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Announce News Post #2625

Custom Prompt update

Written by: Razmael, the Synthesist
Date: Friday, January 20th, 2017
Addressed to: Everyone


I've just rewritten our custom prompt code from scratch, and it is now live in the game. With any luck, your custom prompts should have converted to the new system without error. But if not, let me know and I'll see what I can do.

This improves both the speed of the custom prompt (it's about 10x faster now) to help combat lag in situations where there's a lot of prompts flying about (e.g. group combat, large events), as well as making it easier on our end to add new tokens.

You can now also CONFIG PROMPT CUSTOM <ON|OFF> to turn it on or off as you need, without losing your stored custom prompt.

And speaking of adding new tokens, I added some with my rewrite you might like:
@weekday Shows the game's weekday (Tisday, Gosday etc)
@secbal Shows if you have secondary balance or not (e.g. Fury balance, Hound balance)

@irlweekday Shows the IRL weekday (Monday, etc)
@irlday Shows the IRL date of the month (1-31)
@irlmonth Shows the IRL month (January, February, etc)
@irlyear Shows the IRL year (2017, 2018, etc)
@hour24 Shows the IRL hour in 24 hour format (03, 13, 15, etc)
@hour12 Shows the IRL hour in 12 hour format (1-12)
@ampm Shows if it's 'am' or 'pm'.
@minute Shows the IRL minute (00-59)
@second Shows the IRL second (00-59)
@milli Shows the IRL millisecond (000-999)

These IRL time based tokens will refer to your CONFIG TIMEZONE setting when calculating the current hour or day, so be sure to set that!

Enjoy!

Penned by my hand on Tisday, the 13th of Niuran, in the year 463 MA.


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