Town Sign Links  (Read 688 times)

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EttaDreamfeather

Town Sign Links
« on: 21 Feb 2015, 08:35:17 »
I was wondering if it would be possible to have an application system like towns have for auction chests, however instead of auction chests it would be that the town has a sign placed at their spawn that has a link to the town's thread (Recruitment/information thread/etc).

It would be that when a player does /town spawn [name] they would end up facing this sign that perhaps says like "Check out our town at: Link here". (Perhaps like with the voting link it could be a shortened one that directs to the thread the town wants, so it's easier to type in?) I'm not sure if there's a way to make it so a player could 'hit' or 'place' on a sign so that it pops up the option to open the link or not as the vote does in the chat. That would make it easier though if possible. ;3

This would allow towns to have an easier way to recruit players or let players see what's available in the town, as the town staff could simply direct them to the town spawn and the person could check out the thread, see all the rules and amenities, and get a better idea of the town instead of by what the town staff can place on signs around the spawn.

There could perhaps be a possibility for multiple signs with links? So that a player could click on different links to different posts within the same town thread if they're interested in different things about the town.


ItsLawrence

Re: Town Sign Links
« Reply #1 on: 21 Feb 2015, 13:57:33 »
While I can see a reason for this, it is already possible to add (unclickable) links to signs; you could simply use a url shortening service (as you mentioned) like Goo.gl or Ow.ly and simply enter the url of the page you'd like to put on the sign and then it will give you a shortened version (which should be short enough to just type out onto a sign) like http://ow.ly/JqUhe. It would still be typing involved but a lot less characters, if people were actually interested in finding out more information I'm sure they'd be willing to type it out.

We do also have plans as part of the site update to introduce town information pages and as part of this you will be able to directly link to the topics you require; but this isn't likely to be around for quite some time.