Bulletin board functionality at Lions Mane Inn and others

[ShampooChicken]

Back in the day the bulletin boards you see on some taverns walls were interactive. They don't seem to be anymore. I'm trying to remember how exactly they functioned. Can anyone give me any information on their past/present/future? Thanks.

[loramin]

Essentially you could leave short messages that other players could then read. I don't remember people actually using them seriously though. In fact, I don't think most even knew they were there.

However, illustrious poster (and former project contributor) Secrets recorded a video of how they worked, (https://www.project1999.com/forums/showpost.php?p=1914530&postcount=4) apparently using TakP (which I guess has them working):

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[Encroaching Death]

Devs after one week: "This was a very bad idea...oh god!"

[Skarne]

Love this idea.

“Danceswithpoontang you owe me 2k for that thick banded belt or I’ll petition in 2 days”

[loramin]

Love this idea.

“Danceswithpoontang you owe me 2k for that thick banded belt or I’ll petition in 2 days”

Heh, except in classic (when these things actually worked) no one had a name like "Danceswithpoontang".

I miss classic.

[Skarne]

They do now!

[Patrece]

great idea to get this working after /guildwar, nice thread

[Jimjam]

Should be in game browser of https://project1999.com/forums/

[Jimjam]

Essentially you could leave short messages that other players could then read. I don't remember people actually using them seriously though. In fact, I don't think most even knew they were there.

However, illustrious poster (and former project contributor) Secrets recorded a video of how they worked, (https://www.project1999.com/forums/showpost.php?p=1914530&postcount=4) apparently using TakP (which I guess has them working):

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I rolled a toon the other day on takp and tried the board at Fish's pub out back in Qeynos. Board didn't seem to work there.

Is there a special patch to enable it?

[Danth]

Should be in game browser of https://project1999.com/forums/

Linking the in-game forum to the web forum was a missed opportunity. As it was the in-game boards were almost useless. They worked at least through the Velious era but most of the posts by then were little more than variants of "Hello?" and "Is anyone reading this?" I believe the necesaary functionality--the ability to click the boards--was removed from later clients, like the one we use here on P1999. The textures for the message boards are still present and can be seen in-game on P99 today, but cannot be interacted with.

Danth

[loramin]

I rolled a toon the other day on takp and tried the board at Fish's pub out back in Qeynos. Board didn't seem to work there.

Is there a special patch to enable it?

I don't play on TakP, so I don't know. Secrets is a dev, so this might have been something they were working on for TakP, but for whatever reason the TakP folks opted not to include it?

Secrets is a poster here on P99 though, or at least they used to be (haven't seen them in a while), so you could always fire off PM if you're curious.

[Jimjam]

Visited the TAKP site and says Secrets is ex-staff there too :'(

I can't find very easily on their wiki/forums how to get this classic ui working on takp. Boo!

[loramin]

Yeah, unfortunately I think the only person who can tell us anything is https://www.project1999.com/forums/member.php?u=117

[Jimjam]

NewUI=FALSE

[Chortles Snortles]

“if you’re reading this note, please like, upboat and subscribe to the p1999 wiki” -loramin
(lol)

[Jimjam]

You keep saying that - does Lora have a yout ube? I like to imagine he has a soothing soft voice like Michael / Kraddok. Thats the barbarian male voice imo so would be great.

Bonus points if the youtube channel is a stream of surfing / editing the wiki instead of playing this boring old game.

Can have one episode “The Treasure Hunters Hunters guide” on how to find the treasure hunter guide on wiki as well as how to edit in new spots.

Please release one episode Loramin, even if just for April 1st.

[loramin]

You keep saying that - does Lora have a yout ube? I like to imagine he has a soothing soft voice like Michael / Kraddok. Thats the barbarian male voice imo so would be great.

Bonus points if the youtube channel is a stream of surfing / editing the wiki instead of playing this boring old game.

Can have one episode “The Treasure Hunters Hunters guide” on how to find the treasure hunter guide on wiki as well as how to edit in new spots.

Please release one episode Loramin, even if just for April 1st.

https://cdn-acpnj.nitrocdn.com/SDkrhncnWeetGsYGlzwaPnbfptfOeIKk/assets/static/optimized/rev-00d8738/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/17-Laughing-Really-Hard-Gif.gif

[Jibartik]

I would watch that but surely comment about the wiki spoiling the mystery but plz do make.