Remap /help back to the Help channel.
By
Durakken,
Posted on: 2010-06-10 02:45 in Suggestions and Ideas
The reason was because people kept typing /help expecting to get the help meny, failing and getting pissed off about it. So, eventually, they changed /help to do what people were trying to use it to do in the first place.
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Originally Posted by Arcanaville
Samuel_Tow is the only poster that makes me want to punch him in the head more often when I'm agreeing with him than when I'm disagreeing with him.
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/h should be set to the help channel
The tab thing should be fixed...
but /help should be the help menu
this isn't a suggestion it's a bug they've felt like ignoring ^.^
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First, it begs the question of how up-to-date, given all the changes we've been having recently, is the Help window. |
Originally Posted by Samuel_Tow
The reason was because people kept typing /help expecting to get the help meny, failing and getting pissed off about it. So, eventually, they changed /help to do what people were trying to use it to do in the first place.
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Second, what I'm suggesting is that, if the interface command isn't going to get fixed, the devs at least capitalize on the helpful nature of players who monitor the Help channel - before /hc, many of us used macros to send tells which explained about the Help channel, as well as answering whatever they were using the /help command to look for.
Another potential solution would be to add a hyperlink to the Help window in the error message of /help command - for example, simply typing /help would return an error message saying;
/help {synonims: /hc, /h}: Usage: /help <string> Sends a message to the [Help Channel].
Clicking on the hyperlink would open the help window on the page that explains the Help channel - but since the help window would be open, the player could also use it to browse other topics. Additionally, that same page might mention how to open the help window normally.
I never understood the pont of repurposing the /help command for passive help. Even worse, in well over a year since the /hc command was implemented, the interface hasn't been updated to support it. But even with the assumption of new players that /help pulls up passive help, the fact that it doesn't works even better, because the odds are someone in the help channel will send them a tell not only explaining what the /help command does, but also information on whatever they were trying to find.
So, to reiterate - given the fact that the track record of the /hc command has shown that it's not likely to be soon integrated into the UI and the blase attitude toward switching out /help for /hc implies it wasn't that hard to do {and thus reverse}, then please do the latter - if at all possible, before Going Rogue. If it attracts as large a number of new and returning players as predicted, the newcomers' first impressions are likely to be more favorable if their requests for /help are answered by helpful veterans than an indifferent {and possibly outdated} info window.