More on day/night and messaging.

[Bonesaw314 0]

I know you can edit the day night cycles in xml and you can add a messages.xml. But is there any way to trigger a message similar to the old character status but for server time. For instance:

Dusk/dawn is approaching.

It will be dark/light soon.

It is "midnight"/"noon"

I feel that if players have a general idea of what time the server is at or will be at getting through the night would be better for some. I'd love to combine this with a over all.message of the length of day/night cycles. Does anyone else think that would be helpful? Ideally we'd have a variable for server time we could put into messages like we do for server name and port. It wouldn't be very immersive but would be helpful. 

[Meoph 6]

does the messages.xml thing work now? I twas just displaying "text" 

[Bonesaw314 0]

Oh, I didn't know it was broken. I haven't done much other than read what info I can find. So I was mostly thinking about the messaging I'd want. I know for me a big reason I don't stick out the night on most servers is I don't know how long it will be when logging in.

[kevo1414 62]

4 hours ago, Bonesaw314 said:

I know you can edit the day night cycles in xml and you can add a messages.xml. But is there any way to trigger a message similar to the old character status but for server time. For instance:

Dusk/dawn is approaching.

It will be dark/light soon.

It is "midnight"/"noon"

I feel that if players have a general idea of what time the server is at or will be at getting through the night would be better for some. I'd love to combine this with a over all.message of the length of day/night cycles. Does anyone else think that would be helpful? Ideally we'd have a variable for server time we could put into messages like we do for server name and port. It wouldn't be very immersive but would be helpful. 

You don't need this. Sun/Moon can help you with time. I suggest you to watch this video.