EVE General Discussion

Really . im sitting in like 6-7 chats .. and i know that other people might sit in even more chat rooms..
and it is VERY confusing keep track on whos trying to communicate with you..

so why is there no highlight function ??
a more colored flash
and a little sound perhaps..
thats all

You're sitting in a station chatting with your corpmates.
You need to run to the loo.
You need to make yourself a cup of tea or coffee or imbibe in some other quick drink.
You need to take medication.
You need to smoke something or other.
Many other mundane reasons to be away from keyboard for a few minutes.

Would it be too much to ask for an "AFK" flag in any channel you happen to be in?

o7

hmmm the channel flashes for me letting me know someone just typed something. I cannot miss it.

The key for me is to not sit in these channels and just play the game. Small talk is for the weak.

Being used to having between 25 and 30 different chats, the last thing I'd want would be more prominent flashing or sounds....

Perhaps if it was configurable on a per-chatroom basis though, it could be usefull to say set a different color on the tab for the intel channel for example.

One thing I would really like to have though is the ability to specify the order of the different tabs in the different chat windows.

Lets get rid of all chat channels and just have ts. Much more civilised if you ask me.

Corporation
Alliance
Coalition
Regional Intel x 8 (more available)
Local
Couple of pubs
Fleet



That is ~15+ chats for me at any given time. Some sort of organizational tools (not anything like the inventory, please) would be nice.

The convo/invite popup windows. Annoying as hell that they get auto-focus.

/c

I'd like to see vertical tabs.

I would like to see specific settings that would make a chat channel more like a intel ticker.

It works OK as it is now, but I feel that Intel could be more formalized than just a chat channel.

For instance, an audio alert like a tick or a bell that would be sound off when intel is updated. Or if a large fleet is spotted, a louder sound could be activated by a channel owner or something.

A specific format would be the only thing able to be entered (system, amount of pilots, nv or shiptyppes), and in order to insert a comment, you would have to go out of your way to "talk" in an intel channel rather than a re-purposed chat channel.

Maybe a customizible format that you have to click something in order to bypass so you could say that the gang has small genetalia or something.

Once upon a time, in a chat channel far far away........

I created a channel called " BTL Pub" ,which , at its height held around 1200 people in it. Now, I'd like to say that among MMO's, Eve Online has a very robust chat system, that being said, managing a channel with THAT many people in it, was quite a headache (literally). Myself, and my channel operators, had a very hard time with certain function's. For instance, when the channel settings tab was open, you can't do anything else, your screen is locked on that setting window. Also, when dealing with the Blocked tab, being able to double click a character to bring up the Show Info screen is awesome, but I'd really like to be able to drop that name into a chat window. When setting someone on the Allowed list to the Operator list, it should just move them there, without having to remove them from the Allowed list first. Being able to import a Blocked List to another channel would be another idea. Much like the "roles" in a corporation, setting some one with an "does everything the channel creator can do" ability would be pure win. Different levels of operator's, like an impossible to be removed operator, except by the creator of course. Possible tool tip's to explain what the moderated/blocked/allowed on the setting's screen do? These are just a few idea's on how to improve an already great chat. I understand that very few channel's have this large membership, but seeing how my channel provided services to over a thousand Incursion pilot's, adding more to the Channel Setting's window, improves the game experience for all involved ,especially the creator/operator's!. While i have have thought of many more feature's, I can't for the life of me think of them at the moment. Thank you for reading this Wall of Text, and fly wreck-less!

♥ Phatt

P.S. I totally agree with what Chribba said. I get 20-30 private convo's everyday, I'm usually typing something in a chat , and having the accept convo window close on me, is highly annoying. I have to hope that they resend the chat invite, otherwise i would never know who did. Unless there is a log i don't know about.

tl;dr - No Channel Setting's window hard-focused, more action's from setting's window to other windows, interactibility from Allowed to Operator list, import list's to other channels, allow role's to be granted to operators, like in corporation's, tool tip's for the different modes, +1 to Chribba's comment.