More Chat Bubble Control Please
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BayBlast,
Posted on: 2009-05-15 11:59 in ALL ACCESS Gameplay Technical Issues Bugs
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I have all the chat bubble control I could ever want or need: Disable chat bubbles 
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Please bring back chat balloon control.
BTW, it's been since i12 when the chat code was revamped to include individual name colors and clickable text... which is a little over a year now.
Since customization of characters is a focus right now, please don't forget that character customization was seriously damaged by the loss of chat bubble control over "Border Color", Background Opacity" and "Text Scale"
Please note that something valuable was taken away, Dev Team.
Since customization is the focus of the latest Dev Diary by BAB, I want to bump this again as a reminder that this needs some TLC.
What was taken away was a real loss to some of the player population in terms of character customization. I have characters with multiple personality issues that I will not play again until I can make those personalities have their own voices again.
Can we see some attention to this? 
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Since customization of characters is a focus right now, please don't forget that character customization was seriously damaged by the loss of chat bubble control over "Border Color", Background Opacity" and "Text Scale"
Please note that something valuable was taken away, Dev Team.
Since customization is the focus of the latest Dev Diary by BAB, I want to bump this again as a reminder that this needs some TLC.
What was taken away was a real loss to some of the player population in terms of character customization. I have characters with multiple personality issues that I will not play again until I can make those personalities have their own voices again.
Can we see some attention to this?
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You might have better luck getting this seen by posting it in the Suggestions and Ideas forum. Or whatever it's called lately. I try to avoid that area personally.
If the game spit out 20 dollar bills people would complain that they weren't sequentially numbered. If they were sequentially numbered people would complain that they weren't random enough.
Black Pebble is my new hero.
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Since customization of characters is a focus right now, please don't forget that character customization was seriously damaged by the loss of chat bubble control over "Border Color", Background Opacity" and "Text Scale"
Please note that something valuable was taken away, Dev Team.
Since customization is the focus of the latest Dev Diary by BAB, I want to bump this again as a reminder that this needs some TLC.
What was taken away was a real loss to some of the player population in terms of character customization. I have characters with multiple personality issues that I will not play again until I can make those personalities have their own voices again.
Can we see some attention to this?
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You might have better luck getting this seen by posting it in the Suggestions and Ideas forum. Or whatever it's called lately. I try to avoid that area personally.
[/ QUOTE ] whow about that.. BayBlast said the same thing a month ago..
.. I don't think the OP gets the picture. lol
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I have all the chat bubble control I could ever want or need: Disable chat bubbles
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This. Srsly.
The OP is perfectly aware of the choice of forum placement.
This is not a suggestion for new functionality. This is exposition of a mistake in taking away old functionality.
See?
Taking away this control was about stopping spamming right?
Well this change did not stop the spam did it?
So the spammers have doubly wounded those of us just trying to enjoy our game. They get social features nerfed, and still get to spam.
For the record, I have been, am and will continue to be angry over this creativity nerf .
Time for another bump of the old bring back the chat bubble color control thread.
Okay, let me put this a different way.
If you look at the front page of the forums, the description under Technical Issues and Bugs reads as follows:
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Discuss technical questions and/or bugs here! This is NOT a forum where official technical/QA support is available. To report a bug use the /bug command in game. For technical assistance email support@coh.com.
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So, you are basically asking players for help in fixing this. We can't fix it for you.
If you want it seen by a Dev, PM them or put it in a forum where they might see it, such as the Suggestions forum.
If the game spit out 20 dollar bills people would complain that they weren't sequentially numbered. If they were sequentially numbered people would complain that they weren't random enough.
Black Pebble is my new hero.
Thankyou for your input Texas justice. While I respect your opinion on the matter, my interpretation of the description of the forum is not the same as yours. I will point out that this forum resides in the "Development" section. Are you "Development"? I don't think so, so this forum being in the "Development" section would seem to suggest that the forum is about what? ...thats right... Development. I do not believe as you do that this forum is merely for players to correct each others issues as you suggest. Now whether or not it is looked at or payed attention to by the "Development" team is another matter, but this is the best forum, in my understanding, that fits.
I consider this a technical issue regarding something that exists or existed that needs to be corrected, and not as much a suggestion for something new that needs to be created. This is not a just a good idea for something new. This is exposition of something that has gone wrong with "Development's" decision making process, and that to me is an "Issue". An isue that should, I believe, be handled in the "Development" section of the forums.
This is something I consider to have been broken that needs to be fixed.
As for the other courses of action you suggest, yes those are being pursued as well.
Trust me, I am not thick, just determined. you are free to ignore the thread at your convenience if it disturbs you. The thread however is "Functioning as intended".
Best,
-=ICE=-
Fine. Consider yourself to be on my ignore list.
If the game spit out 20 dollar bills people would complain that they weren't sequentially numbered. If they were sequentially numbered people would complain that they weren't random enough.
Black Pebble is my new hero.
This is not the place for this. this belongs in the Suggestions and Ideas section. I suggest you have a mod move it for you. Arguing with people is not going to get you anywhere but on peoples ignore lists. Grow up and act like the adult that you are suppossed to be.
And just to point out, I don't have any problems with the chat bubble, any color I choose it to be it is.
Choose it to be three sets of colors for three separate voices within one character. You cannot do this.
Choose the border to be a different color at any time. Could you do this before, yes, Can you now, no.
Choose to change the size of the text. Could you shoose to do this before, yes. Can you do it now, no.
Choose the styling to be different in your binds and or macros. Could you do this before? Yes. Can you accomplish this now, no.
Again this is not just a good idea, it is something that has been wrongfully taken away and I would like to see it addressed.
People's ignore lists do not concern me.
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Further, the choice to eliminate any HTML coding capabilties has eliminated the ability to load key binds from files and not have the keys with color bindings show the code instead of the appropriatesly styled text.
This decision broke that functionality. Start a new character, save the clean virgin set of keybinds of the new character to keybinds.txt, and then reload them with the controls in options. Hit your F7. You will see what I mean.
This problem is well over a year old now, and is being ignored.
I mean to give it exposure in the location that I see as appropriate. If anyone has a problem with that, my sympathies.
I will say this as clearly as possible.
I am not going to be begging for this like it is something new in Suggestions. What I will be doing is addressing this as what I see it as, a request of Development to no longer ignore this and arrive at a solution to an issue that was created when functionality was BROKEN.
Any players may say anything further that they wish, and I will not respond, but I will not stop talking about this until it is addressed as an ISSUE.
Thanks,
-=ICE=-
Changing the code so you can use them again = suggestion
The functionality was not "BROKEN", it was taken away.. like you said. There is a BIG difference. New codes were added to the game, and I can accept partial responsibility for finding and reporting an exploit regarding the <> commands which resulted in them being disabled shortly after i12. The fact that previously functioning commands no longer work is not a bug... just an unfortunate consequence.
2 months in this forum.. How's that working for you?
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You know, you may have a point there but I'm just not seeing it.
If the game spit out 20 dollar bills people would complain that they weren't sequentially numbered. If they were sequentially numbered people would complain that they weren't random enough.
Black Pebble is my new hero.
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2 months in this forum.. How's that working for you?
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Pretty well apparently. The Devs are posting here with ringing endorsements of his postings.
/sarcasmoff
If the game spit out 20 dollar bills people would complain that they weren't sequentially numbered. If they were sequentially numbered people would complain that they weren't random enough.
Black Pebble is my new hero.
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While I respect your opinion on the matter, my interpretation of the description of the forum is not the same as yours.
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Then your interpretation is wrong.
The aspect of the chat bubble's controls that are broken, and they are indeed broken, belong to this forum, since it's a bug. And this is the forum to report and discuss bugs.
Suggestions for additional functionality belong in the Suggestions Forum.
That's all that's needed to be said.
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Since I13, for the last six months the player community has done wtihout control over some aspects of chat balloons and text formatting that were widely used.
These are border color, color opacity, and text scale.
Can we see the return of these functions please in the form of sliders in the options screen similar to the text color and background color sliders?
This is not a game where we can hear. We have to look at a chat balloon to get a sense of what someone sounds like.
Border styling is widely used in graphic novels to signify the way a character sounds.
Scale or text size is clearly indicates when someone is shouting or whispering.
Opacity could even have a limit to how transparent it will allow the user to make any of the elements, say 75% to maintain readability. Slider controls for opacity should be applied to all three aspects.
Some method of building the specific "VOICE" of the character into binds and macros for one button catch phrases also needs to make some sort of return.
Since the departure of those aspects, my ability to convey characters' personalities and voices has been diminished, and I would like to see a solution to this please.
Thanks for your time,
-=ICE=-