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Space Guy:
A way to display help with things via RTB would be more useful. That way, simple things like when to use the Fill Can (if a player is detected as trying to paint lots of similarly coloured bricks at once) could be displayed once or twice by a tip popup rather than in every server you visit. For instance, this mod comes up with "It would seem you've stumbled upon a Swiss Army Gun!" the first time you use it in every single server. A short help tip when you first do could be monitored client-side by RTB and then not displayed again to prevent it coming annoying.
Bushido:
holy stuff that would be useful
explain horrifyingly complex guns without having to EXPLAIN horrifyingly complex guns!
you should actually make it triggerable by scripts, too: for instance if you just joined a very complex new deathmatch server, infomaniac could tell you the ins and outs before bullets are going in and out of you
Space Guy:
That's what I mean. Specific mods could detect you being in a situation where a tip might be useful (being near a downed teammate in Zombies, painting a huge wall) and then displaying a short help thing.
--- Quote from: Bushido on November 20, 2009, 12:19:20 PM ---explain horrifyingly complex guns without having to EXPLAIN horrifyingly complex guns!
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... although weapons and stuff should probably be made better to be 'pick up and use' without too complicated things other than "jet to scope this gun", "hold down to charge".
Deathwishez:
Can we also pick our favorite servers? I get tired of going through hundreds of servers to find the ones I like.
Also, can you throw in a 'Karma' system, to where we may rate players if we like them and what-not?
Lastly, the in-game informaniac sounds helpful. I'd have to where we could toggle of tips for certain things, and informaniac in general. For things like CityRP (Eww!) information can say things like, "Having you considered getting a better job? Type '^help jobs' to see the job list."
Chrono:
-Favorite servers should be a seperate mod.
-Karma system is rather a bad idea. Someone who is fair and and respected could be voted down by several kids with 'turettes' simply because they won't give out a mod that doesn't need to be given out.
-Agreed.