Before: It's going to be kinda confusing when a new player goes to setup their jobs and they see this: http://i.imgur.com/miK9Isk.png
Specifically "unavailable occupations are in red" and then a list of days till they can play that role but also RED [NEVER] which to a new player migth cause confusion thinking
they can never play that role.
After: Remove the red and add a strikethrough ( http://i.imgur.com/BQ90xr6.png ) to show "these jobs are unavailable" while making the other jobs look, well more available.
Before: When a client is created it's player_age variable is set to "Requires Database", then a select query is ran against the database to see if they have been seen before if they have logged in before this will have a row for them and it will set player age. However if there is no row for them it doesn't change player_age from default.
After: Before we check for an entry in the database we set their player_age to zero, we already checked we have a database connection so we know we will be able to pull this information and if we can't then it means they are a new player. Set their player_age to zero and be done with it.
What this does: Brand new players will no longer be able to bypass the jobs minimal age limit.
Adds a config option MENTORS which sets the variable config.mods_are_mentors
Adds a rights level of R_MENTOR which gets msay, private message, aghost, notes, and a new proc for checking for new players (requires database support).
If the confic option for mentors is set then
the ckeys listed in moderators.txt file will instead be set as mentors, you can still make moderators by adding them in admins.txt
staffwho will show Mentors instead of Moderators as the heading above the listing of non-admins.
Also: Players now get a message gently reminding them to click the name of the staff member to reply instead of ahelping over and over.
* NanoUI now finds and sends it's assets to the client (css, images, javascript and templates).
Part of my effort to make creating NanoUIs as simple as possible. This removes the need to add new NanoUI assets (such as templates) to the client send_resources proc.
Creates NanoUI for the PDA and Syndicate Uplink.
New features:
Crew manifest now sorted with department heads at the top.
Can select individual conversations and delete individual conversations among PDA's
Powernet Monitor much more simple now and easier to read.
Janitorial supplies locator now includes Janicart.
Items will actually refresh if you click "Refresh"
Some other changes:
Captain's PDA cartridge now has all access (added janitor access and quartermaster access)
With the conversation change I had to change how tnote (the variable that holds PDA messages works.
Setup the message server to use the new methods.
Removed procs that will no longer be used (UI generation procs from old UI methods)
Commented everything the best I can.
Created HORRIBLE, TERRIBLE lists. But it's pretty much required because that's how nanoUI rolls.
Created a variable on the uplink called NanoUI items, this list is created upon creation of the
uplink.
I included the functionality for Mimes and Clowns for our downstream servers that have those.
