Add Nexus pad location for warps

Riot

marked as major

This would require some sort of database of nexus points, and a method of manually maintaining this.

2014-10-01T14:30:26+00:00

14mRh4X0r

Maybe we could enhance the Infobox warp template to show the nearest nexus, and get the information from there?

2014-10-01T16:33:25+00:00

Riot

We could, yeah. But I'd really prefer to move away from manually updated infoboxes anyway - often the "nearest warp" info is a long way out of date on the wiki, and maintaining these for an increasing number of locations is going to be increasingly difficult. I think an automated database of nexus exits would be best, that a script can just check the coords in an infobox against, and the same with warps. We already have a list of craftbook warps in world/craftbook/warps.txt, it would just be a matter of applying some criterion to determine which are nexus points, or perhaps mandating the use of "Nexus: " as a prefix for their text, or nexus_ for their name, to make it easier to machine process (and for human maintenance).

2014-10-01T17:57:26+00:00

Saleh Samee

From what I learnt today, we could do so players never really see the actual warp name(ingame chat), but only the description/text when they arrive at a cbwarp. Then adding nexus_ for their name would not be a problem, we can even have a hub_ prefix for the hubs, so on the mco/maps you can have the hubs show up as infrastrucure and just regular nexus_ as settlements. Just a thought, goodnight.

2014-11-25T23:20:50+00:00

Riot

There's an admin email thread this week discussing removing obsolete cbwarp entries and cleaning up their names and titles - please contribute comments there.

2014-11-26T06:58:31+00:00

Anna Bakker

This would also be useful for /nearestnexus as there isn't a way to tell if a cbwarp is a nexus pad or not. Besides the hubs and branches which all start with "nexus" and /nearestnexus currently uses.

2016-04-03T09:43:13+00:00

Anna Bakker

In world/craftbook/warps.txt there seems to be a spot for names of each cbwarp, before the message players see when using them, this could be used to determine which cbwarps are nexus related or not. Currently only a few of the cbwarps use this feature, most have this section empty.

The nexus hubs themselves use this: nexussouth:freedonia,0,-1817.5,66.5,3811.5,-89.54996,4.350004:Branch - South (Lime):Now entering Nexus South.

Branch - South (Lime) is the section I am talking about, where most other cbwarps don't have anything there.

As said this would also be useful for /nearestnexus determining if a cbwarp is a nexus destination or not, and what the name of it is. Currently it just uses nexus hub names as they all start with nexus.