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Sorry if this has been discussed already - but does anyone know the max number of people that can be invited to a private chat channel?


Thanks
 
Freddie said:
Please chill out!

I know you are annoyed about not being able to log in cause of GC's not working, but believe me, MA IS working on getting it online as fast as they can.


They want you ingame, they want you to spend peds, so I seriously doubt that they are working slowly on this.
And as you can read in the above quote, it will be solved today.

So come on, chill out! Stop giving MindArk shit for everything, they don't have the budget of Blizzard or EA. They have a way smaller staff and based on that they are doing a good job.

Give me as much shit as you want, I really don't care. But stop the constant bloody whining.

Freddie
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LOL I suppose I should be inspired theres still someone thinking positive thoughts about MA and the job their doing but really your comments make me LOL and think to myself "oh man you poor SOB"! You have no idea!
 
Fifth said:
Seconded.

Special greetings to the design genius who figured we all have to have those 2 permanent ugly dark "ears" on our screens that we can't remove unless we disable the whole HUD.

The reward for the most idiotic management decision however goes to the guy who decided we can't disable the flashing global messages. I'm a paying customer and you force me to look at your stupid ads? I'm sorry that's a bit too arrogant for my taste.
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don't worry, when you buy the premium account you will be able to disable this :D
 
Optimator said:
Just to echo,

The gray, green, yellow, red text on a blue-gray background is a strain on the eyes - mine at least. idk, maybe others like it. Pleas give option to chnage chat-box background to BLACK.

Also:

Please allow option to remove "Message Center" and "Contact" tabs from HUD. The reason I have these hotkeyed is because I dont want them on my HUD.
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Ok, just found the MAIN (right-click) > UI Settings > Auto-Fade [On] for dark(er) chat background

(thanks, Fifth)
 
Looks like both Main and Private chat logging broken after that VU?

Any ETA when this will be fixed?
 
Brighter colors would be nice, can't make anything out of those dark texts.
Pretty much only way to make it anyway readable is to make every message the same color (that most white thing there is). :/
 
My wishlist:

A option for Pitch black chat window background.
A option to choose for bright flashy neon style colors.
A option to double click on a nickname in chat to open a PM IN A WINDOW.
An search-option in friendlist to quickfind an avatar.
A clickable button on the main window of the friendlist with a number showing how many offline messages were received.
Don't stick the red global-bar on top of the chatwindow.
More thick letters.

The chatsystem atm is a step back for socializing.
 
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Thanks for your effort MindArk/Caly-Devs. :)

But I think it needs some tweaks, it´s incredibly hard for me to follow the chat properly (compared to the old one), truth is it looks unfortunately like a step backwards right now, reminds me of games I played back in the 90´s. ^^

The font/everything looks too small and kind of "compressed" and it´s not that easy to adjust it to the old state(tried it and it felt kinda broken), at least transitionally until some stuff is fixed. I dont know why there has to be a global-indicator-thingy, dunno if that was necessary.

Anyway I still have to investigate the new chat a lil bit more, I´m sure I can fix most problems I have with more knowledge.

So keep it up, there´s no way we can go back, just try to improve new chat realtively fast.

:wtg:
 
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OMG, how to make a clear chat system in a completely cluttered piece of crap!

Makes me think about IRC chat of 20 years ago!

No clue how to get rid of that rookie channel "/leave #Rookie" doesn't work, says Channel not found. sometimes i can type but don't press enter.

And why should I want to have the same line of text again after I posted it already in chat?

pop-ups for every global on top of chat (but half of the text hidden behind the 3 buttons) and every global in chat again.
System tab blinking every time someone logs on or off? It's like a Vegas casino, the MSN website is easier for the eyes :p
Really interface is restless, can't imagine to have eu open for more than 30 minutes.

Who the heck designed this thing? "Lets make it non-intuitive as possible?" And yet better what moron approved it?
 
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Harder to read. Less intuitive. New features overshadowed by bugs.

Text doesn't clear when I hit enter? Really? How'd you miss that? No, seriously. How did you miss that?

Red global bar thing text obscured by UI buttons? Hey, that super annoying thing you added to my screen is even more annoying because it's obscured by some other new thing on top of it. Sweet work guys. Now my screen looks like a bad website from the 90's. Flashing crap and 20 different fonts.

Getting software right always seems to be such a struggle for MA. It's just really embarrassing for all of us. So please, please for the love of lootius, save everybody some sanity and stop pushing out updates when they still have obvious bugs in them.

But it happened because of reasons, right? Hokay...

Is somebody at MA clamoring for the V.U. to be rushed out the door for some business reason?

Does your live environment display different behavior than testing environment?

Are your testers sub-human lobotomy patients?

Maybe your outsourced devs need to be replaced. Maybe your in-house devs don't care anymore.

Whatever the constant cause of bad software, I suggest solving it, because getting software right isn't that difficult.
 
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has anyone else lost the skill/prof tracker, i was able to bring up a small window which allowed me to see my skill and profession gains, but the icon has gone walkabout.
 
The Jetman said:
has anyone else lost the skill/prof tracker, i was able to bring up a small window which allowed me to see my skill and profession gains, but the icon has gone walkabout.
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right click on screen > My Avatar > progress

There's also a button Progress in the action book (page 39) that you can put on your screen to invoke that panel.
 
Svarog said:
right click on screen > My Avatar > progress

There's also a button Progress in the action book (page 39) that you can put on your screen to invoke that panel.
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cheers, i wondered where it had gone.
 
OK, so we got the same chat system as Fallen Earth now.
Good work! Suppose we badly needed their chat system. I can live with that. We're all well trained here - survive and adapt. It's a survival game afterall.

I'm curious about those 2 dark ugly menu anchor thingies? Was it really necessary to make an exact copy of those too? They look quite ok on the Fallen Erath's overall murky pastel colorset by the way. Here on CryEngine's overall shiny brightness they... well, they look hideous. But that's ok, we can live with hideous. We will adapt, u know, eventually.

Now, just imagine for a moment that instead of those hideous dark things, you would have used the screen edges? Both right and left screen edges are unused atm. Move your cursor there and the menu slides out. Classy right? That way you would have at least improved upon Fallen Eath's ancient chat system a bit, made a small step forward so to say. It's still not too late to do that btw...

We got something brand new and original also. The new flashy version of global/HoF ads. Forced upon us so that brainless herd of sheep as we are, we'll immediately start clicking the Deposit button.

Well here's a newsflash for u, i'm not a sheep and don't appreciate much being treated as one. I won't click "Deposit", i only reflect the same attitude back.
So... what was the sound, a sheep makes? Was it MAAAA...?

See me going down from hunter #13 to hunter nobody in the next few weeks. Few weeks should be enough to clean up the mess. Or maybe not, we'll see.
 
Chat colors & background & fonts

So, overall, we had a chat interface that was mostly unreadable and now they have gone and made it completely unreadable. The fonts are smaller, the color contrasts are reduced and the background is no longer providing a sharp contrast.

All in all, a fail, never mind the GC issues.

Updates never fail to disappoint and this one does so in a very big way.

Whatever else may have been "fixed" or "improved", the chat changes essentially make the game an ocular disaster and will drive many away.
 
Bal said:
So, overall, we had a chat interface that was mostly unreadable and now they have gone and made it completely unreadable. The fonts are smaller, the color contrasts are reduced and the background is no longer providing a sharp contrast.

All in all, a fail, never mind the GC issues.

Updates never fail to disappoint and this one does so in a very big way.

Whatever else may have been "fixed" or "improved", the chat changes essentially make the game an ocular disaster and will drive many away.
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I concur, the chat is unreadable with those colors, do the UI designers use some super-mega-high contrast monitors for developing? (would be rather stupid) Or how can anyone ever think those dim colors could be usable?

Seriously, either pay the UI designers to get basic courses on some UI designing classes (yes, even the basic courses tell you about how to use colors and contrast, the very basic ones), or re-think this whole thing.
 
Well... roughly 10-20% of people suffer from impaired seeing or color seeing deficiencies (mainly red-green blindness or weakness). You need lots of contrast to accommodate them, and dark hazy red, green and brown tones will not do. Period. You usually learn that in Gfx Design 101.
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I generally like the increased functionality, although some things could work better.

However...

As many others have stated, the colors are terrible. Pastels, really? It's just a jumble of similar tones and I hate it, it doesn't look good and it's hard to pick things out. Can we at least get options that allow us to sort of recreate the old color scheme? I also don't need the fancy buttons/borders and space wasting design, I'd much prefer something more simplistic like the old system. How about a simple version we can choose as an option?

The "ears" at the top left and right edges need to go.

The red global thing that pops up needs to go.

It's really just depressing to look at the thing as it is.
 
GradenFoss said:
Well... roughly 10-20% of people suffer from impaired seeing or color seeing deficiencies (mainly red-green blindness or weakness). You need lots of contrast to accommodate them, and dark hazy red, green and brown tones will not do. Period. You usually learn that in Gfx Design 101.
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LOL... as the Global/HoF ticker bar above flashes red, I'd say they skipped that course.
 
you got to be kidding me

Wow, a 2 year old could of designed a better global/ hof bar. A suggestion fire the whole programing team and hire a class of 2 year olds they would do a far better job.
 
SID666 said:
Wow, a 2 year old could of designed a better global/ hof bar. A suggestion fire the whole programing team and hire a class of 2 year olds they would do a far better job.
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I say punish them by having to answer support mail from the community!
 
ma awalys noob;

sad;
 
I found serious video-footage of your headquarter in Sweden, showing the final stage of a new VU.



(Dont take it too serious Devs, but this just came to my mind as soon as I saw the new chat) ;)
 
There is alot of of options now, and that isnt allways a good thing for all of us. If u not so techi it can be hard to get it all sorted out in a good way.
Collors on the chat hmm i gess i could get used to it but i would like to be able to recice the fonts to a bigger scale would help my old eyes to se better ;) And i gess also some other collor sheeme would help.

I gess i have to try it out some more to se if i found any other things that i like a change on.

I do think the grafic look better now tho and not to much issues overall imo, atleast as far i exploered it so far.

I have to say good job with such a big change afterall MA :D

I belive it will be good after some tweeks in a wile :)
 
Fixed
Bug on right eye in Musca (L) and Adjusted Musca helmets.

Not fixed issues
Randomly missing fire animation on laser carbines when shooting at long range. NEW 14.6: reload sound missing! :laugh:
Amplifiers no longer visible on laser carbines.
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No comment on the new communication interface, I guess I have to get used to it, but, oh God! how did they manage to create it so ugly and unpratcical. :eyecrazy:

The two icons top/right and top/left are overlapping my own icons, I wish they were movable as previoulsy suggested.




And now, as recommended by MA...
If you feel that the possibility of encountering minor issues or bugs directly after a Version Update affects your gameplay to an extent that Entropia Universe is not enjoyable, please wait until the mini-patches have been released and any last minute issues have been resolved.
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...back to PlanetSide2!!! GL here to all addicted gamblers... :tongue2:
 
Bertha Bot said:
Social Interface
We want your feedback to further enhance and improve this Social User Interface. Please post on your planet partner forum.
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Feedback???

How about this- It sucks.

It sucks beyond the level of suckiness of anything that has come before it.

Words do not do justice to the degree to which this sucks.

Up until this point, I could not have imagined that any one thing could suck this much.

Black holes throughout the universe are having an existential crisis because they don't suck nearly as much as this new UI.

Please remove all of it.

Get this crap off of my screen.
 
...and can someone please tell me how to get rid of the glowing red Global thing???
 
Bertha Bot said:
Social Interface

We want your feedback to further enhance and improve this Social User Interface. Please post on your planet partner forum.
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Really like the new interface. Takes some getting used to, but that is expected when people have used that old limited interface for so many years.

The message center can be a bit confusing tho, and I miss the old "auction sold", "skill level gained", "new PM" etc. icons that used pop up above chat.

I dont mind the global/hof bar, but its current placement makes it stealing abit to much attention imo.
 
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