Suggestion: Crashbats (Messenger Bats)

[Crashlander04]

I had this great idea that would put bats to use.

Have bats deliver private letters or messages via flight - where they would fly from one player to another. Not only would this be fun to have for communication purposes, but you could also intercept other communication bats by shooting them down and reading the letter. Yes, it would take a while for bats to fly from one person to another, but I'm hoping a plugin could be made to make their flight path a bit easier (ie; mountains, walls, roofs.)

You would either have to have a bat captured, or one could generate upon typing /msg or something of the like. I feel as though having one generate would be easier.

Perhaps you would have to check outside your house to see if a bat is there (assuming it can't get inside), and upon right clicking it you would receive the message on a map (similar to the letter plugin). The bat could then either fly back to the sender or simply poof away depending on how the plugin would choose to make them.

Whether or not we'd need /msg if we had this is up to debate, as well as the requirements to be able to send messenger bats.

I'd personally like it if only donors could use bats, and then remove /msg - to make communication a more strategic and valued part of the game.

I coined the name Crashbats for this idea, but I also like the name Yottabats (cuz, you know, byte/bat.. get it?). Regardless of the name, I hope we can agree on a way to implement this, because bats are too cool to shoot down (pun intended).

[lilwhitey]

This isnt a bad idea... breeding bats to use on messages sounds pretty cool...

[lordgodfrey]

Hmm, I see one thing wrong with this. Mobs freeze when they are a certain distance away from people, one solution to this would be to make them teleport to the receiver, I don't know if this is possible or not though, yotta probably knows.

[sethd13]

Seems like something that would be good for the rp server, however your idea of this making communication harder?
Skype, team-speak, mumble, vent, there are any number of ways to communicate privately.

[yottabyte]

Seems like a whole lot of work for something that people probably wouldn't use a lot.

[Crashlander04]

I would use it all the time

[iDieForEXP]

Crash you said this would be more strategic? What could be more strategic about giving the opponent a chance to shoot it down and read it, rather than /msging and knowing that its secure? Although this'd be really cool :3

[Leech]

shoot it down and read it [...] Although this'd be really cool :3

This sounds like a good time

[sethd13]

Id rather use ts

[Android]

Yeah, considering messages are no longer suppressed by RP, normal messages would probably be better.