Feat: PDA Messenging

[Mnemotechnician]

Description

This is a draft for a project I started in the summer and ended up abandoning for months, bringing text messaging into ss14, and giving the tiders a place to use NetSpeak!

I cannot guarantee that I will finish this anywhere until late-january/february 2025, because I have uni stuff to do, and I'm going to be busy throughout the December.

TODO

• Basic framework
• Message servers
  • Currently, telecomm servers double up as pda messaging servers.
  • Servers store data about their clients, handle connections, store and route messages, etc
  • Anonymous server messages and system messages
  • Telecomm relays (a special kind of server that delegates all functions to another server)
• Message clients
  • Each client has an ID associated with it, and a preferred name (possibly will be used for nicknames in the future)
  • IDs should be round-unique, and names should be messaging server-unique
  • PDA cartridges
    • Require installation into a PDA. When installed, will set their preferred name from the owner of the PDA, or appear as anonymous if not held by a mob.
    • Store their own list of recipients. You can pair two pdas by using one of them on the other.
    • Can send messages and receive messages
    • Send a notification when receiving a new message
    • ???
  • Stationary messaging consoles
    • Should be able to see all messages, delete them at will, track PDA owners regardless of their preferred name
    • Should be located in the bridge of most stations (a console board should be put in captain's locker to skip the mapping part of it) and on the listening outpost (this one should be relayed to the station)
• UI
  • Cartridges
    • Barebones UI copied from popular messaging apps
    • Proper UI that doesn't fucking BREAK
  • Stationary consoles
• Admin commands
  • ????

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[AgentePanela]

sooo cool i want see this!!

[bruhmogus]

THE ONE DRAFT!! THE ONE DRAFT IS REAL!!!

[Mnemotechnician]

Welp, delta-v now has their own pda messaging from what I heard, I will be closing this for now because this is shitcode