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N.ator · Post by **N.ator** » Sun Feb 04, 2007 4:49 am

when reading the news you see a person has died..most of the time alot of people are then wondering how much they lost exp or what there new exp is at..instead of goin to search player every time and looking up the name and then see what there exp is at..why not make it so in the news there name is a clickable link which then bring up to the normal page when you click on a trader....idk just a suggestion..i think it would be a cool feature...

Post by **Baalzamon** » Sun Feb 04, 2007 4:51 am

i'll let everyone else explain to you that his is a suggestion brought up many many times

N.ator · Post by **N.ator** » Sun Feb 04, 2007 4:56 am

ok so if this was a suggestion brought up many times then why is it always getting rejected!? it does not hurt the game at all its just an added feature

Post by **RCK** » Sun Feb 04, 2007 6:25 am

<points out the fact the community drove away the last coder for making "changes">

Short answer, no coder == no new features... EVER

Hate · Post by **Hate** » Sun Feb 04, 2007 1:52 pm

Poca wrote:ok so if this was a suggestion brought up many times then why is it always getting rejected!? it does not hurt the game at all its just an added feature

Someone stated that it would cause extra lag that is not needed.

Freon22 · Post by **Freon22** » Sun Feb 04, 2007 3:35 pm

At the time it was rejected by Spock. Because he felt that having to input two links per news idem would cause lags

N.ator · Post by **N.ator** » Sun Feb 04, 2007 7:41 pm

has anyone tested it for lags though? because you never know , it might not cause any lags at all!!

Post by **Siege** » Mon Feb 05, 2007 8:42 am

It might not..And I think this would be a great idea if it worked...but...who will code it ?

SnakeBite · Post by **SnakeBite** » Mon Feb 05, 2007 8:01 pm

Lots of players pushed for it. Also I seem to recal also some against it. They never seemed to have any valid reasons though... ??

Post by **B.O.B.** » Mon Feb 05, 2007 8:36 pm

Sterling wrote:It would cause VERY VERY minimal excess lag...if you're already showing the player name, how hard would it be to put <a href=\info?player_name=Izzanods> Izzanods </a> was killed by <<a href=\info?player_name=Sterling> Sterling </a> in sector #235.

I don't believe this would cause any more lag than looking at the news currently takes...if anything, it would be unmeasureable to the human reflexes/capacity.

Once again I will state that these simple no game mechanic things can easily be put into test by SOMEONE LIKE ME WHO DOES DATABASE STUFF FOR A LIVING.

Except all the links in the game never look like "info?player_name=Sterling"