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Does every house have a shabby lobby door? That is a must, if not, think of all the time...Hey JB - I know you get bored and are always looking to add more things to your already super Resource, so I thought I'd throw this out there.
Like most people - I have a guild full of bots with multiple housing estates full of Items - both trash and treasure!
If the Database knew about these trash and treasure repositories then it could do a search and go get the treasure to use? Not really much different to Navigating to the Bank In principle.
So the problems would really only be getting a complete /Find list of every item from every person, concatenating them together and adding them to the SQL Database, and maybe a way to update this on a periodic basis.
That sounds easy doesnt it?
Oh then we would need nav spots for each of the Housing plots - 101 Terminus Way and all that mumbo jumbo - just so you could nav to them to fetch that treasure!
Of course they might surprise us and the new feature they are giving us in NOS might actually give us the central repository we all need, and hopefully we wont need 400 Houses to hold our shite.
Anyway...food for thought
PS Troll Shaped Cookies > Fish Rolls
Searching ain't hard as it is already built into the 'Find Item' window..
It would require an ersatz array from the requesting toon..
example local string = "123,1,1122,4,1443,5" - the item id and the count needed and send that string via dannet. However that is done, I think I did it, or dreamt about it, this is when I was first making ToonShop a long time ago.
You cannot send arrays via dannet unless something has changed that I am unaware of.
You would have to iterate over the list and if it has anything make an array locally on that toon and add to the list and grab the stuff and then deliver
OR
It would require a dynamic list, but how would they all create that one list.. and where would it reside...
once again would still have to ask all toons one by one what they have in some sort of string and as the toon gets responses back to speed it up rather than ask if they have each item in a dannet for loop
create a master list of who has what and who has the extra 1 of whatever
Once it has a list of who has what and who has that extra what, then it can start a request process and wait for every toon to go to every plot and grab everything and bring it back..
OR
Some magic where they can all dump their Plot inventories to disk and then copy them to MQ2FTP (which I don't see as a plugin RN) server
The requesting toon can get all the data from each file
alternatively
I dunno the string char limit for Lua but that is another "magical" way.
moving right along.. The list quantities are determined and assigned to each toon and then the string or whatever is sent back to each toon one by one to go get stuff and bring it back
The toon would have to hang out in the guild lobby most likely but maybe not an absolute but for time sake..
Basically I am openly hinting at some place to put files to work with that may come from other toons on other pcs. If every toon ran on a single pc. oh ya , easy street!
Most of the people always gripe about time, so I will let you know this will add lots of time... current state you could be sitting around for.. awhile waiting for the magic
Multi-plot shopping I am only imagining would be a nightmare.. and a time sink..
If I can get a single file, it would be beneficial, otherwise, I would have to say I need these items to each toon, wait for each toon to tell me what they got , then make a list and then break it down for each toon to give back..
It is shorter to say what I need rather then tell me you everything you got...
Anyways before anyone else has any bright ideas
These are already on the road map and most have been there since the beginning:
Bazaar Shopping with plat limits and parcel delivery - Ballers only
Sell facility for vendor items, crafted items, etc...
Plot Shopping - yeah I already had the idea...
Drone DND crafting , tell the other toons to do your bidding, someone go make royal mints, you over there, make picnic baskets, and you make frosting..
Tradeskill Depot , since I found out about it..
Assembly line dronage...
Forage/Fish facility
Farm facility most likely using pocketfarm or maybe the plugin
This list is not exhaustive nor coherent.
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