client wishes...

I think it would be a nice bonus to be able to send messages to players
from the server - there isn't reall such a command right now, is there?

> I've seen many beginners having problems with Freeciv chat (beginners
> never read docs either..). Normally people expect "peter: hi!" going to be
> public.

/Daniel

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