Offline messages

[DarkHender]

There has been many times where people break rules and then quickly log out before you can tell warn or let them know something important (such as a final warning).

That player might not come back on for days and you've forgotten the player name by then.
Then I got to thinking... ( oh no darkhender is thinking! )

What if we had a way to "message" an offline player with a warning or an important message that they would see as soon as they logged in.
And if they needed to they could do something like /messages to be reminded.

 

[Ansoro2112]

Sounds like a great idea to me. <3

 

[Mccuish]

interesting idea

 

[JohnOgozalek]

Intriguing idea, but is it possible? I honestly know nothing about this sort of thing...sooooo0 WinX64

 

[Sploorky]

There's actually a command that would be able to do this. /send and /inbox. An op /sends a message to a player, and a player opens it with /inbox. I checked and inbox is set to nobody though.

Not a bad idea at all. I like.

 

[Suikae]

I like it, this doesn't happen just with Zombie, it happens to most likely all the servers. This idea would really come in handy when needed!

 

[DarkHender]

Well, I wasn't sure if this was possible either, but I know WinX could probably figure something out if it was added.
I do know I've seen this command on other server's, premium ones for sure but I wasn't sure if it was possible for classic ( thank you sploorky for reassuring me! ).

 

[hihihilolHI]

It sounds a lot like this http://blocktopia.net/forum/threads/command-suggestion-leavemsg.9765/
But yeah, it is a useful idea. I like it.

 

[Dess]

Seems great, would be a helpful thing when it comes to people that just freak out and logout.

 

[Dio4344]

so kinda like a message, so when they come back you can type /messages

 

[DarkHender]

Yeah Dio4344 sorta like a email/pm/private message on the server. Like your own mail system and reminders!

 

[ethical1337]

I like the idea too. We shall see what we can do. If only I could actually program stuffs yet.

 

[Chillingworth]

Well, there's actually a command on the server called /inbox, as Sploorky said. However, it's currently disabled. I'd imagine you'd have to /send [message] to the said person, and they'd get it the next time they log in. All we have to do is enable the commands.

 

[MacTarvish]

Now wait, when an operator sends a player a message. Is the player alerted upon entry that they have an unread message waiting for them on /inbox. Or does the message appear before them as they enter?

 

[Sploorky]

It says something like "You have a new message" when you log on but doesn't say how to access it.

What would be nice is something like
"You have a new message, check your /inbox and open your message with /inbox #." If they don't do that, post it again every few minutes.

 

[DarkHender]

If they have one or more messages would the number of the messages show up when you do /inbox ? And then to open open a message you'd do /inbox (#)?

 

[Sploorky]

If they have one or more messages would the number of the messages show up when you do /inbox ? And then to open open a message you'd do /inbox (#)?

Yep! At least for lava, and I assume it would be exactly the same x)

 

[mariosatr]

This would be a great idea, but WinX might have his hands full already, so it might have to wait some time (ignore me if I'm wrong and WinX doesn't have his hands full).

EDIT: If /send and /inbox are in the server and work, that would fix the devving problem I guess.