Steelpoint Posted January 25, 2017 Share Posted January 25, 2017 Renegade X is a very team oriented game where a good level of team coordination can significantly change the tide of a battle. With this in mind, I find the current 'team chat' system to be lacking. Right now if you communicate in team chat, you're text appears in you're factions colour, red for NOD and gold for GDI. While this serves the basic need of showing that you're talking in team, and not all chat, but the big issue is that you're text is placed alongside every other team generic/spot message. It can be difficult for players to notice a player communicating in between the large amount of messages about 'Defend the Harvester!' or 'Repair the Power Plant!' messages. With that in mind I think that team chat options need to be more visually distinct and easier to notice in comparison to the generic messages very often given. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wrench Posted January 25, 2017 Share Posted January 25, 2017 yea, also the surrender vote should be in another color too, since some didnt even saw the vote because they thought that it was just a regulary vote Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sn4ke Posted January 25, 2017 Share Posted January 25, 2017 (edited) Team Survey should have another colour too Edited January 25, 2017 by DarkSn4ke Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Axesor Posted January 25, 2017 Share Posted January 25, 2017 6 hours ago, Steelpoint said: It can be difficult for players to notice a player communicating in between the large amount of messages about 'Defend the Harvester!' or 'Repair the Power Plant!' messages. Radio or radio spam is kind of communication too. Radio spam often means something important with high priority. If you think that your written message has high priority, just spam too.. on your own constience, and respinsibility.. same as radio or radio spam. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Totem Arts Staff yosh56 Posted January 25, 2017 Totem Arts Staff Share Posted January 25, 2017 I also always thought radio might need to be a slightly different colour though... Maybe. I can generally parse through it easily, but then again I've been doing this for 15 years. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steelpoint Posted January 25, 2017 Author Share Posted January 25, 2017 For attentive/veteran players its not a big deal, but newer players, or simply anyone who's very preoccupied with a task no matter their skill, may and will miss information/communication being given by other team members. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Agent Posted January 25, 2017 Share Posted January 25, 2017 I wouldn't mind just italicizing automatic/radio messages. This is actually how they're distinguished when getting logged to IRC. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vandal33 Posted January 25, 2017 Share Posted January 25, 2017 Spamming needs to be limited or removed. Radio chat is important, but it drowns important message if some irresponsible players spams it. I don't want renegadex to be a spam competition since everybody has something important to say. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
djlaptop Posted January 26, 2017 Share Posted January 26, 2017 In old Ren, there was a buffer where you could go back and scroll through chats that you miss. If I'm on the purchase terminal for 10-15 seconds, I may miss something important with no way to go back to see it. Would be great to have some way to see the last 5 minutes of chat. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sn4ke Posted January 26, 2017 Share Posted January 26, 2017 open console with ö [german QWERTZ keyboard...] and you can read the chat or at lest some... it's console type.. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KrypTheBear Posted January 26, 2017 Share Posted January 26, 2017 If it wouldn't make the chat look too convoluted I'd say just split the chat into two windows, a common, disableable chat window for anything actually written by players, and a second window for radio messages. The idea of italics or a different color for radio/normal messages sounds good too. 2 minutes ago, DarkSn4ke said: open console with ö [german QWERTZ keyboard...] and you can read the chat or at lest some... it's console type.. ~ (tilde) for QWERTY, but honestly reading chat in the console is ass. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sn4ke Posted January 26, 2017 Share Posted January 26, 2017 16 minutes ago, KrypTheBear said: ~ (tilde) for QWERTY, but honestly reading chat in the console is ass. idd, but if there's nothing else the regular player can use. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Xtractor Posted January 26, 2017 Share Posted January 26, 2017 (edited) What ever is done please avoid the red color .I have Big difficulty to read in this color Edited January 26, 2017 by Xtractor 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Profane Pagan Posted January 26, 2017 Share Posted January 26, 2017 43 minutes ago, Xtractor said: What ever is done please avoid the red color .I have i Big difficulty to read in this color So true! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Totem Arts Staff yosh56 Posted January 26, 2017 Totem Arts Staff Share Posted January 26, 2017 4 hours ago, djlaptop said: In old Ren, there was a buffer where you could go back and scroll through chats that you miss. If I'm on the purchase terminal for 10-15 seconds, I may miss something important with no way to go back to see it. Would be great to have some way to see the last 5 minutes of chat. So apparently the entire chat history is in the 'Chat' menu when you hit escape... I'm just now learning this from a video >_> Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hohndo Posted January 26, 2017 Share Posted January 26, 2017 47 minutes ago, yosh56 said: So apparently the entire chat history is in the 'Chat' menu when you hit escape... I'm just now learning this from a video >_> I was just going to mention this lol Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steelpoint Posted January 26, 2017 Author Share Posted January 26, 2017 Perhaps underlying, italicising and/or bolding player text would go a ways to make player typed communications more prominate. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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