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[Feature Request] Chat highlights
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Electrique Wizard
Mutually Lucrative Business Proposals
#1 - 2014-09-02 20:04:58 UTC
Chat is the most popular feature in EVE. It gives you a way to communicate, to exchange insults with eachother in local, to prove people you have indeed both a CAPS LOCK button and an IQ equal to the amount of belts in Jita. It provides you the initial basis to know the fiend that has just tackled you in a belt and hopefully when CCP fixes this bug called "undocking" the chat will be pretty much all that's left.

Because there is no way you can avoid this awesome feature I propose some additions to the chat system to make communication a bit more personal and involve the player more in the game:

Be able to select highlights for certain words (or your own name for example) that will have a different color in the chat / local windows aswel as an option to configure a notification sound.
This allows you to shitpost in local as much as you want and then go AFK untill someone gets angry enough to call your name in an effort to retalliate.
Or for instance you're an Obelisk Mogul wanting to own all the Obelisks on contract. Set a notification to "Obelisk" and BAM! First guy that says Obelisk (Item Exchange) will appear bright and shiny pink in your local screen.

I am the Zodiac, I am the stars, You are the sorceress, my priestess of Mars, Queen of the night, swathed in satin black, Your ivory flesh upon my torture rack.
Jack Reafman
The Scope
Gallente Federation
#2 - 2014-09-02 20:18:00 UTC
Electrique Wizard wrote:
Be able to select highlights for certain words (or your own name for example) that will have a different color in the chat / local windows aswel as an option to configure a notification sound.



Most of this post I just felt like, wertdafurt? But I would like to be able to get a ding/beep/boop whatever whenever someone links my name in chat. Usually with 5+ tabs open in the chat window I end up missing when someone's talking to me, and not getting back to them until well after the fact. An audible notification when someone links your name would be awesome.
Discomanco
We pooped on your lawn
#3 - 2014-09-03 00:06:13 UTC
Shocker, there are already chat highlights in game.
Granted, they are not as good as you propose them to be (no sound or on-screen popup), but you do have an option only to make the tab flash when your selected word has been said.
Electrique Wizard
Mutually Lucrative Business Proposals
#4 - 2014-09-04 13:56:18 UTC
Discomanco wrote:
Shocker, there are already chat highlights in game.
Granted, they are not as good as you propose them to be (no sound or on-screen popup), but you do have an option only to make the tab flash when your selected word has been said.


Making a tab flash is not exactly the same as different colored text or pings, they wont do anything if you currently have the tab open somewhere aswel.

I am the Zodiac, I am the stars, You are the sorceress, my priestess of Mars, Queen of the night, swathed in satin black, Your ivory flesh upon my torture rack.