Chat highlighting for commander

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  1. -=]Kane[=-

    -=]Kane[=- Member

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    Simple suggestion,
    as commander highlight every chatline of teamchat that contains one of the following:
    com, commander, cv, ref, rax, vf, refinery, command, factory, armory, pad, barracks or comm
    by writing it in bold letters
    pro: primitiv importance arrangement,
    Easier to catch what you have to read as commander
    con: very little more stress for the server,
    needs a bit of coding

    Alternitiv 1: check up only the first word of a line for less stress on the server
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    /Alternitiv 2: Make a voice chat command saying "I need strategic support" (or smth along the line)+giving out the position in textchat
    pro: You barely can miss someone calling for your support
    con: annoying teammates might abuse this to get your attention,
    would need a voice actor ...

    /Additional Idea:
    Highlight your name ALWAYS even while not commanding, might be a prob with clan tags etc, but some ppl have short nicks so at least for them it could work out well
     
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  2. FN198

    FN198 Member

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    anything that gives the commander more precedence, YES

    EDIT:

    wow this is a stupid idea. no
     
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  3. Grantrithor

    Grantrithor Member

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    It's a good idea, but what about if the commander had a sentence being bolded saying "FUCKING COMMANDER NOT SETTING DOWN RAXES AND BITCH WON'T SET DOWN REFS F S SPACE F S SPACE NAO" and those type of sentences pop up a lot.
     
  4. -=]Kane[=-

    -=]Kane[=- Member

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    Then you at least know that you shouldn't command :D
    /nah, on a serious note, if there 1 spam msg out of 20 highlighted msges then in average it's still fine, it's not like you couldn't see these msges if they weren't highlighted :rolleyes:
     
  5. recon

    recon SM Support Dev

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    Although people may abuse it to bold stuff on purpose, I think it'll be beneficial enough to be worth implementing.
     
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  6. -=]Kane[=-

    -=]Kane[=- Member

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    First and last *bump*
     
  7. flasche

    flasche Member Staff Member Moderator

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    11days is that a necro already? :p

    on topic - do eet!!! maybe, to counter some concerns, it should only highlight the keywords ...
     

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