Sugg. / Request for OpenRod feature

[Atashi Toshihiko]

I've been working on some custom fishing rods/devices that utilize the four responses that the invisible rods send on chat (and the linkmessage channel, for one custom application) but I was thinking, it would be great if there was also a message that we could capture, for levelling-up.

Maybe format it like the rarity message, i.e. "level n" where n is the level number the avatar has just attained. That would allow some custom reactions (animations etc) to be performed on levelling. It's doable now by setting a listener on channel 0 locked onto the avatar's rod then parsing the strings for the levelup statement, but it'd be easier and faster to keep everything on the same special chat channel / linkmessage channel, and the same format.

Anyhow, just a suggestion for future version.

Cheers!

-Atashi

p.s. if this were implemented, then it would be nice if the 'quiet' catch mode also suppressed the normal level-up announcement.

[Seven Shikami]

Possible, but it'd have to wait for Rod 3.3 or whatever future revision we do. And since we have WEEKS of growing pains every time we release a new fishing rod (diehards upgrade smooth and fast but half our userbase does not) we'd need to gather a lot of new features and bugfixes together to justify doing another version, and even then it'd have to come pretty far down the line to avoid version spam.

[Atashi Toshihiko]

Thanks for the response Seven - I fully understand the issues of timing and version spam. As I said, it's possible to grab the info now, and I'll just keep my eyes open for this and other features that might come along down the road.

Cheers!

-Atashi