Public chat color & effects

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Leave in public chat colors & effects in the new client?

Allow colors (yellow, red, green, cyan, purple, white) in public chat
35
25%
Don't allow colors in public chat
3
2%
Allow flash1, flash2 and flash3 in public chat
13
9%
Don't allow flash in public chat
18
13%
Allow glow1, glow2 and glow3 in public chat
20
14%
Don't allow glow in public chat
9
6%
Allow effects (wave, wave2, shake, scroll, slide) in public chat
11
8%
Don't allow effects in public chat
32
23%
 
Total votes: 141

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Mike
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Public chat color & effects

Post by Mike » Thu Oct 20, 2016 12:06 am

It appears the new client also had public chat colors & effects packed in it. I'm sure some players would like the ability to have some chat that stands out from other players. Ahh, the good old days of the World 1 public chat in Varrock/Falador with the hundreds of buyers/sellers all using their colors and fancy effects to try and stand out of the others.

On the other hand, sometimes simplicity simply looks more appealing to the eye - even if not always on a conscious level. So the question is: do we really want those effects in our public chat, or would that just end up making things messy and/or unappealing (just like threads that look like coloring books on the forums are just icky)?

For the record, these are the ones that appear to be supported:
  • yellow
    red
    green
    cyan
    purple
    white
    flash1
    flash2
    flash3
    glow1
    glow2
    glow3
    wave
    wave2
    shake
    scroll
    slide
I'm not sure if these are also exactly the ones supported in OSRS (too lazy to look it up), but I think it might be.

let us know your opinion!

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Re: Public chat color & effects

Post by Hayden » Thu Oct 20, 2016 12:12 am

don't allow them

their purpose is to stand out from other text but when everyone's using them, all in one area, it all blends anyway and it just gets fucking annoying and creates more spam

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Re: Public chat color & effects

Post by Pajama treee » Thu Oct 20, 2016 12:13 am

yes, its a cool thing that makes the server more unique.

don't make pkhonor turn into a shitty osrs by having a 100% replica of it. or u could just add a way to disable them through a toggle?
pkhonor is pretty bland in general, the colors really hype shit up in yell.

also not everyone knows how to do it, plus plus hayden

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Re: Public chat color & effects

Post by Retsnom » Thu Oct 20, 2016 12:14 am

So to clear things up, these are just effects for the text that shows up then disappears? Or these are all affects for what stay in the chat box? I'm confused how you can have wave and stuff stay in the chatbox, but I know some servers have colored/glowing chatbox text.

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Re: Public chat color & effects

Post by Hayden » Thu Oct 20, 2016 12:15 am

Pajama treee wrote:yes, its a cool thing that makes the server more unique.

don't make pkhonor turn into a shitty osrs by having a 100% replica of it. or u could just add a way to disable them through a toggle?
pkhonor is pretty bland in general, the colors really hype shit up in yell.

also not everyone knows how to do it, plus plus hayden
he's not talking about <shad> etc. on yell, i believe he's talking about like wave:red: in public chat

for the record yeah the ones on yell are cool because not everyone knows how to do them. that makes them actually stand out (plus they take more effort so they're less common)

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Re: Public chat color & effects

Post by Pajama treee » Thu Oct 20, 2016 12:24 am

Hayden wrote:
Pajama treee wrote:yes, its a cool thing that makes the server more unique.

don't make pkhonor turn into a shitty osrs by having a 100% replica of it. or u could just add a way to disable them through a toggle?
pkhonor is pretty bland in general, the colors really hype shit up in yell.

also not everyone knows how to do it, plus plus hayden
he's not talking about <shad> etc. on yell, i believe he's talking about like wave:red: in public chat

for the record yeah the ones on yell are cool because not everyone knows how to do them. that makes them actually stand out (plus they take more effort so they're less common)
Mike points out the good ol days of selling at varrock too.
well that shit doesn't happen on pkhonor, theres maybe 10 selling stuff at varrock, the rest use the GE or yell to sell, with that said, i don't think pleasing 1 player would please 200 others though.

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Re: Public chat color & effects

Post by Floriduh » Thu Oct 20, 2016 12:51 am

Colors and glows are fine. Flash, scroll, waves, etc. get annoying, IMO.
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Re: Public chat color & effects

Post by Azu rite » Thu Oct 20, 2016 1:55 am

You can use them in osrs
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Re: Public chat color & effects

Post by Hayden » Thu Oct 20, 2016 2:13 am

Floriduh wrote:Colors and glows are fine. Flash, scroll, waves, etc. get annoying, IMO.
actually yeah this

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Re: Public chat color & effects

Post by Im on meth » Thu Oct 20, 2016 5:30 am

Hayden wrote:
Floriduh wrote:Colors and glows are fine. Flash, scroll, waves, etc. get annoying, IMO.
actually yeah this
We have them all right now anyways... I don't see why you should remove something from the new client that we have right now and no one seems to care about.

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