Advertising in chat

fair point. maybe a /advert command that stays until you log off or /cg or /cl yanno? i really like this input!

 

Many know that Drogo advertises this way and he agrees, it’s annoying. Drogo would rather the advertising wasn’t in chat but on a trade server there must be some way of to advertise goods. Not only for those selling but those buying.
It would be great if there was a /buy command such that players type /buy item_name and are presented with a list of the top 10 cheapest sellers of this item.

 

Thats actually a great idea, except that everything’s economy would go more expensive as cheap places get bought out quickly.

 

That’s a big ask for coding, I mean near impossible, you’re asking for a command that searches all islands to provide a printout of the cheapest chest shops found in the ever expanding world on an ever changing economy, just to stop someone saying “Visit my shop” every couple of minutes. Not to mention if the top 10 cheapest shops are sold out making it a useless system xD

Perhaps a new chat channel /ca or /chatadverts a global channel specifically for advertising.

 

I support this. I was thinking a custom gui screen that is activated by /advert. This Gui could contain adverts that the players can created themselves.

The adverts would be listed in order of most clicked. So that the popular shops are at the top. Ordering it this way will lessen people to complain about it being biased. As the players will decided which one advert is the most clicked.

The GUI itself could be in chest back ground with the player head showing as the icon, as you hover your mouse over that particular head it will show you the text of the advert.

Thoughts?

 

I do agree with this idea. It could be a similar GUI to the auction house GUI on the economy server.

 

I’m fairly sure when tradeshops were first added back to skyblock, there was a command that went with them which allowed you to view all stores on the server which was organised by player name - something like /shop.

Perhaps something like this could be brought back, but you could pay a set number of grass to be on the front page/ advertising area for a period of time.

 

all good ideas. I've got some experience in coding and I bet if we all wrote something up and proposed it to mods- we could make a simple change that doesn't really affect the gameplay but improves the quality of chat.

 

Get to work want to see this implemented

 

So It's possible you could make a little change to ads?

 

i think if we wrote up a theoretical code or process to assist this cause then we could get support from mods and test it out.

 

I just realised that the skyblock mod has a command that removes all adverts from chat. The only problem with this is that it just straight up deletes chats containing “shop” or “selling”. So if any player asks something like “Is anyone selling <item>?” It straight up gets deleted from the chat, which is kinda disappointing

 

I don't know if this is possible. but maybe you could open up the code and maybe edit yourself? May take a while but its possible.

 

"I don't know if this is possible."

The mod literally has this feature. What do you mean it isn't possible? The mod literally does it, I'm saying that the problem with the mod is that it clears the chats of people asking for a shop or something they need, meaning if you have a shop selling said item you won't see it.

"Maybe you could open up the code and edit it yourself?"

Why would I need to do this exactly? Nonetheless I don't know much java, I'd probably do jack to the mod itself, but in order to do that I'd need to decompile the mod, open it with an IDE (preferably Eclipse), fix things because of the way it was de/compiled, and do stuff to destroy my self esteem, release something that a single community will call me out for copying code and whatever else, and flaming me because my s*** doesn't work. Is it worth my time? No.

"May take a while but its possible"

This just contradicts your first statement. But:

Decompiling - takes about 4 seconds, though some of the classes may corrupt
Editing code - because of my skill, it'll take about 10 minutes to edit the shenanigans. More experienced coders will probably know their s*** better than I do and do it in roughly 3 minutes.
Recompiling - takes about 8 seconds.

Still, not worth my time. can't be bothered doing that, and sorry for writing a whole essay just because I can't comprehend why you'd ask that in the first place

 

Does the mod have a disabler for Skyblock ads?

 

Forgot to mention that it was /toggleshop. It, however, blocks a lot more than shop advertisements