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RP chat tends to go faster depending on the number of people involved and the red text scrolling it of has a bigger impact on things. It's disruptive and annoying. If you don't think so, more power to you. But, you don't use chat as heavily as I do, clearly. When you're nose deep an a big fight, the chat text is mostly irrelevant. ( Unlike some other MMOs where raid coordination takes more communication ) When you're RPing, the chat text is everything.
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Originally Posted by I Burnt The Toast
Except for the fact that...you know.. I do use chat... just because I am not RPing does not mean the conversations I am having are not game related and/or important to myself as well as others (league).
RP is not the only form of communication which requires people to pay attention. And no...throughout the invasions etc...I did not find it difficult to convey my messages in league or global chan messages. |
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Originally Posted by Tyger42
And what effing part of "trying to chat/rp/etc" didn't you get?
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1. Make your chat box bigger so you the text doesn't scroll out of sight so quickly and it will be easier to follow RP/chat conversations.
2. Edit your chat box tabs so you won't have any extra channels other than the channel you RP/chat in and the unavoidable occasional Admin messages, and you you'll be able to follow the conversations easier.
3. If you are using a global channel for your RP/chat channel, don't use the same color (red) the Admin channels uses.
The spam can be taken to far. I understand they want everyone to see it, but just spamming is not the best way to do it.
For instance, the Nemesis Invasions (and other events), have there own channel for your tabs, that can just be turned off. Dont care about events? Turn it off..you will never hear about them. Looking through my tabs right now, I see that the color for Event Messages looks a lot like the red Admin text. Is it the same, can you remove this and not see admin?
Regardless of the above, a situation came up the other week that really annoyed me. Zwill and HitStreak came on to Freedom, and announced they were going to warburg to pvp. Now that in itself is great I think, some devs who admit pvp is actually here! The problem was, that HitStreak clearly has a love affair with stupid binds, and proceeded to spam a 'Kill Target' bind over and over..on the admin. Instead of, you know, just saying it in WB BROADCAST. Since it only mattered to the people actually pvping them.
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Oooooooor, they could remove the problem themselves by not using the channel that spams every tab of every window with big, bold, red text for every damn tiny little thing during the event. Especially when doing so is totally unnecessary.
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Originally Posted by Forbin_Project
1. Make your chat box bigger so you the text doesn't scroll out of sight so quickly and it will be easier to follow RP/chat conversations.
2. Edit your chat box tabs so you won't have any extra channels other than the channel you RP/chat in and the unavoidable occasional Admin messages, and you you'll be able to follow the conversations easier. 3. If you are using a global channel for your RP/chat channel, don't use the same color (red) the Admin channels uses. |
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Zwill is Nemesis!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Da F ....... Spoiler alert lol
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When a full quarter of my screen is full of Big Red Text, it actually DOES impact my play - It's SO focus-grabbing that I can't look away, particularly when it's constantly scrolling past.|
Originally Posted by Positivity
Lighten up, people. It couldn't possibly interfere with your playstyle THAT much.
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Some way to limit it to one window would be nice - I don't need to see it EVERYWHERE.
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Effing damn
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Originally Posted by Golden Girl
[Admin] Penelope Yin: Hi there Heroes and Villains!!! Starting with the launch of Issue 23, I'll be giving you all regular in-game updates about my life and all the exciting things I'm getting up to in the Freedom Phalanx!! How cool is that?!?
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[Admin] Penelope Yin: Hi there Heroes and Villains!!! Starting with the launch of Issue 23, I'll be giving you all regular in-game updates about my life and all the exciting things I'm getting up to in the Freedom Phalanx!! How cool is that?!?
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On topic, it's times like this I'm glad I play a stalker. I can hide and afk without fear of Nemesis retaliation. Or, I can just duck inside a shop or building.
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This assumes you think invasions as actually being fun.
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Originally Posted by Agent White
Given how infrequently devs drop in to do an event live, I think you can put up with them for the hour or two they're there doing fun stuff for the game like invasions, costume contests, and playing frisbee in atlas park.
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LMAO! see now THAT I wouldn't mind. Spam about an event I have no wish to participate in . . . pass.
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[Admin] Penelope Yin: Hi there Heroes and Villains!!! Starting with the launch of Issue 23, I'll be giving you all regular in-game updates about my life and all the exciting things I'm getting up to in the Freedom Phalanx!! How cool is that?!?
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When it started on Virtue I logged and read a book. Really not interested in yet another invasion. Really, the whole "spawn enemies on you/groups of heroes" thing they seem to use for every new event is old, old old.
That said, a lot of people enjoy them so I don't expect them to change. If they didn't spam all 4 of my chat tabs during the events then I wouldn't have had to log out, though.
I personally don't mind the announcement and ending, but constant chatter should be limited to the zone it's in, and I know they can do that...
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I have nothing against the events themselves and in no way want them to reduce/stop them. It's just the ADMIN spam that irritates the @$%^ out of me. And they could easily do the events without it.
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Originally Posted by Psychoti
When it started on Virtue I logged and read a book. Really not interested in yet another invasion. Really, the whole "spawn enemies on you/groups of heroes" thing they seem to use for every new event is old, old old.
That said, a lot of people enjoy them so I don't expect them to change. If they didn't spam all 4 of my chat tabs during the events then I wouldn't have had to log out, though. |
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Originally Posted by Tyger42
chat that I've missed during RP?
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The devs do this for the same reason they terb off badgers with pvp zones.
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Originally Posted by Acemace
And there it is.
The devs do this for the same reason they terb off badgers with pvp zones. . |
hehe nice thought. I mean, badgers get upset from new day job badges and pvp badges, people who are all about (SG) Bases are upset because bases haven't been touched in 'forever'; pvp'ers are upset because....well, who knows...I mean, "lulz pvp amirite?"
(<3)So how can they nudge/poke and prod RP'ers? Not touching AE is a bit too subtle...admin channel spam is the perfect passive-aggressive technique!
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As far as the actual topic; I agree that admin channel spam should be reserved for the following:
1.) (physical) Server events: ie, server rebooting, going down for maintenance, etc...
2.) In-game event beginning and possibly the end of the event. Just say, "hey x event will be happening over here at y time. And then at the end of the event just say, "Event over, thanks everyone!"
That's about it I think...now do I get upset at the chat spam? Usually no because I don't see it all that much (hooray Low-pop server?
) but I can see the OP's point.
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I'm pretty sure this sums up the OP's desire as Admin should be for administrative content, not chatter. Place Event chatter in the Event channel (there IS such a channel right?).
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Originally Posted by Memphis_Bill
Think you missed the OP's point...
There's event-specific chat that *doesn't* spam all the channels. I'm fairly sure what he's asking for is for live events and non-vital chat (such as: ) to be moved to *that* and for Admin to be left to "Emergency maintenance, server going down in one minute, eject, eject, eject!" |
Makes me glad I play on a low population server that the devs ignore.
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Makes me glad I play on a low population server that the devs ignore.
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[Admin] Penelope Yin: Hi there Heroes and Villains!!! Starting with the launch of Issue 23, I'll be giving you all regular in-game updates about my life and all the exciting things I'm getting up to in the Freedom Phalanx!! How cool is that?!?
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The devs for doing this, or you for giving them the idea.
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I meant the devs running live events and using the admin channel for chatter. They rarely run live events on the low population servers in my experience, so it isn't as much of an issue.
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They appear on all the servers
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That's really the crux of the problem, isn't it? The Admin messages should be reserved for important, critical, must-see information. Not some random Dev trying to RP Nemesis.
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Originally Posted by I Burnt The Toast
See big red announcement...read it ..make sure it's not like "servers are going down..." and continue to play.
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I agree that the Admin channel should be used for announcements and critical warnings only. If an event is starting, announce it in Admin, then swap to the appropriate event channel. If you need participation, announce it periodically. So long as the actual chatter doesn't bleed into the Admin channel, I have no problem with it.
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Originally Posted by Arcanaville
Samuel_Tow is the only poster that makes me want to punch him in the head more often when I'm agreeing with him than when I'm disagreeing with him.
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RP is not the only form of communication which requires people to pay attention. And no...throughout the invasions etc...I did not find it difficult to convey my messages in league or global chan messages.
Maybe you should have... RPed the event into your conversation....