[Scribia-dev] How hard would this be?

[<alc...@cl...>]

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I just got a cool idea, and I'm wondering how hard it would be.

When the CL client is running it receives and sends data packets.

My idea has to do with the outbound info, and it might even be 
applescriptable or something.

Sometimes a player runs 2 copies of the CL client at once. Like Rkda 
and Kard sometimes go on a hunt together, one controller, 2 clients 
running. I do this sometimes too.

How hard would it be to have everything sent by one client mirrored 
and also sent by the other client as well?

That way it would be easier to have 2 char's run with a group, or run 
away from danger. You would be watching both characters from one of 
the character's perspective, so you have to get good at not letting 
them get out of each other's view, especially at snell crossings and 
such.

Perhaps you could hit esc or shift or something to break and 
re-establish the echoing, so that you could keep you characters 
together more easily.

An even lower-tech solution would be to make a patch to one of the 
copies of the client so that it does not stop tracking mouse movement 
when it is in the background. That way the patched client will echo 
mouse movement only, and both characters won't be speaking 
simultaneously etc.

any thoughts on this?

how hard would it be and what approach would you take to do something 
like this, if anyone has an interest?

Alchemist