12-29-2022, 03:18 AM
There is an issue with this and I think it's not the right solution for the problem presented, although it's still a useful functionality.
How I mainly see it being used is that it would be turned on when you go afk intentionally and want to be notified if someone does walk up rp. But often, you would not remember to do it or you would just get distracted and tab out or something. Then the biggest issue arises where someone comes up to an afk person and makes a post, and they have no idea if their post pinged them or not. So they end up just trade pinging them anyway.
In the other scenario where you want to tab out during rp, I think it's ok since it lets you minimize the window and do something else. I often have another window open which I overlap over sl2 to still see the chat. But it would be cool to have this option.
Importantly, I would really like to see the option for desktop notifications, but I doubt that's possible with BYOND.
Alternatively, a simple "ping" option instead of using trade ping would be nice.
How I mainly see it being used is that it would be turned on when you go afk intentionally and want to be notified if someone does walk up rp. But often, you would not remember to do it or you would just get distracted and tab out or something. Then the biggest issue arises where someone comes up to an afk person and makes a post, and they have no idea if their post pinged them or not. So they end up just trade pinging them anyway.
In the other scenario where you want to tab out during rp, I think it's ok since it lets you minimize the window and do something else. I often have another window open which I overlap over sl2 to still see the chat. But it would be cool to have this option.
Importantly, I would really like to see the option for desktop notifications, but I doubt that's possible with BYOND.
Alternatively, a simple "ping" option instead of using trade ping would be nice.