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[RiiStar]

http://twcore.org/report/1

There's ur Bot list.
You can Also Register and put in your request for these ideas you have.

I cannot comment on how hard these features are to add,
and where time is concerned, but that's the best place for it to be.

[Noah]

This should also be improved by setting the squads in a "busy" status. As long as a squad is in a game bots will not pm the squad. Removing small distractions like these will only sharpen the competition.

If this gets made I'll become active for sure, Downfall is a genius.

[DankNuggets]

This has been requested many times over for a couple of years. I don't know why it has not been added but I do not think this thread will change the fact.

Really, just too much on the plate right now I would guess.

It's probably not that it's hard, or unwarranted, it's that there's other things that they're working on, and switching back and forth between bot projects probably isn't a good idea if you don't want a lot of little bugs.

There's probably a list somewhere out of our sight that has all the suggested botwork, website work, etc ordered in terms of importance and efficiency. New ideas could get put near the top if they're easy to implement and would have a big effect (this might be one actually), but most new ideas probably get put near the back, and never actually get worked on because of other projects.

At least there should be. (a list)


Sorry for the lecture on managing efficiently, but I think that's why these things never get done. It seems lately staff has become much more transparent with their planned upgrades and botwork.

[Peace_Maker]

This has been requested many times over for a couple of years. I don't know why it has not been added but I do not think this thread will change the fact.

[Spikester]

Hay guyz

Good idea, and i'm guessing it's not that hard to code either...?

[Zerzera]

This is so fucking easy, and doesn't even need any ifs and buts. It's just a list.

!add Disoblige:TWDD:5

And that will put you on the list for 5 minutes. After that you have to add yourself again. (Squads aren't really going to be sure what time their players will be on keyboard)

!list TWDD

These squads are looking for TWDD
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Disoblige 5
Dice 4

I don't even think you have to bother removing squads that get a match (Because they could well want to play more games etc.) because it's just a supporting tool.

[Money]

We could use a list. Since squads already !challenge squads when they are looking for a match, you could make a !list of "Squads that have looked for a game in the past 10 minutes" and remove those that have found a game. This goes around having to program a new command into the bot and may make it a bit easier.

It may also ease the !challenge spam that is often seen, making it so a squad really only needs to do a challenge once every five minutes.

this

Join ?chat=TWD and see who's on in there.

and that

[PaulOakenfold]

We could use a list. Since squads already !challenge squads when they are looking for a match, you could make a !list of "Squads that have looked for a game in the past 10 minutes" and remove those that have found a game. This goes around having to program a new command into the bot and may make it a bit easier.

It may also ease the !challenge spam that is often seen, making it so a squad really only needs to do a challenge once every five minutes.

[Tarriskat]

amazing idea, set this in stone asap, fuck twl this season lets get that working!

[Stompa]

downfall for sysop

[the_paul]

I like Downfall's idea

[Pressure]

OK, so no list, why not like, !advert game:7 or !advert game:8, and the bot does a #message to every squad on the TWD ladder for that division, and any squads interested in playing can now go TWD. It's almost like just saying :#squad:BD? but instead the bot can reach every potential opponent.

[Dameon Angell]

Join ?chat=TWD and see who's on in there.

[Valholy]

why are we not doing this already?!

[Reaver]

The only immediate problem I see is people putting themselves on the list and then going afk or logging off or whatever. An easy bypass would be: make the bot whisper the person that queue'd the squad every x amount of minutes and ask if they're still interested in playing, if no response within 20 seconds then it takes them off the queue.