New users have a lot of questions so we end up repeating ourselves fairly often.
On Discord we use !bangs to display answers to these questions, e.g.
when someone asks about petnames, someone (usually kaen01) types !petname, and a bot spits out:
We should have something similar for the forums, and there are two ways to approach a solution:
1) !Bangs (forum version)
When you reply with !petname, the word !petname is a link to a relevant post.
Example of a reply to a user,
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Hey, there's an answer to your question right here !petname
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pros:
- quick
- answer is kept in a single location, making updating easy and old answers eternally relevant
cons:
- not quite as friendly, you need to remember the !bangs
- users have to click the link to see the answer
2) Reply Templates
In the wysiwyg bar, there'd be a dropdown list of common replies. You pick one out, and it spits it into your editor.
Example of a reply to a user,
(dropdown -> hide petname response)
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So you want to hide petnames with MQ2?
You will need to edit this in your macroquest.ini in your Release Folder.
Open macroquest.ini and control-F search for `[Captions]`
Under that section you will find Pet=
Change this:
to this:
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pros
- fewer clicks, answer is displayed for the user
- easy to modify the answer for a more specific question
cons
- more text for the search engine to go through
- old answers become outdated
Which solution should we use?
On Discord we use !bangs to display answers to these questions, e.g.
when someone asks about petnames, someone (usually kaen01) types !petname, and a bot spits out:
---------------------
So you want to hide petnames with MQ2?
You will need to edit this in your macroquest.ini in your Release Folder.
Open macroquest.ini and control-F search for `[Captions]`
Under that section you will find Pet=
Change this:
to this:
--------------------
So you want to hide petnames with MQ2?
You will need to edit this in your macroquest.ini in your Release Folder.
Open macroquest.ini and control-F search for `[Captions]`
Under that section you will find Pet=
Change this:
Pet=${If[${NamingSpawn.Mark},${NamingSpawn.Mark} - ,]}${If[${NamingSpawn.Assist},>> ,]}${NamingSpawn.DisplayName}${If[${NamingSpawn.Assist}, - ${NamingSpawn.PctHPs}%<<,]}
to this:
Pet=${If[${NamingSpawn.Mark}, - ,]}
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We should have something similar for the forums, and there are two ways to approach a solution:
1) !Bangs (forum version)
When you reply with !petname, the word !petname is a link to a relevant post.
Example of a reply to a user,
---------------------
Hey, there's an answer to your question right here !petname
--------------------
pros:
- quick
- answer is kept in a single location, making updating easy and old answers eternally relevant
cons:
- not quite as friendly, you need to remember the !bangs
- users have to click the link to see the answer
2) Reply Templates
In the wysiwyg bar, there'd be a dropdown list of common replies. You pick one out, and it spits it into your editor.
Example of a reply to a user,
(dropdown -> hide petname response)
-----------------
So you want to hide petnames with MQ2?
You will need to edit this in your macroquest.ini in your Release Folder.
Open macroquest.ini and control-F search for `[Captions]`
Under that section you will find Pet=
Change this:
Pet=${If[${NamingSpawn.Mark},${NamingSpawn.Mark} - ,]}${If[${NamingSpawn.Assist},>> ,]}${NamingSpawn.DisplayName}${If[${NamingSpawn.Assist}, - ${NamingSpawn.PctHPs}%<<,]}
to this:
Pet=${If[${NamingSpawn.Mark}, - ,]}
-----------------
pros
- fewer clicks, answer is displayed for the user
- easy to modify the answer for a more specific question
cons
- more text for the search engine to go through
- old answers become outdated
Which solution should we use?
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