Philanthropist/Christmas mod

[Monkey157]

Hey.

I want to do something nice at Christmas. I've got quite a lot of gold, and I'm wanting to get rid of it in a nice way. I won't go into why, but it's kinda easy to work out.

Anyway- what I want to do is to mail a single gold piece to everyone on the server, or as far as my money takes me, with a short message.


Obviously I can't possibly do this without a mod, so a second philanthropist is needed in this project! The mod would need to scan every player currently logged in on the server (on my side) and mail a message + 1 gold piece to everyone.

Would be really appreciative if someone could help with this!

[Hjalte]

This is a great idea.

Maybe also make it an option just to send a piece of gold to all the guild members? For all the good, but poor, people out there

Edit: Just thought of something.. Maybe have the addon scan the server at times or when the user wants it to and then save it to a database. Then it would have a larger database of players than just what players was on at the moment if only one scan is run.

[Monkey157]

Well, those things that you mentioned would certainly be grand.

I hope some talented mod maker takes up the call.

[Monkey157]

Anybody up to the task?

[shamandood]

it's a nice thought, but i can see some1 else (like gold farmers) using it to send spam to every1 on the server

[Hjalte]

I am sure gold farmers already have mods that do just that for them.. Maybe even bots?

Making an addon, if it is even possible, wouldnt help them a lot

[Wikwocket]

If you want to write such a mod, I would check out the various Census mods out there for seeing everyone online at a given time.

Alternatively you could try to download a list from a census site to get everyone who ever logged in.

Then check out a mod called GuildMailer for mailing multiple people the same message and/or attachment.

[Monkey157]

I've already looked at both of those mods and thought of the exact same combination -- thankyou for the advice. The thing is that I really do lack the ability to even know where to start with combining the two.

[sarf]

Get a list of people to send stuff to. List must look like this:
list = { "Name", "Name", "Name" };

for k,v in pairs(list) do
SetSendMailMoney(10000) -- 1 gold I think, try with an alt
SendMail(v, "MySubject", "MyBody"); -- replace these
end

Sarf