What's your Minecraft Username?: ThatBurningFox
What's the title of your suggestion?: Typing Indicator
What's your suggestion?:
So, whether or not this is possible is something I'm unsure of. I've been told by someone that knows development that it's fundamentally impossible. However, I've also seen two different mods that seem to utilise exactly what I'm aiming for here, which seem to detect regular chat and not exclusively commands. How they do it, I'm unsure, but it seems like it HAS been done before in Minecraft???
Apparently commands are the main reliable way to detect chat, but that would sadly not be enough for what I'm pitching: Whenever someone is typing in the chat, have a small visual indicator above their nametag to signify to the players around them that they are actually typing. For example, a small symbol (animated or static, doesn't really matter) of three dots, or something similar. This would essentially be an indicator that the person you are looking at is actively typing and not AFK (or missed your message, etc).
It could also be fine tuned to filter out specific /commands or the likes, to not show if nametags are turned off, or if the player is in vanish - lots of ways to customise it if it can be done, but I'm not sure how technically feasible it is.
How will this benefit the server and community?:
Pretty much just a MASSIVE quality of life improvement designed to make it so players have less awkward moments of standing around doing nothing, to prevent those awkward moments where you're waiting for a response, but the other player didn't actually SEE your response. Cue spending the next 5 minutes in limbo before finally politely asking "Um... are you typing still?" and then get hit with the "...No, I was waiting for your reply?", classic.
It's also a good indicator for if people are starting and stopping typing, which could be useful in some niche situations like if they're using their phone in front of you - since realistically, you would be able to tell someone is actually speaking into a phone, as they would have to hold it up to their mouth in the event they are whispering. This will also help to tell if people actually tried sending whisper messages to you from just barely four blocks away. Oops!! No more guessing if they saw what you said or if you missed what THEY said, you'd be able to tell that they did type SOMETHING and then suddenly stop. Wow! Wonder why that might be.
However, the plausibility of this feature is entirely down to the developers - whether or not there is wizardly capable of actually achieving what I've seen in other plugins is left to the judgement of the staff team. I still think that getting an idea of what people would want to see from this sort of idea would be fun, though! If it turns out impossible, whatever, at least the pitch was made.
So, what do you guys think of the indicator idea? Do you think there would be situations it would be too intrusive? Do you think there's ways to make it better as a concept?
Let's hear it!
What's the title of your suggestion?: Typing Indicator
What's your suggestion?:
So, whether or not this is possible is something I'm unsure of. I've been told by someone that knows development that it's fundamentally impossible. However, I've also seen two different mods that seem to utilise exactly what I'm aiming for here, which seem to detect regular chat and not exclusively commands. How they do it, I'm unsure, but it seems like it HAS been done before in Minecraft???
Apparently commands are the main reliable way to detect chat, but that would sadly not be enough for what I'm pitching: Whenever someone is typing in the chat, have a small visual indicator above their nametag to signify to the players around them that they are actually typing. For example, a small symbol (animated or static, doesn't really matter) of three dots, or something similar. This would essentially be an indicator that the person you are looking at is actively typing and not AFK (or missed your message, etc).
It could also be fine tuned to filter out specific /commands or the likes, to not show if nametags are turned off, or if the player is in vanish - lots of ways to customise it if it can be done, but I'm not sure how technically feasible it is.
How will this benefit the server and community?:
Pretty much just a MASSIVE quality of life improvement designed to make it so players have less awkward moments of standing around doing nothing, to prevent those awkward moments where you're waiting for a response, but the other player didn't actually SEE your response. Cue spending the next 5 minutes in limbo before finally politely asking "Um... are you typing still?" and then get hit with the "...No, I was waiting for your reply?", classic.
It's also a good indicator for if people are starting and stopping typing, which could be useful in some niche situations like if they're using their phone in front of you - since realistically, you would be able to tell someone is actually speaking into a phone, as they would have to hold it up to their mouth in the event they are whispering. This will also help to tell if people actually tried sending whisper messages to you from just barely four blocks away. Oops!! No more guessing if they saw what you said or if you missed what THEY said, you'd be able to tell that they did type SOMETHING and then suddenly stop. Wow! Wonder why that might be.
However, the plausibility of this feature is entirely down to the developers - whether or not there is wizardly capable of actually achieving what I've seen in other plugins is left to the judgement of the staff team. I still think that getting an idea of what people would want to see from this sort of idea would be fun, though! If it turns out impossible, whatever, at least the pitch was made.
So, what do you guys think of the indicator idea? Do you think there would be situations it would be too intrusive? Do you think there's ways to make it better as a concept?
Let's hear it!
