You should change the events menu

[Ahoyhoy]

Instead of having all things reported on one screen. You should have Occurences of the day. Things said to all. And things said to you.

Because a lot of times people don't really see all the things said to them. They just see a bunch of other irrelevant stuff.

[Lumin]

I'm not sure if I understand what you mean...are you asking that nothing but conversations be displayed?

But it's pretty relevant if someone's looting all your buildings, isn't it? Or hitting you with a crossbow?

[Ahoyhoy]

No no. I'm saying let's say someone hits you. Well if it's a busy town, and you're scrolling through what everyone is doing and saying. You may not catch it. But if you have a personal matters section of events where if someone talked to you it went under that page, or if someone hit you it went under that page. A public chat page where the things people say to everyone is registered. And a other events page where you would see someone stealing or walking someone, I think it would make it easier.

[Snake_byte]

So not really change the events page but add another page and maybe call it personal events.
This way the "public events page" would display everything and the "personal events page" would display only things concerning your charrie. Is that accurate?

[Ahoyhoy]

Well what I was reffering to was you have all the events reported. But then for a sub option you could see personal events and all of that other stuff. You don't need to make those events in a different section they could all be under events. Just put under sub-menu's.

So yeah don't change the events page. Just add some sub-menu's.

[Jos Elkink]

Wouldn't you loose sight of the order in which things happened, if you split things? E.g. A points at B, then A says to C "That's Mike" ... how will you understand that if it's split?

[Bran-Muffin]

Yeah, its fine how it is right now. If you have trouble reading it, hitthe logout button and when it does log out completely hit the back button to read it without letting minutes go to waste.

[SekoETC]

I think it would be cool if there would be an option that hides people coming and going, people whispering to others than you, knocking, eating raports and projects finished, leaving only talking, pointing and attacking. I don't know about hunting, that's on the limit. The default would still be show all, but you could switch on to this mode temporarily.

Or actually, why not make it customizable? Give you an options page that gives you checkboxes for everything, if you want to play blind for example then you could remove the messages that start with you see, and if you play deaf then you could hide knocking. But naturally hiding talking wouldn't make much sense since a part of it is rp.

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Do you want to receive a notice on the following?

[X] People talking to you
[X] Talking in general
[ ] People whispering to each other
[X] You entering and leaving locations
[ ] Others entering and leaving the location
[X] Attacks against you
[X] Attacks against others
[ ] Hunting
[X] Pointing
[ ] Knocking
[X] Items given to you
[ ] Items given to others
[X] Project messages



Maybe it would reset every time you log out since it would be silly if you forgot it on and was wondering why ain't this project advancing, only to realize you got project messages switched off and you don't see the "you don't have the right tools to work on this project" message. But it would be useful for copying events when you want to ignore some of the stuff, like whispers, people leaving and so on.

[Sunni Daez]

I think it is fine the way it is...

[Ahoyhoy]

I don't think it's fine the way it is because sometimes there is SO much. If you could narrow it down it would be easier to read.

[Alexander]

Agreed...

There should be a separate window, perhaps a java pop up window, that exclusively shows the interactions and conversations which pertain only to you. I have only been playing for a few days, and I see the events pages getting really really long. It's quite an eye strain to scroll down through hundreds of lines of text looking for things which are pertinant to you.

A java pop up would work wonders!

[Floyd]

No! No Java whatsoever! Java doesn't run on my comp

[kinvoya]

Ahoyhoy, if you don't want to read it all you could use a search function to look for the word "you." That should get you through it pretty quickly.

[Snake_byte]

Well there is a thread in the "Accepted Suggestions" Forum that is similiar to this idea. I think that since this one has already been accepted, this one won't be... http://www.cantr.net/forum/viewtopic.php?t=132

[Alexander]

As it currently is, how often does the Events page purge itself of all the previous text?

One of my events pages is getting really long...