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GM Rikoo
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Posted: 29 Nov 2014 at 21:36 |
Continued developments from the Ministry of Mildly Related Things! More from this new, unreleased feature that's taking far too long to implement, the same area where the real-time combat feed and the Player and Town Growth Graphs have come from. It's contextual chat info and it comes in two varieties! Mentions By default we select the normal and lower case versions of your name (or just lower case if its all lowercase) to act as the items that trigger chat lines to highlight: However you can completely customize what highlights chat, if you have some nicknames or other terms you want to highlight; or you can completely remove them altogether. You access this via the Character Name page of Account & Preferences: At the bottom you will see "Chat Highlighting Terms" where you can add and remove items: As you can see above there is GM Rikoo in upper and lower case; but for this example I have also added GM in three varieties. The blue arrows point to spaces so rather than just highlighting when the letters GM are used anywhere in a word (though unlikely), it will only highlight when preceded by, followed by or has a space at the start and end - which may help with initials. Also circled in red are the terms gold and orc, so these will also trigger the highlight. A use for this may be your alliance ticker so it will highlight when your alliance is mentioned. The selected terms are per device/user (user+browser+computer) not per account so if you log into your alt or sitter swap you will have the same list and they won't have your list. Alliance Relationship Highlighting The other type of chat highlighting is a color indicator at the start of the chat line if you are in an alliance and your alliance has a diplomatic relationship with that player's alliance. This will show NAP, Confed and War indicators as below: Other Tweaks
We hope you enjoy these enhancements! Leave any comments or questions below! GM Rikoo
Edited by GM ThunderCat - 29 Nov 2014 at 23:19 |
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Eons
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I'M UP THERE!!!!
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Eons
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AND THANK YOU!!!!
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Rill
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Please make the alliance relationship highlighting thing go away. If I don't already know what alliance someone is in, I can easily determine that by clicking on their name. I have no desire to see everyone categorized by what my alliance's relationship with them is.
At minimum, give us the option to turn this "feature" off. Thanks!
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Consul Zynot
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^^ i like the feature but i agree with rill an option to turn it off will be nice
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Berde
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THANK YOU for putting an OFF button on the pink personal name highlighting. An option to turn off the green/yellow/blue would be nice.
In AC, especially, the blue is overdone and unnecessary. I logged in to an entire line of solid blue down AC Chat, and now it's a dashed line because it's just me and someone else talking. If they're in my AC, I'm pretty sure that I know they're in my Alliance and don't need a blue line to determine that. The color bars in GC are just really, really distracting. I don't know if anyone else finds it that way, or maybe it's only that way for someone with ADHD, but I more or less found it instantly to be a visual distraction. The re-vamp of the Notification's page? AWESOME. I can now read that without squinting. I really appreciate the larger type.
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Eons
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No More Salmon! LOL!
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Alcie
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The chat colors are fun....Although mainly my alliance has just been tormenting each other with them so far xD
I agree that putting alliance-relation-colors in the options would be nice instead of forcing them on everyone. Choosing 'which' color for both types of highlighting would be nice too if possible. |
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Berde
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Thanks for removing the long blue streak in AC :)
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Brandmeister
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Wow. The Notifications change is nearly unreadable. I used to be able to get a sense of things on one page, but now I'm just scrolling and scrolling and scrolling.
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