NCU windows and chats improvements

Since I have reactivated my account, I have got impression that all changes have been really done for players. FC seems to be listening to players. So I will post some needed improvements.

NCU windows changes:
This is about NCU window in list mod.

Problem: Time remaining format is hard to read (00:02:23). If you want to see, if nano program is hostile or friendly, you need to enable extra column (type). You can't read name of nano program because of blinking (when nano program has got remaining time under 10s). There are too many nano programs.

Solution: Change time remaining format. Color name of nano program by nano type. Give us stop nano program blinking option. Give us hide nano program option like in Nano Programs windows.

Edited: Or make blink only icon but not the whole row.

Time remaining format and blinking option should be done in Fighting Target NCU and Nano Target NCU windows too. Also transparency, borderless and clickablethrough options would be nice in every window.

Current:

Code:

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Name                                Type    Remain
Greater Su****ious Death           Hostile  00:00:04
Mongo Crush!                        Friendly 00:02:23
Composite Attribute Boost (4 hours) Friendly 02:28:16

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Improved:

Code:

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Name                                Remain
Greater Su****ious Death                    4
Mongo Crush!                            2:23
Composite Attribute Boost (4 hours)  2:28:16

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or

Code:

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Name                                Remain
Greater Su****ious Death                    4
Mongo Crush!                            2:23
Composite Attribute Boost (4 hours)  2:28:16

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Chat channels changes:
Problem: Some chat channels has got too many types of messages.
Solution: I will show which channels should be split.

Edit2: Old channels shoud be keeped because not everyone would be happy, if they ninja changed. Just add new one and keep old one.

Vicinity

• Vicinity - Players
• Vicinity - Monsters
• "All team members can loot" spam

You got health

• You got health - delta
• You got health - yourself
• You got health - others

You got nano

• You got nano - delta
• You got nano - yourself
• You got nano - others

You hit other

• You hit other - regular
• You hit other - special
• You hit other - damage shield
• You hit other - reflected damage

You hit other with nano

• You hit other with nano - nano program
• You hit other with nano - perk

Me hit by monster

• Me hit by monster - regular
• Me hit by monster - special
• Me hit by monster - damage shield
• Me hit by monster - reflected damage
• Me hit by monster - absorbed

Me hit by player

• Me hit by player - regular
• Me hit by player - special
• Me hit by player - damage shield
• Me hit by player - reflected damage
• Me hit by player - absorbed

Me hit by nano

• Me hit by nano - nano program
• Me hit by nano - perk

System

• System - system (AO will go down in 30 mins)
• System - zoning
• System - requirement warning info (Your Biological Metamorphosis is required to be at least 1534!)
• System - out of range
• System - nano program
• System - hit by nano program
• System - perk (evaded / successfully)
• System - skill locked (perks too)
• System - skill available (perks too)
• System - attacking / attacked by

I haven't done splitting of system channel well, here is more work to be done.

Holy crap
^^^^^^^^^^BUMP^^^^^^^^^^


FC do it now!!!

Bump for better AO

Couple things: doesn't hit-by-nano already remove perk damage? And there should never be a mute option for system messages that relay downtimes or over server messages.

Bump otherwise though, some great things here.

Quote:

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Originally Posted by Saetos

And there should never be a mute option for system messages that relay downtimes or over server messages.

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Agree. I don't remember when I saw downtime message last time, bacouse of system messages spam.

<<<<<<BUMP>>>>>>>>>



Engineer buffs are annoying. I like the buffs but I hate the blinking.

Bump

bump

Great suggestions, in the meantime you can filter out the spam you dont want in
your chat windos by using /filter.

http://forums.anarchy-online.com/sho...d.php?t=556751

here is one I use, call it something other than just filter. like filterreset or whatever.. it's all client side btw.

Code:

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# Anarchy Online filtering script by Iamzipfile
/filter clear
/filter add ^You need a target for this item!$
/filter add ^You got healed by [a-zA-Z0-9]+ for [0-9]+ points of health\.$
/filter add ^Nanoprogram [a-zA-Z0-9 '!():]+ terminated\.\.\.$
/filter add ^Target is already dead\.$
/filter add ^Unable to perform action[a-zA-Z ,]+ locked, able in [0-9][0-9]:[0-9][0-9]:[0-9][0-9]$
/filter add ^You are already running this action!$
/filter add ^Wait for current nano program execution to finish\.$
/filter add ^Executing Nano Program: [a-zA-Z0-9 '!():]+\.$
/filter add ^Your damage shield hit [a-zA-Z0-9 !-_,.()']+ for [0-9]+ points of damage\.$
/filter add ^Nano program failed. Already executing nanoprogram\.$
/filter add ^Wait for your previous special attack to complete\.$
/filter add ^Unable to execute nano program. You can't execute this nano on the target\.$
/filter add ^Special attack is unavailable\.$
/filter add ^Nano program executed successfully\.$
/filter add ^Deactivating friendly timed nanoprogram\.$
/filter add ^You were healed for [0-9]+ points\.$
/filter add ^This item requires a hostile target to be applied on\.$
/filter add ^You were unable to attack the target!$
/filter add ^You can't attack yourself\.$
/filter add ^Reloading completed$
/filter add ^[a-zA-Z0-9 !-_,.()':]+ is already fully loaded\.$
/filter add ^You got nano from [a-zA-Z0-9]+ for [0-9]+ points\.$
/filter add ^You increased your nanopool with [0-9]+ points\.$
/filter add ^You can't attack this item\.$
/filter add ^You healed [a-zA-Z0-9]+ for [0-9]+ points of health\.$
/filter add ^You increased nano on [a-zA-Z0-9]+ for [0-9]+ points\.$
/filter add ^Starting attack failed\.$
/filter add ^Unable to execute nano program\. Target not found\.$
/filter add ^Can't carry that\.$
/filter add ^You're unable to perform this action; please check the requirements of the item\.$
/filter add ^Target must be sitting on ground in order to perform this action\.$
/filter add ^You're not allowed to loot these remains!$
/filter add ^All team members can loot these remains\.$
/filter add ^Team side is (mixed|omni|clan|neutral)\.$
/filter add ^PvP not allowed in this district\.$
/filter add ^Can't invite yourself\.$
/filter add ^Entering new area\.$
/filter add ^You must be standing up to execute a nano program\.$
/filter add ^Unable to perform action, [a-zA-Z0-9]+ skill is locked, able in [a-zA-Z0-9 '!():\-]+\.$
/filter add ^Changing area. Please wait\.$
/filter add ^Action is not available\.$
/filter enable
# /filter list

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bump.

bump

Bump for the chat window options, and NCU window options - although the proposed changes to the NCU window would make it harder for me personally to read, more options are always good to have.

bump, these are good.

Don't mix green and red, your red-green colourblind players never approve.

Quote:

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Originally Posted by Psithief

Don't mix green and red, your red-green colourblind players never approve.

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Thats one of two reasons I like the additional column we have for the hostile/friendly display. The other reason is that without the separate column, its difficult to instantly sort them with a single click. But don't take that as an argument against the option per se, just against this suggestion being the only/default display method.

FANTASTIC suggestion mate!!!

These are exactly the kind of little things that some of us have lived with a long time, and I think the major focus point for a lot of the great new work being done by Means and his dedicated team over the past few months: the smoothing the rough edges so to speak needed to take AO into the future with the new engine.

I hate the fact that there is no transparency on NCU window
My windows are currently broken up into Combat (dmg/pet spam and logged for dd), Default (org/tells/etc), Spam (ooc/shopping/towers), System (ONLY system) and Raids (all kinds of raid chat)


http://i80.photobucket.com/albums/j191/myleandro/shadowops/mysexyao2.png

System window lives between combat spam, and raidchat, under the rows and rows of perk shortcut bars.
As you can see, my NCU shortcut bar looks fugly - and i need to scroll when doing a community/pub raid/tl7 towers where there are 30+ programs in ncu

Can you also add to the OP, System: NCU or something like that? The new mobs and encounters depend a LOT on the 'System' window 'You hear a ringing inside your NCU....' in DB/aune before he nukes, or in xan stuff aswell. The problem with where it is now is that even if i have it on a window by itself, the system messages like 'perk is recharging... please wait 0:08... perk is recharging... please wait 0:07... perk is recharging... please wait 0:07... perk is recharging... please wait 0:05... ' spam is flooding the warning off the scroll due to button mashing syndrome.

bump :)