Ignore players - both clients

Yoshi

"  https://uo.com/wiki/ultima-online-wiki/publish-notes/publish-112/

Increased max ignore list cap from 20 to 80.

Both clients, when you add a player to ignore list, you can no longer see their spells being cast, rendering this feature unusable. 

Expected result: for feature to be usable

Please note, it is currently not possible to page on another player for verbal harassment:

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gay

Of course, they have to speak their words of power in order to cast spells. When you choose to ignore them, you also ignore the utterance of their incantations.

Seems to be working as intended. Otherwise, choose who you ignore wisely.

Yoshi

"no post while drunk pls"

gay

Sorry, I don't drink. You should take your own advice though, and try to remember that no means no, even (especially) when you're drinking.

Lord_Frodo

If adults acted like adults then there would be no need for an ignore list.

Yoshi

"you're trolling wrong thread, i don't even log into general chat

and i can't read ingame chat above heads

so it's not going to affect me

you're effectivly all blocked to me by default

i report for someone else"

Lord_Frodo

Yoshi said:

"you're trolling wrong thread, i don't even log into general chat

and i can't read ingame chat above heads

so it's not going to affect me

you're effectivly all blocked to me by default

i report for someone else"

LOL  So you are the official spokes person for every body else.  Quit reporting for so called every body else, which we all know is BS.  If they are on Gen Chat then they are on a paid account and they can speak for themselves.

Yoshi

“Other people don’t post reports because of following.
a) they assume devs already know of issue and they don’t realise devs don’t play game so don’t know
b) website erroneously tells people to report using bug report form where you cannot see other peoples reports and there is no evidence the bug report emails are read 
c) if they come here to post report, they assume that dev would know what expected result is and often omit expected result because they don’t realise dev don’t play the game so don’t know.
d) they can’t post screenshots as their guilds have banned broadsword classic client because of the bugs so difficult to show problems”

ForeverFun

In EC, if you have "Ignore Players" checked, it's a broad based filter.

Probably for most cases, you can do finer grained filtering yourself, as below.

Manage the Ignore Players list as usual, but uncheck User Settings->Filters->"Ignore players".

Add the below to overheadtext.lua, OverheadText.ShowOverheadText()

	if (IsSpell and Interface.ShowSpellName ) then
		SystemData.Text = SystemData.Text .. L" [" .. StringToWString(spell.name) .. L"]"
	end

-- new filtering code, drop all overhead text not a spell
	if(not IsSpell) then
		for item, value in pairs(WindowData.IgnoreIdList) do
			if(value == SystemData.TextSourceID) then
				return
			end
		end
	end

You can do similiar filtering in the chat window log (NewChatWindow.lua) too, though may not be needed for most cases.

ForeverFun

The additional code block below, expands the checks for "bogus" spell casting text as mentioned in the (*) caveat in this thread.  It's best to also have the changes mentioned in that thread, too.

This will toss bogus spellcasting text, regardless of the ignore list.

	if(not IsSpell) then
		for item, value in pairs(WindowData.IgnoreIdList) do
			if(value == SystemData.TextSourceID) then
				return
			end
		end

		-- imperfect: check for bogus/obfuscated spell casting text.  (leading, trailing spaces, case mismatch, etc)

		if(type(SystemData.TextColor) == "table") then
			-- not player origin text
		else
			-- check player origin text against spell table.
			local lowerText = string.gsub(string.lower(senderText), "%s+", " ")	-- compress multiple spaces

			for item, value in pairs(SpellsInfo.SpellsData) do
				local lowerMatch = string.lower(item)

				if(string.find(lowerText, lowerMatch, 1, true)) then	-- search within user supplied text string, against table of spell names
					return	-- drop the text.
				end
			end
		end
	end

Yoshi

" here is a thread showing players using an exploit to push spellcasting spells out of view supposebly by using overhead chat

https://forum.uo.com/discussion/10978/what-is-this-hack-please

being able to block players overhead chat only will also fix this exploit

although i'm not sure exactly how that one user in the video managed to completely remove the mysticism spells"

ForeverFun

Why don't you try some of the changes and report if they work for what you have in mind?

If you want to drop all non (actual) spell casting overhead text, from all players (except yourself) by default, without using an ignore list, this should work (un-tested).  (just replace starting at the (if not IsSpell) spots as noted above.

 Make sure the filters->ignore players is unchecked, and you have this change: https://forum.uo.com/discussion/12455/ec-spoofed-spell-casting-overhead-text

	if(not IsSpell) then
		if(WindowData.PlayerStatus.PlayerId ~= SystemData.TextSourceID) then
			return
		end
	end

Yoshi

"I don't use EC for attended gameplay, i don't like the graphics

And i can't use CC anymore as I have visual disability that is not catered for as they allow able bodied users to choose my spell text color"