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May 09, 2005 Solra Bizna link
Right now, it's just a bank bot with the functionality of ELIT Bank. Planned features are a long-term messaging system (IRC MemoServ-style), a web-based interface, a lottery, guild accounts, etc. The framework is there for almost any feature, any suggestions?
-:sigma.SB
May 10, 2005 smittens link
Not a suggestion, but I assume the lottery will be like the one I've heard about from the earlier days, as opposed to risking the money we have in the bank without our consent? Not that I have an account (although apparently SmittensIsPaintedYellow still has some cash from when I switched his name)
May 10, 2005 Solra Bizna link
The lottery won't lose the bank any money, the way I'm doing it... >:D
I'm also adding regular interest to accounts based on the amount you have in it, Neopets style (i.e. 24 hours after you last withdrew/deposited/collected you can collect the interest, but if you don't collect it you don't get it).
-:sigma.SB
May 11, 2005 .mousepad. link
does it do anything yet? I msg it and it doesnt do anything back.
May 11, 2005 mr_spuck link
Then it broke again :D
May 12, 2005 Solra Bizna link
If you /msg it or /givemoney it and it doesn't respond, LET ME KNOW! If you let me know soon enough I can deal with the problem, but if the log clears (in the case of a givemoney) that money is gone forever! (I'm in channel 203, or solra@tejat.net on Jabber if Services is completely dead and not just the controller script)
-:sigma.SB
May 12, 2005 Solra Bizna link
By the way, I'm going to explicitly spell it out here, as this is becoming an annoyingly common error... 1,000,000 credits is 0.1% interest. NOT 10%, 0.1%!
-:sigma.SB
May 25, 2005 smittens link
And here I thought IA could boot all our traders... (I'm kidding! We need you! WE NEED YOU LIKE AIR!)
Oct 17, 2005 igni ferroque link
Whatever became of Services?
Oct 18, 2005 LeberMac link
It died. (Along with Solra's HD)

Solra refuses to resurrect it.

:(
Oct 18, 2005 igni ferroque link
How was it implemented? How did it interface with VO?
Oct 18, 2005 LeberMac link
Yeah, I think Solra used Lua to write some stuff that hooked in to the server, but I could be totally and completely wrong.
Oct 18, 2005 greengeek link
Far as I know, it was just a player account with a script running in the background that watches errors.log and feeds back responses to incoming messages. I'm pretty sure there are no open interfaces for players to work with besides what we see on the website and what we can "see" in game.

The trick is making sure it does The Right Thing when necessary.
Oct 19, 2005 LeberMac link
I thought he got "permission" from the devs to do some next-level stuff. I could be wrong.
Oct 19, 2005 greengeek link
I guess we'd have to get a response from him. I'm reasonably sure everything that Services did could be handled with the method I described without any trouble, just a lot more code and thought than what goes into something like PFS. However, because it runs as its own character, perhaps he wanted approval to make sure that such a use of an account was Kosher according to the ToS