[Suggestion] Offline Payments

Thread Title: Online users can send money to people who are offline.

Minecraft Name: TJanicki

Suggestion: I am suggesting a way for online users to send money to users who are offline. This would be a nice addition because I know the feeling when the person that you loaned money to is never on when you are. I think this would make a great new command:
'/opay <minecraft username> <amount>' The "o" would be for offline so that if you are trying to pay an online user you wouldn't accidentily pay the offline user.

Reason: The Reason that I am suggesting this is because I have seen many frustrated users that have loaned another person money in a different time zone. This means that the user that loaned the money gets frustrated and files a complaint. Then the user who recieved the loan gets banned, but yet the user has the money in their balance. This creates an unnessary ban and takes time away from the moderators' game moderation duties. This new way of paying would also help anyone who is in debt and just wants to get it done.

Other Information: Users who are the recipients of the offline payment will recieve the money at the end of all of the other log-on messages (server messages not to be confused with mail messages). I will leave it to the mods to decide what color is used. Users who are paying the offline user will be notified by a payment message just like you are paying an online user except the message will say $1000 has been sent to (Offline)AndrewKM

Link to this plugin: N/A- It would be a custom plugin

 

Some people are builders, which means that they can't pay trade signs. Also some people don't have multihome, which is needed to make an efficient payment by trade sign. This offline payment would make it just a command to pay back the user, making it much simpler.

 

The reason that you would need a different command would be if it was just a small amount and you wanted to shorten the username. Like if you were going to pay andrewkm $500, I would usually just do /pay andrew 500. It saves me time. Also, there are thousands of users that play. If you mistyped one letter or number the money could go to a different user. I think one simple "o" in the command would help more people than it can annoy them.

 

Yes, builders can use trade signs. They just can't make them.

 

Yeah thats what I was thinking, just with a bright color attached to it to make it stand out and so you know that you have recieved payment by the player.

 

I have solved most of these issues in my thread. The solution to recieving too many payments from trolls would just be to have only 1 payment message to add up all of the payments that that one user has sent you. For example, if I pay andrewkm $5 25 times, It would add up the payments and put out one message as andrew logged on that said that TJanicki paid you $125

 

I agree.

I don't think that this would cause much lag. It would have the same amount of lag if a troll decided to spam pay an online user. I guess it would cause a little more lag as the server added up all of the times the user has gotten paid. The solution to this would be lurkblader's suggestion. The problem with lurkblader's suggestion, though, is it takes away the convenience of just being able to pay an offline user whenever you wanted. Offline for longer periods of time shouldn't be a problem. Only the tiniest bit of memory would be used to store this info. Their payments that are recieved will also be removed every month if the user hasn't logged in to claim the money.