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Thanks stain rat!

Shizoku wrote:QUOTE (Shizoku @ Aug 5 2006, 02:44 PM) Thanks stain rat!

My pleasure! If it wasn't me, it would've been one of the others. Just so happened I was familiar with that section of code.

Tigereye wrote:QUOTE (Tigereye @ Aug 5 2006, 01:00 PM) It's easy enough for us skilled veterans to choose "Command" wing.

In my opinion, this has always been the best argument for keeping the defaults the way they currently are. Newer community members probably don't realize changing their wing settings potentially changes the amount of on-screen information they receive. The person who wants drone spam is much more likely to know where the option for it is than the person overwhelmed by the amount of data they're receiving.

It's a persistent inconvenience for the vets but I think the added accessibility for newer members makes up for it.

Clay, you can see how it is. take it from there.

Thank you, witnesses, one and all.


radar

PS , now that we have ranks, we can choose the default channel by rank.

I'm wondering if it wouldn't be possible (read: easy to do) to make the wing assignment a default setting on the client side. This way a player can elect to be on Command wing as his default wing whenever he joins a game. This should give you the flexibility to not overwhelm the inexperienced, while not having to regularly inconvenience the experienced.

Nothing wrong with R2, imo, but stuff I'd like to see for R3:

Make the minimap enlarged by default.
Have Radar Mode set to All by default.
When you right click on a sector to chat to it, have the chat box go back to the team channel after you are done.
Have 'Attack my target', 'Need a pick up', 'I've gotchya, hold still' broadcast only to the current sector, unless otherwise specfied.
Sometimes 'I've gotcha, hold still' sound effect plays, but no command pops up nor anything in team chat. I've talked to people and I'm not the only one experiencing it. I think it happens when someone uses ~LQ instead of ~CS. Please fix this.

Imo, one of the hardest things about using the chat channels effectively is the time it takes switching between channels. It would be great if their were two different keys a user presses to chat, one which works like the current one does, and a second which talks to wing channel only.

Any chance we could get Stain Rat's patch befor R3?

Pretty plz!

juckto

your post is absolute gold ---- fabulous stuff

really good clear and concise input.

I am making notes.

radar

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shiz - we will mail you a printout of the patch to post next to your screen until it finally gets put in

lol - not

radar

just a suggstion, what if you made it so that it remembers the last wing you used? the default wing is then only used once, and you only have to set it to command wing once (unless you use other wings) then it wouldnt clutter the settings menu, and still make everyone happy (except people who change wing a lot, but i dont know if anyone does)

Not really an 'I hate post' but a response to some of the above

I'd like to see
-Default wing
-Default mini-map setting
-Default radar mode
-(and possibly a few others)
all be read from registry keys so advanced users can change them. Ideally they would also be added to the <esc> menu so you could set them without knowing how to use 'regedit'.

I was in the default wing to 'command' camp as well, but it is trivial for advanced users to change it and not so trivital for new players so I was fine with it defaulting to alpha again. (Beta provided good feedback here).

As far as click selecting a player for PM, I was able to unclick (deselect) by clicking anywhere in the large blue/yellow regions.

New feature requests should probably go in a different thread. This thread is best kept to R2 specific changes.

faz r2 suggestion for faz r3, change the "Team Only" description for team chat to "Noat Chat" or something, just a thought. /smile.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":)" border="0" alt="smile.gif" />