Chat Room Maps

This is my to-do list for the January release, I’m planning many updates to the online chat room maps. If you have ideas or suggestions on how to improve that system, please post them here.

- New player MapData server transaction. The player map position could be uploaded on its own packet for lighter traffic and faster refreshes of other characters.

- Whispers: Add a whisper toggle button somewhere to allow whispering to a character that’s in a tile next to you.

- Walls must block vision: Make it so players cannot see the tiles hidden behind walls, maybe create some kind of line-of-sight function and don’t draw tiles that are not in the line-of-sight.

- Leashes: If a character is leashed, she would still be able to move on the map but could not go beyond two tiles away from the leash holder. When the leash holder moves, that player would be forced to follow her if she’s farther than two tiles away.

- Lots of new tiles and objects in grouped in themes for: Regular House, Medieval/Fantasy, College, Asylum, Night Club, etc.

Doors, Locked Doors, One-way Gates, Windows & Tunnels: These new tiles objects could be inserted into walls and would block entry based on the player condition.

- Doors: These could only be entered if the character can interact with others.

- Locked Doors: Same as regular door, but only room admins could enter them.

- One-way Gates: Can only be entered from one direction (Up, Down, Left or Right)

- Windows: Could only be entered if the player isn’t kneeling, hogtied or on all fours.

- Tunnels: Could only be entered if the player is kneeling, hogtied or on all fours.

New preference parameter to force leaving a map at the entry point. Players would be able to check a box in their parameters to force them to leave the room if they are close enough to the entry point, maybe a three tiles range. For map only chat rooms. Hardcore and Extreme players could be forced to have this one checked. EDIT: A merge request from Kalina is already in the pipeline for that one so it will be a team project.

Allow room admins to scroll the map when in edit mode, so they don’t have to walk with their character to edit it. Give infinite sight range in that case.

Better compatibility for mobile users. Test the map feature on many types of mobile devices to make sure the UI works and is convenient.