Obviously we can't do anything to message or tell users of outdated loaders what went wrong when they used wrong version (too bad Ashita's loader doesn't have something I can use to tell people they need to update xiloader). But we could add a future forward feature to display text from the server side so that in the future, further updates to the lobby end could message back arbitrary messaging to the client going forward. So that as new features get added people still using the 1st version to include said message feature could see messages that were not baked into the loader telling them whats gone wrong, or custom messages from the servers like "hey we knew LSB told us not to but we're version locked to blah blah blah" or irc style "message of the day" type things before it launches ffxi.
reticulating splines
Just a single and optional packet of a short plain-text message, maybe 44 characters.
If you are of the opinion this is a terrible thought lets just quietly close the issue. :) Part of me thinks this idea is stupid already, but the rest of me is undecided and maybe there are uses I never thought of, figured I'd pitch it out and see. It is just something that randomly popped into my head.
Obviously we can't do anything to message or tell users of outdated loaders what went wrong when they used wrong version (too bad Ashita's loader doesn't have something I can use to tell people they need to update xiloader). But we could add a future forward feature to display text from the server side so that in the future, further updates to the lobby end could message back arbitrary messaging to the client going forward. So that as new features get added people still using the 1st version to include said message feature could see messages that were not baked into the loader telling them whats gone wrong, or custom messages from the servers like "hey we knew LSB told us not to but we're version locked to blah blah blah" or irc style "message of the day" type things before it launches ffxi.
Just a single and optional packet of a short plain-text message, maybe 44 characters.
If you are of the opinion this is a terrible thought lets just quietly close the issue. :) Part of me thinks this idea is stupid already, but the rest of me is undecided and maybe there are uses I never thought of, figured I'd pitch it out and see. It is just something that randomly popped into my head.