Questions about Server Announcements

[tagban]

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.

[whasf]

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

[bluekirby0]

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

[tagban]

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.

[kjLotus]

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)

[tagban]

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

[kjLotus]

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

[tagban]

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