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[Forum] Tags, proposal to return the Green NPC Actor tag

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Jandice Ymladris
Aurora Arcology
#1 - 2014-07-01 20:30:21 UTC
We all know the colored tags in the forums and that they help to highlight certain threads/topics/posts.
Blue for Dev; Red for GM, white for ISD/CSM

But in the past tehre was also a Green tag to communicate ingame information through NPC actor posts on the forum. This helped participation & the ability to update on topics without posting a devblog for every little thing.

Example from an old thread during the Nation events (scroll down for the green tags)

The green tag helped people to check for what topics were relevant to certain events & respond to it, instead of digging through alot of non-sensical threads if you are not used trawling through certain forum subsections.

Currently, NPC actors don't get tagged at all, so when they do post, practically everyone, but the regular visitors of EvE Summit, Fiction & Live events skip them because they don't realize it isn't a player posting but a dev/gm under disguise.

Recent example (OP is a NPC Actor, no tag, so only responses is from the core RP crowd, other people who are more casually interested in lore/rp miss out)

Adding a green tag to the NPC actor would highlight it to others as wel, marking it as a piece of CCP endorsed lore. (or any other color will do as well tbh, just picked green as that was the old tag for them)

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Arya Regnar
Darwins Right Hand
#2 - 2014-07-01 21:53:59 UTC  |  Edited by: Arya Regnar
I wan't eve to stay grey and gloomy.

The second colors turn to cheerful people will get the wrong idea that I'm not allowed to ransom them blow them up after they concord themself on me steal their stuff tackle pod ransom them again, kill them again and use killright to hound them for a month and then have them sing a song and draw a picture of me so I stop. Cool

*might be a slight exaggeration and possibly didn't happen on the offchance of psychological torture*

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Jandice Ymladris
Aurora Arcology
#3 - 2014-07-02 04:47:38 UTC
I believe you get me wrong Big smile

The colortag would serve to enhance what you describe, more destruction, as there's a certain crowd of PvP'ers that enjoys to do PvP for a lore-purpose.

The colortag would only be visible on the forum, and only applicable to CCP NPC actors (as it was in the past) to make them stand out more form the regular posters (currently, you cannot discern the two)

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Rowells
Pator Tech School
Minmatar Republic
#4 - 2014-07-02 04:54:18 UTC
I'm not part of the RP community so i can't give any feedback that's relevant, however I could see how this would be useful and welcomed.

+1
Akrasjel Lanate
Immemorial Coalescence Administration
Immemorial Coalescence
#5 - 2014-07-02 13:25:28 UTC  |  Edited by: Akrasjel Lanate
I like them also, but it's not that hard to notice when a devactor is posting.

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Rivr Luzade
Coreli Corporation
Pandemic Legion
#6 - 2014-07-02 13:30:18 UTC
Arya Regnar wrote:
I wan't eve to stay grey and gloomy.

The second colors turn to cheerful people will get the wrong idea that I'm not allowed to ransom them blow them up after they concord themself on me steal their stuff tackle pod ransom them again, kill them again and use killright to hound them for a month and then have them sing a song and draw a picture of me so I stop. Cool

*might be a slight exaggeration and possibly didn't happen on the offchance of psychological torture*


Why not? If the world thinks that this colorful place is a Happy Pony Land, it will the all the harder for them when they are confronted with the harsh realities behind the fancy curtain. Blink

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