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Ping command needed!

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Cedar
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Ping command needed!

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We've all been there. You're in the middle of some interesting group discussion when suddenly there's a pause in dialogue. You wonder as the controller, "Hmm Maybe they're just typing something incredibly in-detail", and so you wait it out. But nothing shows up in the chatbox, and it's been a good 4 minutes, and that character has something to say about everything. So you evoke an art--Sense Dreamers, Judgment--to see if you've still got connection. Choose your adventure:

a) Your judgment goes off correctly, and your character learns that that 8th sphere MT ruler of another house is now deeply offended. But hey! You as the controller were just trying to figure out if you'd been ghosted on the server!

b) Your sense dreamers seems to be taking an abnormal amount of time, to the extent it never finishes evoking. So you try relogging, only to find you cant enter the Teaching Guild for about another fifteen minutes! Ghosted!

Tl,dr: it'd be pretty helpful if there was a hotkeyed system command that could do a simple server ping, just so us controllers can know if we're storming out. While evoking some arts kinda do the same thing, it does have a visible component with the evoke cone, which may be considered rude in-character.
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Re: Ping command needed!

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Good idea - I'll add it. Technically your client already sends regular pings to the server, you just don't see the response. We can change that.
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Re: Ping command needed!

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Looking. May not get to this for 3.1.7 but it's been added as a ticket.
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Re: Ping command needed!

Post by Tary »

Done - will be in patch, pending testing
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Ping command needed

Post by IrishkaBem »

who would see the ping? only the nuker and his teammates or everybody? if it were only the nuker and his team it would be quite useful.
Cedar
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Re: Ping command needed!

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Currently, only you see it. It's just a way for making sure you're still connected to the server, and not storming out. I'm not sure what you mean by that lingo though
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Re: Ping command needed!

Post by Arnaya »

Pinging has apparently been used as a means of Cyber attack on occasion... so I assume that's where the "Nuker" part came from. No clue about the rest though lol
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