29-03-2012, 10:46 AM
I'm not a dev but what you have asked for are do-able. I can only guess at reasons why they haven't added as of yet, what they're planning to add in future etc etc however I can explain a bit about how it would potentially work.
This is just off the top of my head, it probably is wrong but it's a reasonable guess (for me anyway).
Sending a message is quite simple, from what I can tell current message system works on a database with a structure of;
messageID - Unique Key for each message.
Date - When the message was recieved.
playerID - The player who recieves this message.
Message Title - The title of the message.
Message - The content of the message.
and the php backing it works by doing a quick loop of a SQL query, something like "SELECT * FROM tblMessages WHERE playerID = '$sessionID'" - which basically takes your character ID and shoots it off to the database asking for every message with your name on it before printing them out into the lovely table we have.
With the House member login times, again, viable, when I user logs in or when a new page is entered a quick update to the database is made, "UPDATE tblPlayers SET loginTime=Date WHERE playerID='$sessionID'" and then printed out into a nice table when you click the "members" button on your House links.
tl;dr/don't care;not programmer
Both are do-able, because I said so. I have my ideas as to why they've not been added thus far but I'm not going to speculate.
This is just off the top of my head, it probably is wrong but it's a reasonable guess (for me anyway).
Sending a message is quite simple, from what I can tell current message system works on a database with a structure of;
messageID - Unique Key for each message.
Date - When the message was recieved.
playerID - The player who recieves this message.
Message Title - The title of the message.
Message - The content of the message.
and the php backing it works by doing a quick loop of a SQL query, something like "SELECT * FROM tblMessages WHERE playerID = '$sessionID'" - which basically takes your character ID and shoots it off to the database asking for every message with your name on it before printing them out into the lovely table we have.
With the House member login times, again, viable, when I user logs in or when a new page is entered a quick update to the database is made, "UPDATE tblPlayers SET loginTime=Date WHERE playerID='$sessionID'" and then printed out into a nice table when you click the "members" button on your House links.
tl;dr/don't care;not programmer
Both are do-able, because I said so. I have my ideas as to why they've not been added thus far but I'm not going to speculate.
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Add the straw hat as a usable item. I feel naked without it!
Add back Nordic armour! I have nowhere warm to sleep now!
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