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Dradius Calvantia
Lip Shords
#1 - 2011-11-30 05:25:38 UTC  |  Edited by: Dradius Calvantia
Who the hell at CCP decided that the fleet broadcast info now has to be 800 characters long, with the only important information at the very end of the line?

<02:34> Fleet Notification: (Broadcast) Dradius Clavantia Politely Request That The Fleet Belonging To Dradius Calvantia Do Their Best To Eventually, After Spending Five Minuets Reading This, Align To The TXW-EI Stargate.

Seriously, no one wants to stretch their fleet broadcast window across the entire screen just to be able to see the important information that was previously conveyed in a reasonable amount of space. This is TERRIBLE game design, and a good example of CCP employees not taking the time to understand how what they are working on is actually used in game.
King Rothgar
Deadly Solutions
#2 - 2011-11-30 05:30:12 UTC
Indeed, dumbest change I've seen in a while. Please revert it back immediately (as in hotfix at dt today).

[u]Fireworks and snowballs are great, but what I really want is a corpse launcher.[/u]
Dradius Calvantia
Lip Shords
#3 - 2011-11-30 05:42:22 UTC
Sigh... between this, the ****** up map, and the last minute dictor nerf I think my outlook on this patch has considerably soured.
Zagdul
Federal Navy Academy
Gallente Federation
#4 - 2011-11-30 06:03:46 UTC
Zagdul: Target Drake
Zagdul: Align Jita
Zagdul: Enemy Spotted
Zagdul: Needs Shields

That's all that needs to be there.

Dual Pane idea: Click!

CCP Please Implement
Crosi Wesdo
War and Order
#5 - 2011-11-30 12:42:13 UTC
Didnt notice this, too busy trying to fix my overview and font and failing due to scaling artefacts and unruly windows jumping around the screen. But yes, this has to be changed right away.
Victor Valka
Insterstellar Mining and Manufacturing
#6 - 2011-11-30 12:44:33 UTC
Right-aligned fields make Baby Raptor Jesus Cry
Barakkus
#7 - 2011-11-30 12:48:29 UTC  |  Edited by: Barakkus
I noticed this too last night, it would be great if the broadcast text could be nice and short again at the bottom of the fleet window.

On the other hand, having the little icon of what type of broadcast was made in the watch list was a nice addition. You can actually hover over the icon and see the full broadcast text from there.

http://youtu.be/yytbDZrw1jc
Elly Alland
Doomheim
#8 - 2011-11-30 19:49:11 UTC
I agree, dumbest and most inconvinient change ever....
Dradius Calvantia
Lip Shords
#9 - 2011-11-30 20:11:10 UTC
Bumping to make sure CCP sees this...
Rixiu
PonyTek
#10 - 2011-11-30 20:17:56 UTC
Zagdul wrote:
Zagdul: Target Drake
Zagdul: Align Jita
Zagdul: Enemy Spotted
Zagdul: Needs Shields

That's all that needs to be there.


This! The pre-patch lacked the broadcasters name but all the need to do is make it just like this. Maybe timestamp too... Here's an idea, let us choose the columns, that would be sweet :)
ACY GTMI
Veerhouven Group
#11 - 2011-11-30 23:22:03 UTC
Zagdul wrote:
Zagdul: Target Drake
Zagdul: Align Jita
Zagdul: Enemy Spotted
Zagdul: Needs Shields

That's all that needs to be there.


This would be perfect.

I posted in the Issues thread about it. Who knows?
CCP Masterplan
C C P
C C P Alliance
#12 - 2011-12-01 16:36:42 UTC
Looking into this. We can probably eliminate some of that excess wordage

"This one time, on patch day..."

@ccp_masterplan  |  Team Five-0: Rewriting the law
Xtover
Cold Moon Destruction.
#13 - 2011-12-01 16:40:30 UTC  |  Edited by: Xtover
CCP Masterplan wrote:
Looking into this. We can probably eliminate some of that excess wordage

Xtover would like to express written gratitude towards CCP Masterplan for looking into the matter.
Dradius Calvantia
Lip Shords
#14 - 2011-12-01 16:48:05 UTC
Thanks for letting us know you are looking into this.
drakk3n
Republic Military School
Minmatar Republic
#15 - 2011-12-01 17:05:21 UTC
Ah yes the wording for the align.

I laughed at the wording - and so did the fleet I was in.
Averyia
Garoun Investment Bank
Gallente Federation
#16 - 2011-12-01 17:13:52 UTC
This is an example of a programmer playing a joke but forgetting to change it back, and QA not catching it.

Means, that somewhere along the line, someone(s) didn't do there job right.

All warfare is based on deception and logistics. Battles and soldiers are secondary priorities.