Add delay to /r switching who to reply
Kakifrucht opened this issue · 11 comments
It happens pretty often that mid chat somebody sends you a message right before / when you send yours, leading it to the wrong recipient. It would be nice if /reply would have like a 5 seconds period between somebody messaging the player and making him the person to reply to, to prevent this.
I don't think a timed option would be ideal, unless it were to be one second tops, but I have another proposal. How about when you message a player that instantly becomes the recipient of your quick reply. No matter who messages you, in order for you to reply to them, you'll have to /msg your new recipient.
SupaHam: /msg Kakifrucht Hi
SupaHam -> Kakifrucht: Hi
Kakifrucht: /r Hi
"Invalid usage"...
Kakifrucht: /msg SupaHam Hi
Kakifrucht -> SupaHam: Hi
EvilOlaf: /msg Kakifrucht Hi
EvilOlaf -> Kakifrucht: Hi
Kakifrucht: /r Hi back to you!
Kakifrucht -> SupaHam: Hi back to you!
Well that would kinda defeat the fact that the command is called reply if you can only reply after having sent at least one direct message. I'm not sure whats the best take on this matter though.
I agree with @SupaHam that using time is not a good solution.
How about this:
SupaHam: /msg Kakifrucht Hi
SupaHam -> Kakifrucht: Hi
Kakifrucht: /r Hi
Kakifrucht -> SupaHam: Hi
EvilOlaf: /msg Kakifrucht Hi
EvilOlaf -> Kakifrucht: Hi
Kakifrucht: /r Hi back to you!
Kakifrucht -> SupaHam: Hi back to you!
The r stays at the first known user that messaged me. To solve this:
Kakifrucht: /msg EvilOlaf Hi back to you.
Kakifrucht -> EvilOlaf: Hi back to you!
This particular msg (could also be m,w,t,tell,wisp,whatever) will set a new last known user.
However, regardless the final solution in this case, this option should be disableable to restore the old behaviour as some may like that more.
Suggestion for improvement:
Using this one day and came across a small issue. I was messaged by a player, whom I wanted to answer with /r, but since /r was locked to my old conversation parter, who was offline by then, it showed me that I have nobody I can reply to. Would this be possible to check if the player it "locked" to is still online, and if not, get the next best (in that case, the last person messaging me)?
Can you make a new ticket for that @Kakifrucht