Re-sizeable Sticky Note Edit Window

I can't be the only person who has sticky notes that are more than 5 lines long, can I?

Is it as easy to allow sticky notes created by the Host to be visible to Clients in multiplayer games (not all of them obviously)?

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Is it as easy to allow sticky notes created by the Host to be visible to Clients in multiplayer games (not all of them obviously)?

That one is more tricky - not necessarily from a technology point of view but simply that of whether clients want notes dumped on them from the server, and/or vice versa. Who owns the notes, who can edit them, who can see them, who wants to see them.

I invariably find myself typing a long list into this box when playing a large sim, for example: Euston. My system is to list the platform numbers in order, one on each line, and then update the note with departure times as they change. So with the Euston 1980 TT, I would have a sticky note 15 lines long (one for each platform).

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Is it as easy to allow sticky notes created by the Host to be visible to Clients in multiplayer games (not all of them obviously)?

That one is more tricky - not necessarily from a technology point of view but simply that of whether clients want notes dumped on them from the server, and/or vice versa. Who owns the notes, who can edit them, who can see them, who wants to see them.

Is it possible to have a public/private option (eg a tick box for public, defaults to private)when creating the note (I presume a public note would be held on the server).

Then in multi-player a client will have make a conscious decision for a public note, eg when it's for another client's benefit. Would other clients be able to delete said note anyway?

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I invariably find myself typing a long list into this box when playing a large sim, for example: Euston. My system is to list the platform numbers in order, one on each line, and then update the note with departure times as they change. So with the Euston 1980 TT, I would have a sticky note 15 lines long (one for each platform).

Have you tried putting a sticky at the left of each of Euston's platform's buffer stop showing the departure time. Makes the sim nice and neat.

Barry

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Is it as easy to allow sticky notes created by the Host to be visible to Clients in multiplayer games (not all of them obviously)?

That one is more tricky - not necessarily from a technology point of view but simply that of whether clients want notes dumped on them from the server, and/or vice versa. Who owns the notes, who can edit them, who can see them, who wants to see them.

Is it possible to have a public/private option (eg a tick box for public, defaults to private)when creating the note (I presume a public note would be held on the server).

Then in multi-player a client will have make a conscious decision for a public note, eg when it's for another client's benefit. Would other clients be able to delete said note anyway?

It's not so much whether the poster of the note wants to share: it's whether the other people in the multiplayer want to see the poster's notes! Now, there could be a way of rejecting such, but that leads to the question of what happens if the note changes - do the recipients get an annoying nag to say it's changed, or nothing at all? If a client shares, do all other clients get it, or just the server - who might then be offered to distribute or not. What happens if the client disconnects while a note is shared? Do client's notes get saved when the server saves a game?

All I'm saying is that there is a lot to consider, not that it's too difficult. Once we've had the time to go through it and sort out all the decision trees, then it may make an appearance.

Do we really need to spend so much time discussing whether the recipients want to see the sticky notes, whether they’ll be nagged when they get changed, whatever? And discussing who’s allowed to edit notes? Just put a public/private option when creating/editing the note, and after that, for public notes, let anyone edit or delete them. This is Simsig we’re talking about. It’s supposed to be a simulation of signalling, which means we’re all supposed to be acting like professionals. People creating pointless spammy public post-it notes, or maliciously deleting each other’s notes, isn’t exactly professional, and should probably best be solved with a quick kick by the host, not a complicated access control system!