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That'd be damn nice as well.

Replying to dev blogs is like talking to a supermodel. You do your best to compliment her good looks, and give helpful suggestions that she might need to gain some weight for her own healths sake. You know at best she'll ignore you, but there's always the chance she get offended somehow and kick you in the nabs.

Sorry if you feel insulted man, that was posted in a super-cheeky way, I assumed people would reply more like this:

Edit; especially since I posted it so fast after my previous posts! It would've been crazy if you actually managed to respond that fast, then I'd be mighty impressed, haha.

I just wanted to say, I used this last night to turn off blink on one of my annoying-but-required channels. *\o/*

Have you considered removing the width restriction on the chat part of the channel so we can resize down to just the member list? I want the free intel of local, not the spam. Thanks.

Just logged into the game and noticed the new channel icons:

Open Channel Window button is off by 1 pixel to the top, which lets it look weird.

While the new icons look very nice (I like this steel / metal iconic style), I wonder why their size is not equal.

The Channel Settings button fits inside the background highlight, but the Member List Setting is over the border by 1 pixel to the left and right. Shouldn't all the icons be equal in size and have a slight padding to the border of their "box" (their highlighted background).

Same for the black background when a button is clicked. Why not let it have the same size as the previously mentioned box? I personally think it looks off, when the icon is larger then its box.

Can you please replace the Decrease font size and Increase font size with icons that match this cool style of the new icons?

Last comment: While the Highlight my messages feature could be useful (though I honestly miss the use case behind that feature - you got one?), it would be more useful to highlight lines (or just the name) when a line contains the players name as it is typically done in IRC clients (someone else mentioned this in another thread already).

Keep up the good work!

As in type on a playstation? LoL , hope you added button to completely ignore the trash in our channels.

Agreed. I can't even tell mine IS highlighted
would be nice to have it change my text to yellow or orange or pink, or...PURPLE!

TL;DR:

Not all chats consist of less than 10 characters per line, not all chats consist of 3 lines, and new ones happen often. stop meddling with what's not broken. You're making me take more time to do what I should be able to set as a default anyway.



Please tell me you're [insert string of expletives here] kidding.

I have all my chat windows in two sets of tabbed and pinned windows on the bottom of the screen, minimum height. As such, I set all my windows to compact member list text only (none of those irritating icons you people love so much). Every time I get a private chat, join a fleet, or open a new chat channel temporarily (because I don't always need to be in every channel at the same time, some only matter in some circumstances) I add it to one of the tabbed and pinned groups and with a right click and two left clicks set it to compact member list and text only. This happens often, multiple times per day, even multiple times per hour. Now I have menus to go through to promptly, while in a fight because this isn't IRC in space, tend to whatever pressing matter is at hand that warranted a private conversation, because otherwise, there is not enough room to see a reasonable amount of chat history without scrolling. The default chat window specs seem suitable for seeing one person say "lol nub" without having to scroll or have the line wrap.

Stop making things take more room and have more menus than they have to, space is at a premium for anyone without an absurdly high resolution (I run an alienware laptop with a 1440x900 resolution).

At the least, make new chat windows match the ones already on the screen and tab with them appropriately or let me set some default window behavior, perhaps via an integrated theme and theme editor.

+1 for afk flagging in corp/alliance chat.

My top complaint with the new system is that there still needs to be an option in the global settings for:

- Compact member list as the default
- Show text only vs small/big portrait
- Message highlighting
- Displaying of timestamp

Then, each channel's checkbox or other channel-specific setting should be a tri-state value for "on / off / use-global".

Because EVE puts each chat channel or conversation channel into its own window, it's not as fluid as other games where you can have multiple chats going on in the same window. As a result, you tend to have 10-40 open chat windows, each with its own set of unique settings and now way to control how private chats appear by default.

This was bearable prior to the menu change, because the buttons for "show text only" were right at the top level of the UI, now they're buried inside a menu. Plus we now have more options to fiddle with such as the "Highlight" options.