Team search colors again? A source page in the Wiki perhaps?
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Posted on: 2010-10-11 18:35 in Player Questions
I was looking for this last night too.
http://paragonwiki.com/wiki/Search_Window
Under "Search Results"
Still think they overcomplicated this a bit. Especially without a nice, "right there" in game key. I get plenty of tells while on teams, in missions and the like... which should be "obvious" with the colors - except nobody knows what they mean.
Filters would help, too - and really, do we have to have "origin" in there?
Also see the Patch notes
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I think there should be a little "?" button to click on the search window that explains what the colors mean.
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Well they probably cannot decide on what colour it would be
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Originally Posted by Golden Girl
I think there should be a little "?" button to click on the search window that explains what the colors mean.
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Originally Posted by golden girl
i think there should be a little "?" button to click on the search window that explains what the colors mean.
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The colours are great! The colours can be of use! But if the ONLY way to know what they mean is to have the page open on another screen or alt tab, they are USELESS. How's a new player supposed to know what purple means? I have not seen anything in game that informs/reminds you. I have seen the list a dozen times, and I still cant remember what 80% of the colours mean when I start a game session!
Edit; also, made a suggestion some time ago
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It would be far easier if those you could team with would show up in green. Those you cannot team with show up in red. And for those on a team that you could team with, let them show up in yellow.
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Yes, but green text is used for chatter in your "team" channel, so it makes sense to have consistency there. And red in the search channel has always been the color for people not looking for a team: changing that would potentially make it even more confusing.|
Originally Posted by Transhade
It would be far easier if those you could team with would show up in green. Those you cannot team with show up in red. And for those on a team that you could team with, let them show up in yellow.
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Really, they just need a pop up to happen when hover your cursor over a name, or to have a help button, as previously suggested. That way it's easy to figure out and there are no more issues.
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Originally Posted by Memphis_Bill
Still think they overcomplicated this a bit. Especially without a nice, "right there" in game key. I get plenty of tells while on teams, in missions and the like... which should be "obvious" with the colors - except nobody knows what they mean.
Filters would help, too - and really, do we have to have "origin" in there? |
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This is like having Ra's Al Ghul show up at your birthday party.
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I like that even more than the "?" button. It'd provide very direct, obvious feedback.
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Originally Posted by Grey Pilgrim
Really, they just need a pop up to happen when hover your cursor over a name
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The last thing I need when perusing the list is a giant legend popping up whenever I mouse over the list of names. I would prefer the ? button that opens a window that I can move and hope that it will always re-open in that place forever after. Or maybe an extendable (and closeable) panel on the search window with the legend on it that opens to the side of the window.
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Originally Posted by Sardan
I like that even more than the "?" button. It'd provide very direct, obvious feedback.
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But 98.32% of all mutant origin avatars in CoH are called xX\/\/01v3r1n3Xx so you don't really need the origin list to help you avoid teaming with mutants.
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Originally Posted by SwellGuy
Yes! To avoid teaming with filthy mutants.
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I run up to 6 machines in this house and the colors show up differently from one to the next. At this point, the colors I see ingame are nowhere near what the patch notes showed.
A "?" would be a godsend.
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Actually, even better than a "?" button would be a permanent strip at the top or bottom of the window showing what the colors meant.
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On another thread, I proposed getting rid of the "origin" column and replacing it with something to indicate team/invite status.
I agree with most of the posters on this thread and I think something "really ought" to be done. The Find Member dialog is harder to use that it really needs to be.
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A pop up would not need to be instantaneous. It could work like pop ups work for recipes now: if you hold the cursor over it long enough, you get the pop up with recipe information. If you're just mousing over the list quick or something, it wouldn't pop up.|
Originally Posted by NekoNeko
The last thing I need when perusing the list is a giant legend popping up whenever I mouse over the list of names. I would prefer the ? button that opens a window that I can move and hope that it will always re-open in that place forever after. Or maybe an extendable (and closeable) panel on the search window with the legend on it that opens to the side of the window.
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Anyone know who we need to poke to get the right dev to look in here? Might send this Ocho's way, and he can pass it on. Changing this is a good idea.
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Okay, searching Paragonwiki not only fails to lead me to some listing of what the new team search function colors mean, it doesn't even turn up any likely-looking clues. And searching on Issues 18, 17, 16 and 15 don't seemt o contain it either, at least not with any headings I recognize as pertaining to team search colors.
I could dig back through the patch notes on the main site, but I know this has to have been summarized in the Wiki somewhere. Can anyone point me to it?
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