BloodArgon Posted November 12, 2008 Share Posted November 12, 2008 Your cannon has almost decayed! One or more of your grand exchange offers have been updated! Your gravemarker has collapsed! Your resistance to dragon breath is about to wear out! What do these all have in common? They are all important, and they are all mixed with standard text! Decaying cannon costs me a trip to the dwarves Grand Exchange message is very uninformative. Gravemarker; thats pretty important, but its not enough! Here is what I propose. Colored messages. Its easy for these messages to get lost in a sea of "You load your cannon with 30 cannonballs You eat the monkfish. It heals some health. Someone else is fighting that You load your cannon with 30 cannonballs! Someone else is fighting that Your cannon has almost decayed! You load your cannon with 30 cannonballs! Your already being attacked by something! Your already being attacked by something! You load your cannon with 30 cannonballs! Your already being attacked by something! Your already being attacked by something! You load your cannon with 30 cannonballs! Your already being attacked by something!" This is very annoying for cannons in single combat, it displays a message for every monster it tries to hit. Colors Red is good, but is known for HD clanchat? Green is another option, but also used for lootshare? However, lootshare doesnt really spam, and isnt used very often. Blue is a good color also. All colors would be in a bolder text to stand out even more. I think we can also expand upon them. Gravemarker What the current message does is limited: yeah, now its gone, now go back to the bank and sob over your lost items. I think it should be the way familiars work. "Your gravestone will collapse in X minutes. (Above 10 minutes in intervals of 5, below 10 minutes, every minute). This would actually give it some use. Not so much maybe for the 3 minute markers, but for the GWD ones, instead of having to check clanchat for time left... Grand Exchange offers have been updated Yeah, really helpful. Now was it those green gloves I was selling for bottom yet still overpriced? Or those glory amulets and pure essence that I DESPERATELY NEED. I make my way back to the bank to find that I have 390 coins for some gloves, not my essence or glories. My proposal is make it so that it SAYS what item was updated in the GE, maybe even a count. "Your grand exchange offer has been updated : Bought : Amulet of Glory (4) x 3" or something. Jagex is creative. Dragonfire Potions/Sheilds The common use for dragonfire potions is for metal dragons, or higher level ones. I fail to see the need for two lines to be used. "Your shield protects you from blah blah. Your potion protects you from blah blah" We dont have prayers that go "your melee prayer has saved you..." so why have this? Iv missed so many messages from friends, clanchat, and other things because of this message spam. I propose only having the warning that its going to diminish soon (which I miss most of the time anyway) Summary Make these and many other important messages in red in the chatbox so their not missed, and make them more helpful. 99 Crafting :: 39,750th || 99 Attack :: 1,775th Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Observer Posted November 12, 2008 Share Posted November 12, 2008 Perhaps they can be a green or gold colour instead as red is used on HD clan chat. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LiChef Posted November 12, 2008 Share Posted November 12, 2008 Perhaps it should be instead of the message telling you what exactly has happened at the Grand Exchange it should tell you which box number has been done. For example, sticking with your items... Gloves are in box 1 and glories and ess are in blox 4 (presuming you're a member) Grand Exchange offer 1 has been completed. Something along those lines, although you'd have to remember what's in what box of course. Li Chef /m\_(-.-)_/m\"The sort of twee person who thinks swearing is any way a sign of lack of education or of a lack of verbal interest is just [bleep]ing lunacy" ~ Stephen Fry The Creativity Shack - A forum for Writers, Artists and Musicians Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sindarin00 Posted November 12, 2008 Share Posted November 12, 2008 How about that message for your antifire potion about to run out.... There is no need for 2 lines of text to show up per dragon fire that hits you, just plain ridiculous... I know myself I have missed that message "Your resistance to dragonfire is about to run out..." a few times myself. Add that and I support... but in Bold Green or Bold Blue maybe [hide=Drops]Barrows: Ahrim's Robeskirt (2) Dragon: Plateskirt (3) : Left Halfs (2) : Med Helm (1) : Boots (14) : Spear (3)Treasure Trails: Sara Platebody (1) Slayer: Leaf Bladed Sword (9) : Granite Helm (3) : Granite Maul (1) : Black Mask (3) : Abyssal Whip (2)Other: Obby Cape (1) : Obby Maul (2)Splits: Shield Left Half (1) : Dragon Med Helm (4)[/hide] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HoMM88 Posted November 12, 2008 Share Posted November 12, 2008 OMG! 100% support this is exactly what RS needs! My goals: [b]5M coins:[/b] 4350K+ coins 200k+ items - 2 dec 5M coins - 16 dec I [b]have gotten[/b] my 5M by christmas. -bah this is only here for historical purposes now, I got 20m+ already "fail,well atleast the title,i wont read it with that colours""If you hadn't posted in rainbow I would actually give this a proper read""Colours suck."*I remove colours*"Where did all the colors go!? This is now 40% more likely to be tl;dr'd due to the lack of colors." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fekambard Posted November 12, 2008 Share Posted November 12, 2008 Would be very useful but should be in a colour like green or purple to stand out from all other texts. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BloodArgon Posted November 12, 2008 Author Share Posted November 12, 2008 Red is clanchat, green is lootshare, I dont think anything uses blue. Maybe a bold blue color? Im sure changing ingame fonts is too hard... Thanks for the input everyone. And, I do think that the firebreath messages are extremely annoying. Iv missed so much there because they appear EVERY SINGLE time, especially when far-hitting (range/mage) metal dragons, and the messages appears every single hit. Im adding this to the list. 99 Crafting :: 39,750th || 99 Attack :: 1,775th Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
D. V. Devnull Posted November 12, 2008 Share Posted November 12, 2008 I'll support this... :thumbsup: BTW, Blue is used in ALL Normal Chat, as well as the Clan Chat Room Names... So how about yellow or orange, like with the system updates, since this is basically as vitally important as those? And how about placing it below the info for what item your mouse is over, in the top left of the game applet? :-s ~D. V. "That recoloring needs to happen, and soon." Devnull and normally with a cool mind.(Warning: This user can be VERY confusing to some people... And talks in 3rd person for the timebeing due to how insane they are... Sometimes even to themself.) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tard53 Posted November 12, 2008 Share Posted November 12, 2008 nice :thumbup: i support : heres a little suggestion about the grand exchange message: has anyone ever had an item that didnt sell and the it fell out of the price range and you didnt even know? As the price adjusts there should be either 1 of 2 things, either tell you a message that it fell or rose out of the price range OR change the price of the object as the actual price changes. So if you buy something for 5k and the price is 4-6k if the price went down to 2-4k, then since the price dropped 2k, then the item you are buying should drop down 2k. so it would be buying for 3k. This could be good if you dont want to make a trip to the ge or could be bad if you are short on cash and dont want to spend a little more. IMO the message one is better. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BloodArgon Posted November 13, 2008 Author Share Posted November 13, 2008 nice :thumbup: i support : heres a little suggestion about the grand exchange message: has anyone ever had an item that didnt sell and the it fell out of the price range and you didnt even know? As the price adjusts there should be either 1 of 2 things, either tell you a message that it fell or rose out of the price range OR change the price of the object as the actual price changes. So if you buy something for 5k and the price is 4-6k if the price went down to 2-4k, then since the price dropped 2k, then the item you are buying should drop down 2k. so it would be buying for 3k. This could be good if you dont want to make a trip to the ge or could be bad if you are short on cash and dont want to spend a little more. IMO the message one is better. Eh, the range issue isnt a very good idea. Say I left a BGS in there for 20M, mid price. It goes up 5M while Im on vacation. I ended up paying 2.5M extra that I didnt want to. 99 Crafting :: 39,750th || 99 Attack :: 1,775th Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wodfist Posted November 13, 2008 Share Posted November 13, 2008 Why not make the important messages appear on the gameplay screen like p. chat with split p. chat, but in bold red on the top of your screen Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
D. V. Devnull Posted November 13, 2008 Share Posted November 13, 2008 Why not make the important messages appear on the gameplay screen like p. chat with split p. chat, but in bold red on the top of your screen Red, due to several reasons, is an automatic "NO"... What do you think about yellow or orange? :geek: ~Mr. "The option you wish to have is already used elsewhere." Devnull and normally with a cool mind.(Warning: This user can be VERY confusing to some people... And talks in 3rd person for the timebeing due to how insane they are... Sometimes even to themself.) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zaaps1 Posted November 13, 2008 Share Posted November 13, 2008 OMG! 100% support this is exactly what RS needs! +1. Support ~It's Super Effective! (The Zaaps Blog)~My YouTube Channel, where you get to watch me go around and make a fool out of myself and all comp capersGuides:~Yeah I wrote them once~Suggestions:~Yeah I made those once~ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wa5t3dy0u7h Posted November 13, 2008 Share Posted November 13, 2008 well continuing support from viewtopic.php?f=30&t=769761 +4-5 i beleive.. http://forum.[Please Use QuickFind Code].ws?83,84,636,57893319 help me on the official forums... World 46 Regular Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dragonlordjl Posted November 14, 2008 Share Posted November 14, 2008 You forgot the bit about "Your Dragonfire Shield is already fully charged" :roll: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BloodArgon Posted November 15, 2008 Author Share Posted November 15, 2008 You forgot the bit about "Your Dragonfire Shield is already fully charged" :roll: Never owned one, wouldnt know, but yes, I suppose it could be included as an annoying message. 99 Crafting :: 39,750th || 99 Attack :: 1,775th Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Georgelemmons Posted November 15, 2008 Share Posted November 15, 2008 Great suggestion. 100% support : Thanks to Uno for the awsome sig <3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Juhnie Posted November 15, 2008 Share Posted November 15, 2008 Yes. Yes. YES. Support. Master of Attack ~ August 29th, 2010Proud to have served the awesome Tip.It Crew <3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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