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Rant mode: Enabled
What I don't understand is, WHY DO PEOPLE DO CRAZY ROLEPLAYS????!! It aggervates me! I hate it when I join a server and these kids are saying stuff like "Mama, feed me", and then the "mama" says stuff like: /me puts soandso in her crib. These kids are acting like newborn babies, but they talk! *sigh* A little roleplaying is ok, but I've been to server where every time I join, it's the same people doing the same old tiring stuff. This always gets me mad and I say "You're not a baby! Grow up!" And then they call me all kinds of dirty names for daring to say that. >:( I won't say which server(s) or who because I don't like calling out players behind their backs, but if you're reading this, you know who you are.

Rant mode: Disabled
I want to make it a rule on my servers that you can't roleplay too much.

Make consensus )
Put roleplay in setting branch )

-"Are you want a family roleplay with ?"
-"No problem till now we are dwarfs with language, folklore, law and rights."
-"You may to dig or not to dig exactly as Thorin say !"
-"You. you and you take yours heard and go. South Mine want you !"
-"A little dwarfs go craft for honor of Gods"
-"And do it QUAET !!!"

BBmine, the problem is rather that every chatmessage is treated of equal importance.
Since CSM is added, l think l could make a mod which
· highlights a message if you are mentioned in it,
· every player gets a different colour (near to white),
· you can give players different chat priorities:
stark-hide: completely ignore every message emanating from the player
hide: if you are mentioned, mark it as usual, else print the message black in terminal
dark-grey: print it dark-grey in terminal and chat (except mentions)
grey: like dark-grey but brighter
default: like dark-grey but the player's colour
important: show every message as if you were mentioned
nil: remove the player from the list of specified priorities
· You can also change which priority is given when not explicitly specified.
· Of course, tab autocompletion is available that you don't have to type so much (l need to make https://github.com/minetest/minetest/pull/4437 client side)
· When printing to terminal, ESCs in the string are removed to avoid … you can try it with $ echo -e "\033P"

You will need to wait for someone to add a way to get the name of the local player or ask the user to enter it. Checking which player sent a chat message is kinda messy right now, due to the way minetest sends the chat to the client.

red-001, l opened an issue about it: https://github.com/minetest/minetest/issues/5454

BBmine, here's my chatfocus mod: https://github.com/HybridDog/chatfocus
Note that it doesn't work correctly yet, see previous posts.

Why don't you ignore them? I mean, do not pay attention, those kids aren't even from your family, why to care about what they do? Well, always that they don't insult you or include you in their children-ish games, why to care then?

People decide to roleplay because they have nothing better to do...LOL

Cpt_mcg wrote:People decide to roleplay because they have nothing better to do...LOL

You never see roleplay on MC servers, or if not, very rarely.

Here's a top tip: Minetest Game needs more worthwhile content (like actual content, not just new blocks!)

Hybrid Dog wrote:BBmine, here's my chatfocus mod: https://github.com/HybridDog/chatfocus
Note that it doesn't work correctly yet, see previous posts.

You could use the mod storage api to store settings.

l don't do it because setting_get could be added soon.
Instead you can configure the settings manually in init.lua now and after joining you need to type "hello<space><space>" without quotes in chat (replace <space> with " " without quotes) to make the mod know your name.

Jordach wrote:

Cpt_mcg wrote:People decide to roleplay because they have nothing better to do...LOL

You never see roleplay on MC servers, or if not, very rarely.

Here's a top tip: Minetest Game needs more worthwhile content (like actual content, not just new blocks!)

LOL

Cpt_mcg wrote:

Jordach wrote:

Cpt_mcg wrote:People decide to roleplay because they have nothing better to do...LOL

You never see roleplay on MC servers, or if not, very rarely.

Here's a top tip: Minetest Game needs more worthwhile content (like actual content, not just new blocks!)

LOL

Maybe if you do actually try to have servers with better mods this stuff wouldn't be seen so often...