Deprecated Darkstar fourms

Is it possible to flag a server announcement for when someone logs in? I have a server of like 8 people and it'd be nice to know when someone logs in.

You could write a program to watch the accounts_sessions table and notify you that way, or write something to watch the logfile

It would also be fairly trivial to rig a chat packet into the login sequence, but that would be your burden to maintain.

Like, when the charactor zones into their first zone, to have it say something like (forgive me because I know VB and NOT C++ so my "pseudocode" is mainly based on that aspect..)

OnEvent CharactorLogin do
- add to active charactor list in search server
- make them dance like a chicken for 30 seconds
- announce to server & CharName & " has entered the realm.."

I just don't know how the announce command works, or what it is/where to find it. Im pretty sure I could make that work though with the right info as to where it is in the code.

--Edit
I was actually kind of surprised that GMs don't have a command to make general server announcements.

tagban wrote: I was actually kind of surprised that GMs don't have a command to make general server announcements.

they do, it's just prepending a chat message with a hashtag. it's why every time i try to "#YOLO" on DS Test it makes a server message

(now that you know that, you should be able to find how to make server wide messages :p)

Thanks! Found it and added to my project. Now my friends will know when others are on.

tagban wrote:Thanks! Found it and added to my project. Now my friends will know when others are on.

isn't that what linkshells are for? o.O

I had asked a long time ago, but I wanted to auto-give a linkshell to each person that logged in, and could never figure it out. So meh