Chat message should only appear for user's who are "close" to hear it

[djasnowski]

Do you want to request a feature or report a bug?

bug

What is the current behavior?

When a user types on chat, everyone in the map can see it.

If the current behavior is a bug, please provide the exact steps to reproduce.

• Player 1 logs in. Goes to (24, 20).
• Player 2 logs in. Goes to (243, 93).
• Player 1 says "Hello world."
• Player 2 sees "Player 1: Hello world."

What is the expected behavior?

Player 2 should only see a message from the player who is saying a message if they are theoretically in their viewport. So 15x11 tiles should be their chat range.

[djasnowski]

It seems like a re-work of the Socket class is in order. We can extend this to the Player class so that way we don't need to statically call it and already have some vital information (like player's socket ID, x, y, etc.)

For example, player.emit to send back to only player's client and player.broadcast to send to all (in viewport).

The socket_id will really help de-clutter the current Socket.emit method that we currently do at the moment. Because right now it's like:

Socket.emit('CHAT:MESSAGE', {
  data: { type: 'normal', text: data.item.examine },
  player: {
    socket_id: this.player.socket_id,
  },
});

And then every time we do Socket.broadcast, to only have to broadcasted to those in the viewport. Because we are not going really broadcast to every single player.

[erickcelio]

I can work on that?

[Ankaa19]

Hello, I would like to work on this issue. Could you assign me? Than you a lot.

[david671-del]

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[david671-del]

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