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#1
25 Aug 2006 12:55
 
 

Argh, I'm getting frustrated on searching for people with certain
services (nothing kinky) through wanted and random fingering. Could
you please please add a feature where you could either search peoples'
plans for like 'reagents' 'mage' 'conjurer' 'chests', or give people
a new variable to set: keywords. You could put some search engine-style
keywords like 'tank' 'barbarian' or 'merchant' 'chests' 'mip', and when
people need services, they could just "who keywords merchant mip", and
they would see everybody (like everybody who has logged in within the
last few days, on/offline) who has those keywords mentioned. There are
so many players in bat nowadays, that your requests are easily lost
in the stream.
For example. I'm looking for a chest and a bunch of reagents. I could
just keep on shouting at wanted for them, and try 'who guild merchant'
and finger them all through and hope that somebody doesn't have
"NO MERCHANT SERVICES" in their plan.
OR, I could just use the keyword search. If the person is not online,
I could drop an offline tell/mail stating that these services are needed.
This could also be used to a dozen different things, let me count the ways...

Thanks,

~/A

 
 
 
Acidia
102d, 3h, 55m, 56s old
Level:
85
 
 
#2
25 Aug 2006 15:44
 
 
help classify

The offline thingie is most likely not going to happen, and given
the popularity of classify, I'm not quite sure on the plan-search
either. (Yes, I know they're not directly the same, but the need
cases are quite similar).

-Era of the idling

 
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Era
C o d e s l a v e
6y, 129d, 7h, 30m, 58s old
Level:
25 [Wizard]
 
 
#3
26 Aug 2006 14:55
 
 
Acidia wrote:
Argh, I'm getting frustrated on searching for people with certain
services (nothing kinky) through wanted and random fingering. Could
you please please add a feature where you could either search peoples'
plans for like 'reagents' 'mage' 'conjurer' 'chests', or give people
a new variable to set: keywords. You could put some search engine-style
keywords like 'tank' 'barbarian' or 'merchant' 'chests' 'mip', and when
people need services, they could just "who keywords merchant mip", and
they would see everybody (like everybody who has logged in within the
last few days, on/offline) who has those keywords mentioned. There are
so many players in bat nowadays, that your requests are easily lost
in the stream.
For example. I'm looking for a chest and a bunch of reagents. I could
just keep on shouting at wanted for them, and try 'who guild merchant'
and finger them all through and hope that somebody doesn't have
"NO MERCHANT SERVICES" in their plan.
OR, I could just use the keyword search. If the person is not online,
I could drop an offline tell/mail stating that these services are needed.
This could also be used to a dozen different things, let me count the ways...

Thanks,

~/A
Yeah, people whined, bitched, moaned for that feature few years ago, and some
wiz even coded it, but nobody uses it...check "help classify" and "help who"
(particularly "who class" or "who class merchant".

 
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Ooga
N e w b i e  H e l p e r
2y, 179d, 8h, 39m, 26s old
Level:
61
 
 
#4
26 Aug 2006 14:55
 
 
Quote:
Yeah, people whined, bitched, moaned for that feature few years ago, and some
wiz even coded it, but nobody uses it...check \"help classify\" and \"help who\"
(particularly \"who class\" or \"who class merchant\".
Some nifty wiz could add the \"help classify\" to linked help files like help
who, help plan, help url & help phone. Hard to use such fine idea if nothing
points at it. Would nice too if you would be promted after a reinc to classify
yourself.
Classes like stunner, haboer, offtank & deftank are missing plus some nice
class names for conjus that have small/minor prots and for conjus that also
have major prots (small_conju, full_conju, sconju, fconju, conju, CONJU...).

A :-D hits you.

 
 
 
Blacksmith
170d, 4h, 22m, 25s old
Level:
78
 
 
#5
01 Sep 2006 01:07
 
 
Acidia wrote:
Argh, I'm getting frustrated on searching for people with certain
services (nothing kinky) through wanted and random fingering. Could
you please please add a feature where you could either search peoples'
plans for like 'reagents' 'mage' 'conjurer' 'chests', or give people
a new variable to set: keywords. You could put some search engine-style
keywords like 'tank' 'barbarian' or 'merchant' 'chests' 'mip', and when
people need services, they could just "who keywords merchant mip", and
they would see everybody (like everybody who has logged in within the
last few days, on/offline) who has those keywords mentioned. There are
so many players in bat nowadays, that your requests are easily lost
in the stream.
For example. I'm looking for a chest and a bunch of reagents. I could
just keep on shouting at wanted for them, and try 'who guild merchant'
and finger them all through and hope that somebody doesn't have
"NO MERCHANT SERVICES" in their plan.
OR, I could just use the keyword search. If the person is not online,
I could drop an offline tell/mail stating that these services are needed.
This could also be used to a dozen different things, let me count the ways...

Thanks,

~/A
help class (some of your services are in game and used only by 2 people)

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Nazrix
189d, 5h, 46m, 29s old
Level:
97