Broadening Support for IG - IRC communication

[Kotenku]

I don't know if this is in place already, but I'm putting the idea out there:

Factions have always had "call buttons" in EfU, intended to facilitate people being able to easily reach members of a faction they need to speak to.

Same principle for Watch/Sharboneths and being notified when a citizen needs to make a report.

Can it be arranged so that people in the Sharboneth guard / factions with doorbells will be notified in their respective IRC channel (the same way as sendings and shouts are broadcast now) if somebody calls in a report?

Gawd, being as it's 4 AM I don't know how to phrase that any clearer.

example: Joe needs to report a crime on the south face of the ziggurat, so in addition to the IG message that Guards recieve, it is also broadcast to the Sharboneth Guard IRC channel.

[MexicanGunslinger]

but what excuse would they get from arising from their sleep? I mean you may call it other things but when I log my char is asleep

[Sternhund]

I think this is a great idea, if the DM who can do this is willing to do it.

[Ebok]

Mex, you dont have to log in. :P

And if this is possible, it would be kinda cool.

[Staring Death]

but what excuse would they get from arising from their sleep? I mean you may call it other things but when I log my char is asleep

They'd have the same reasons for adventurers to log in when a sending is made in IRC.

[Kotenku]

Not to mention that one of the biggest challenges I remember from playing a guardsman was not having any way of knowing if people needed a Guardsman online when there wasn't one.

Patrolling the streets idly, waiting for something to happen isn't fun. Granted there are other things to do, and I know the stance that'll be taken against my statement already, it's still a valid one.

[Underbard]

Think of it as a small town sheriff getting a call in the middle of the night to get his drunken brother-in -law out of jail.  He can sleep with his sending stone next to him.

[Anonymous Bosch]

Super awesome idea.
It's not like your character stops existing during the many hours you are (hopefully) not playing him.  I pretend he's studying or sleeping or eating or defecating or one of the thousand other humdrum activities I don't want to incorporate into game time.

[9lives]

This will probably cause more spam than experienced by the Sending to IRC addition, but is a fair idea.

[Talir]

If you can get Archipelago or another chan bot to send these messages into the Sharbonet/Stygian channel for their respective needs, I think that will help us being more available. During times when there's a lot of activity we don't know about, it'll give us a chance to react to your needs. That said, we aren't always able to come.

I like it.

[Cruzel]

As long as they can hook the 'Reports', I see no reason why  they couldn't make Archipelago send those messages to the respective faction channel.

[Talir]

Is this feasible, Snoteye?

[Disco]

I like it.

[Snoteye]

I like how this is naturally aimed at me.

Disclaimer: I had nothing to do with this interfacing in the first place, nor do I have access to any of the code. The rest of this post is educated conjecture.

A message and a channel name must be stored somewhere for this to work. The message, by necessity, is dynamic. That means we should also be able to store static messages and dynamic channel names. I imagine the biggest problem is teliing Archipelago which channels to reside in, not sending the message itself.

[Talir]

What can we do to help it and could you look into it, Snoteye?