In Game Name: Kane_VoltaireWhat part of EcoCityCraft is this suggestion for: Network WideShort title for your suggestion: See staff onlineWhat are you suggesting: A simple /staff command for new and old players to see online staff in case they need help. Obviously staff using /vanish will not be shown.Why is this a good addition for EcoCityCraft?: Sometimes you have new players looking for staff to help them, instead of having that extra clutter in chat channels, a player would be able to type /staff and see staff members online who can assist them. Again, staff that are using /vanish would not be visible as to not interrupt any investigations they might be doing or whatever.Other information: It would be just like /list, but only display staff online. And not seeing /vanish-ed staff would prevent it being abused. Why? Not all players, especially new ones, know the staff colors and might get confused for example if there's no staff and see sponsors online in Tab. And again, no unnecessary chat clutter asking what staff is online.Plugin or custom addition: One suggestion per form: I Understand.
While I have nothing against this suggestion, why not just look at tab? Blue/red names are common among most servers as staff colors.
Pbr. To put it in perspective I'd like you to log into my fictitious server where I have my staff hierarchy set and plainly visible on tab, but it's not explained anywhere in game. If you said the people at the top of the list I would have to point out I don't organize the list. Just color code it. We could go on and on about what color is who, but the point is if you're new you don't know that. This suggestion may not be the answer, but it should be addressed.
/help staff does list the ranks with their respective colors. We could alias /staff to /help staff, I think that would do fine
In addition to the suggestion, would there be a way to automatically pm someone if they are in another server? Like if we pm EtherialSquid and he was in VMR while we were in main with the command /pm etherial, it would not work due to the different servers- we would need to write the full name to speak with him. Is there a way to still have communication even with just the partial name? I don't think new players know to write the full name of a person to communicate with them across different servers.
Unless the chat and server plugins/systems were changed in the past five months, it's currently impossible to enable a "feature" that would allow people to communicate cross-server using only a few letters of someone's username.
I want to remind that this is an "ease of life" recommendation to make things easier. You may prefer Tab, but some people prefer to see it in the chat and would be more confident in contacting staff if they know who they are. Adding such a command is pretty lightweight to the server and wouldn't hinder server performance in any way.
Also in regard of what people suggested of having a way to contact staff for help, same way you have user channels and general chat and local, perhaps a chat channel for help from staff? Like /ch help or /ch staff (if not already in use for staff chat)?
I personally think this is unnecessary, as you can just use tab. The staff members will be shown on top of the list so it’s easy to see if there are staff members online
I've made it so /staff will redirect to /help staff. This will no be live until next maintenance, which could very well be after Monday. Please be sure to first test /staff before telling new players about it. You won't be able to see all staff online any other way, without using tab, due to our networking.