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In-game chat is messy vol.II (system messages)

Discussion in 'Suggestions / Ideas' started by BarryX15, August 6, 2012.

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is suggested combination good?

  1. yes

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  2. maybe

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  3. no

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  1. BarryX15

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    Yeah, merely four months after this - http://imdeity.com/threads/in-game-chat-is-messy.10258/ - and i make stir again.

    At first, i want to thank our admins because they removed useless death messages from chat and made other good tweaks too.

    At second, i want to put in some more tweaks, mainly to system messages colors. There is cyan, bright white, orange and mainly yellow - these colors belong elsewhere. We should use just coral red, lime green and dark and light grey.
    Suggested changes:
    - brackets [ and ] will be in dark grey instead of light grey
    - player/town names will be light grey instead of yellow
    - numbers, scores and other important parts will be in lime green instead of light grey
    - hint messages will be in lime green and light grey instead of red, yellow and white
    - less important parts of text will be in dark grey
    - non-color tweak is change of some texts, to make them shorter and hopefully occupy less lines in chat.
    The goal is to make these messages looking uniform and using other colors then the rest of chat. So yellow help channel and white global chat will be more visible.

    See image - upper part is current, lower part is suggestion.

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    BarryX15, August 6, 2012
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    I really like the idea of trying to simplify chat, but I have to say that the way chat is setup right now, it is a lot easier to scan and pick out the parts that you want to read than the lower window. The lower window has too many similar colors for my taste.
     
    Aefroyms, August 6, 2012
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    I agree with Barry. I also suggest that the system messages, such as [*ImDeity*] and [DeityBan] and [Vote] be grouped into their own chat family, if you will, so that if we /leave that channel, the whole family goes too...

    The color scheme (or the lack thereof) across the many different system message types makes for very confusing reading, in my honest opinion.
     
    nolarboot, August 6, 2012
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  4. BarryX15

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    The thing is, in my suggestion they form one solid block, but in chat they will be spread sparsely among player talk. So uniform look will make them more recognizable.
     
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    Personally, I don't like the red and green mix. It just looks to christmas-y for me.
     
    Harry_C, August 6, 2012
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    I think the point is less the color, and more the uniformity.
     
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    I think that it won't hurt to delete any of these texts:
    - Lottery (I don't care how many ticket someone bought, some people even spam with it).
    - Citizens online
    - Top lists: Deityspleef/Towns

    But the colors are fine for me, I think it's better as it is now than your suggestion. That's because I don't distinguish a difference between those messages, I would like some more colors (as we have now) and don't see a need in changing those.
    I myself wear contact lenses (or glasses) and light sources (like the laptop screen) always demands more energy from my eyes. It's better not to make them work even harder.
    So I don't think the 'uniform' color idea is good.

    Also think about the ones being colorblind.. green/red isn't the best combination for that, hihi.
     
    Arwenden, August 6, 2012
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  8. BarryX15

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    Just a small point before i will think about it more complex - we can get rid of those messages or make them "invisible" by lack of colors, but we can agree that we dont need to see most of those messages :)
     
    BarryX15, August 6, 2012
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    In place of the potential chatspam the lottery promises, would it not be better to have the lottery do what all the other chats do, and merely push a notification each hour or so, alerting us to how much money is in the pot? That would clear up a lot of problems, in my opinion.
     
    nolarboot, August 6, 2012
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    We were actually talking about this, Itll be difficult to do now, however we have plans to do it in the future...​
     
    vanZeben, August 6, 2012
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    Lord_Aquarius, August 6, 2012
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    I like it. While chat does work for me now, this suggestion would be a good idea when it comes to neatness. However, perhaps the color scheme could be toned down a bit. It isn't exactly pleasant to look at with all of the similarly grouped,bright colors.
     
    64bitvolvo, August 6, 2012
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    LOl i did suggest this and people said it was easy to read stop complaining.......

    But good job you made my old idea better :D
     
    ngennaro, August 7, 2012
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    i wish we could just turn it off all together withouth pressing f1. colors or none when the kiddies start talking about ponies i loose all interest...
     
    brad32164, August 12, 2012
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    i like the idea, big servers need good chat systems
     
    legoazurp, August 15, 2012
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