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Would it be too much work to make it so that you can nominate people who are offline? Sometimes people have to log off before an event finishes but they still contributed to the RP, or sometimes they log off before you remember to use the nominate command. There's been a few times when I've tried to nominate someone but was told that the person couldn't be found, and I'd hate for them to not receive the nomination because of poor timing.

Similarly, are nominations logged in the event that a GM isn't online at the time? I don't know how it works now.

Elystole wrote:Similarly, are nominations logged in the event that a GM isn't online at the time? I don't know how it works now.

Yes, nominations are logged and emailed to us at the end of the day.

I'll have to think about the code changes needed to make the offline nomination thing work. We could just treat it like NPC mail and let it accept anything for a name, but I can see a couple issues that could come up from that.

Jirato wrote:I'll have to think about the code changes needed to make the offline nomination thing work. We could just treat it like NPC mail and let it accept anything for a name, but I can see a couple issues that could come up from that.

Why like npcmail? Doesn't the usual postal service only allow for mailing PCs who actually exist?

Elystole wrote:Why like npcmail? Doesn't the usual postal service only allow for mailing PCs who actually exist?

Yes. I'm pretty sure npcmail is the only system currently around that will let you just enter anything for a name regardless of if the person exists or is online at the time.

Jirato wrote:

Elystole wrote:Why like npcmail? Doesn't the usual postal service only allow for mailing PCs who actually exist?

Yes. I'm pretty sure npcmail is the only system currently around that will let you just enter anything for a name regardless of if the person exists or is online at the time.

Right, but wouldn't nominate only be concerned with PCs that exist? Offline, maybe, but existing.

Elystole wrote:Right, but wouldn't nominate only be concerned with PCs that exist? Offline, maybe, but existing.

I was trying to avoid having to deal with additional checks to see whether or not the characters existed to keep things slim. Pulling up a list of offline characters isn't as simple as it sounds. I went ahead and did it anyway though.

So, yeah, nominate can now be used on offline characters (only if they exist).

Jirato wrote:So, yeah, nominate can now be used on offline characters (only if they exist).

Very nice. Thanks.