Suggestion Compacted Chat

[FoxyBearGames]

Something that I believe would be nice to see is a setting to turn you chat to be "Compacted." For example, messages in your alliance would be compacted down to something along the lines of this:

[CR] [LS] FoxyBearGames:

As opposed to:

[Coast Revolution] [Lower Sylvis] BIG MAN FoxyBearGames:

In this case, it uses the first letters of the town/alliance to make the compacted version, as well as removing my title. I think this could go for a lot more than just the alliance chat, and would be much more bearable especially as chat has more and more going on within it.

 

[Cryptite]

I waffle between whether this should be a personal setting, a server-change overall, or an alliance changeable setting or something.

 

[FoxyBearGames]

I waffle between whether this should be a personal setting, a server-change overall, or an alliance changeable setting or something.

Personally it's probably best as a personal change as it would probably take a more advanced player to understand it, especially if it were done to other things like attack messages. For example:

Lower Sylvis ⚔ Southern Valyria​

I think it'd definitely take a more advanced player to understand what all that means as opposed to "Lower Sylvis has begun an attack on Southern Valyria." Although that really only applies if this were more of a global thing on ALL messages as opposed to alliance.

 

[opelafer]

it should be a personal setting for those who prefer it like that

 

[Zachary_N_Kaleno]

Foxy's title takes up 2 lines on my screen

But on a serious note, I think this should be implemented, maybe even better, shorten the username to something people can recognize, a Nick of sorts, that the player can set.

If Foxy wants to reduce his ign from FoxyBearGames to Foxy, he can, but only if an admin accepts it, to prevent strange nicknames like ApplePieGameringTheWorld instead of FoxyBearGames, and would cost orbs for every name change.

[Coast Revolution] [Lower Sylvis] BIG MAN FoxyBearGames:

[Coast Revolution] [Lower Sylvis] BIG MAN Foxy:

And with Foxy's recommendation

[CR] [LS] Foxy:

Also a note to bring up, what if two alliances are created, let's say Campers Corner & Cat Corale Will both alliances be [CC] or will the second alliance be forced to change their name to stop confusion.

 

[kiadmowi]

have hovering over the shortened version show the full name/message