7Seas Fishing Forum

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.

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.

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