#QOL Feature Request: /ap Aliases

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brave brook
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It is faster for me to type /ap than it is to go into the Self channel and click on the AP link to my home. Most people also shorthand certain popular galaxies like Free Market to FM. Since /ap is already non-case sensitive, I think a feature to register aliases in the commands file would be very useful for people. One use case I would use is /ap home, and then inside of the commands file, something such as "/apalias "home" "Earthforce Sanctuary Bravo" instead of having to use complicated names that exist in the uni such as Schwarzschild Radius. Since this is all player customizable, it is possible you get a conflict in aliases and existing galaxy names. Simply defer the responsibily to the user and always alias. /apalias "Celestial Encampment" "Paxian Foothold" would always make /ap Celestial Encampment go to the Paxian Foothold. Keep it purely client side so there's no security risk.

This would be a nice QOL feature to help people customize AP usage. If there are issues about the implementation and make this impossible, I think it's fine in the meantime to workaround using /self AP links.

pulsar lance
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We talked about doing something like this but ended up with Self channel instead due to reduced complexity.

brave brook
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Oh okay so this is moot

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I didn't find anyone else's post about this kind of feature so I decided to just put it out there

pulsar lance
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Its not moot but self channel was basically the low lift version. We may expand into this down the line.

brave brook
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Ah, sounds good

pulsar lance
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Yeah its a good idea.

jovial tiger
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what is the self channel? 🙂

ancient tusk
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If you "/selfmsg 'text'" it will pop up in its own tab

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Good for messaging yourself a list of gals you commonly ap to, and you can set up a text file in your ss files to do it automatically on login, but I forget how

slow smelt
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i didn't know about the file but /SaveCommands is what I use to run "/AlternativeTitle" on startup

ancient tusk
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Wait what's alternative title?

slow smelt
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Without

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With

ancient tusk
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Cool ty

slow smelt
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It makes multiclienting via the taskbar much easier

pulsar lance
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I need to make AlternativeTitle a checkbox instead