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DrunkenGummyBear

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This feature is technically possible and could be added with relative ease (with an option to disable it) if there's enough interest for it.
Personally though, I think the BattleForge chat can already be quite bloated. Saying hi in the Strategy channel already is [{GM}Ladadoos] says to strategy: hi and with this feature it would only get longer. But I suppose this symptom is alleviated with the setting to disable this feature. The timestamp could perhaps be a tooltip on each message instead, too.

How would you format the timestamp?

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tbh, why not take out the "says"?
[15:25] Metagross31 to strategy:
Or use shorthands for channels (strategy - str, trade - trd, beginner - beg, lfg - lfg) and then make something like:
[15:26] Metagross31 to str:
(that last one might be overkill though)

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2 hours ago, Metagross31 said:

tbh, why not take out the "says"?
[15:25] Metagross31 to strategy:
Or use shorthands for channels (strategy - str, trade - trd, beginner - beg, lfg - lfg) and then make something like:
[15:26] Metagross31 to str:
(that last one might be overkill though)

Perhaps even the "to channel name" could be optional aswell in the settings, as you have the colors anyways?

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On 5/12/2021 at 3:14 PM, DrunkenGummyBear said:

Could work like that. Also the channel can be resized so getting a little longer shouldn't be much of a hussle. As of the format i think just the time whould be enough.

e.g. [16:13] DrunkenGummyBear says to strategy : hi

ah yes the beautiy of games made to work on low res screen that don't have UI scaling ._. -plays at 4K
 

22 hours ago, LEBOVIN said:

Perhaps even the "to channel name" could be optional aswell in the settings, as you have the colors anyways?

yeah, exactly, I think just "in/nothing" and the whole channel "word" would be nicer, but with colour codes, we could have that gone completely. Having more tabs for multiple channels would be nicer tho.

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On 5/12/2021 at 6:24 PM, LEBOVIN said:

Perhaps even the "to channel name" could be optional aswell in the settings, as you have the colors anyways?

I like it. Do we consider it an issue global and region have the same color?

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1 hour ago, DrunkenGummyBear said:

i think nobody uses region anyways so i guess not a problem.

But but, what about flat-earthers, I'm sure they would refuse to chat in global, and somehow game engines in general, go very well with their beliefs. (most of them are actually flat worlds xd)

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