Curse

momo2oo2 · Sep 07, 2005, 03:40 PM // 15:40

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Originally Posted by Chev of Hardass

BTW wispers are toggleable. Set yourself to Offline, after you get in your group. Or, I think busy works too.

Ok thanks, never used those status

Epinephrine · Sep 07, 2005, 04:04 PM // 16:04

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Originally Posted by Kampfkeks

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Originally Posted by Epinephrine
senseless try to bash me without even reading the starting post

This smilie will describe your post best:

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Originally Posted by Ashley Twig
So the green useless-text should be turn-offable while there should be a mission-chat which can't be turned off and should not include information like 'I'm attacking ----ed <whatever>'

Ok, point out where I said that. Oh, are you misquoting me? Funny that it doesn't surprise me that you can't even quote the right people.

You blast someone about the target calls when it's obvious that they know what they are. You try to blast me by quoting someone else and putting my name on it? Can you actually find your ass with a map? I doubt it.

Ashley's points are valid, there is much uneeded info spammed across the screen. I'd personally like to see much more customising - like a little mute button beside each person's name in the party box, and a little toggle there to turn on/off map drawings (from each person) so you can ignore the twit who doesn't know what he's doing/is drawing penes on the map.

You, however, try to pull a post apart like a prat, despite there being nothing wrong with it, and then prove that you can't use a quote button if your life depended on it... Wow, I hope you are young, because if you are an adult you really have no chance. Maybe you'll grow out of it.

Loviatar · Sep 07, 2005, 04:11 PM // 16:11

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Originally Posted by Ashley Twig

Yeah, she made the effort to elect against my request, after she first offered to help me with it.

If that's not a lie, what is?

And how much time does it take to remove a term from a list? 2 minutes?
Hey, if they want to charge me for the 2 minutes a programmer/developer gets. Fine, send me the bill, I'd pay for it.

here is the full response which shows you are selfish enough to consider a pet name you like more important than a major project and the reason it was not a *2 minute job*

the amount of time she spent typing it was more than an ingrate deserves

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Gaile Gray
ArenaNet

Sorry for casting "Resurrection" on this post. However, I've been asked to do so by the OP and out of respect for him, I will do so. Here is the situation as it stands:
The OP would like to use a particular name that contains a word that is currently blocked on the word filter.
The word was blocked intentionally, but I believe that the block was an error.
I checked, saw that it was blocked, and with all honesty felt that it would be an easy change to make to unblock it.
As it turns out, though, it is not an easy change to make because it involves global reimplementation of the filter list, and any changes involve six (and growing) languages.
[B]With significant changes in the form of Sorrow's Furnace and other planned updates, I decided to not request that we pull a programmer off of global changes for a single player's personal name request. (And let's be honest, if I had asked it, I would have been denied the request! "We're working on a major update, and you want us to what?" )We regret that it is not possible for us to unblock the word at this time. It simply is not as high a priority as are many other things that benefit all players.
I personally apologize if some of the many PM's and the Support tickets on this matter went unanswered. I have answered many of them and I really felt that I was being exceptionally accommodating for messages about a personal request from a single player.

I will be as forthright as I can with this now: We have not made the change. I errored in stating that it could be changed soon and I regret that. It was not a lie, and it was in no way a dismissive response. It was made as a friendly gesture and with the belief that we could make the change in a short timeframe. When I learned that this was a elaborate process, that it involved six languages, and that it would be impractical to open up the process for a single name, I tried but apparently failed to communicate that to the OP.
I believe that focusing on global changes that benefit all players is the correct choice, and that we should not prioritize a personal request above working on matters that positively impact hundreds of thousands of players.
I hope that this satisfies the matter fully, and am hopeful that everyone will see that this was handled as fairly and appropriately as possible.

talk about being selfish with an inflated ego

Kampfkeks · Sep 07, 2005, 04:22 PM // 16:22

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Originally Posted by Epinephrine

Yet another useless flamepost

I was referring EXACTLY to you.
But out of all, could anyone just tell me why you're jumping ME? I'm just defensive here for all i said was to force people to see Target calls and got immediate Crossfire from all sides with people twisting my posts and turning the words until a completely differnt meaning came out of it. You, Epinephrine are no different there and for the sake of peace and discussion, you've become a new ignorelist entry.

Now could all just stfu for a few seconds and calm down? Thank you. Then re-read what i wanted to state:
Force Target Calls to be visible, do with the rest as you please - but leave those visible with no way to deactivate them. Maybe implement a spam protection so you can't call the same target twice within 2 seconds.

@Ashley

/start of edit
Loviatar beat me at mentioning that incident
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And what to expect from someone who goes all moo about a Charactername and starts some serious namecalling? Not much. And i've not been disappointed with my judgement. Maybe you know what those target calls mean now and then, yet you still put them in a context where they were described as uselss junk along the lines of lootdrops .
And you really wonder why someone interprets that as a document of ignorance? Don't make me laugh.

If you've got problems with reading the "blue blur" you might want to visit a doctor for that. It could be a problem with your eyes (no offense, before someone starts trying to put up yet another flamepost) as i've never had a problem reading the text flowing in during a mission. Sure, the Trade and Localchat in Town gets all blurry, but the Teamchannel never has been much of a problem in missions - not even in the most moronic ones where all they did was spam targets all the time, like 20-50 times. You might also consider to enlargen the chatbox as that gives you some more time to read things.

Epinephrine · Sep 07, 2005, 04:43 PM // 16:43

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Originally Posted by Kampfkeks

I was referring EXACTLY to you.

No you weren't. A quote must come from the person you say you are quoting, otherwise it is slander (in this case, as it is written, libel).

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Originally Posted by Kampfkeks

But out of all, could anyone just tell me why you're jumping ME?

You misquoted me, typed an angry response to Ashley about target calls, implying that everyone else is an idiot, and you wonder why you got the cold shoulder?

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Originally Posted by Kampfkeks

You, Epinephrine are no different there...

Lol. I tried to explain things, by talking about what text was what colour... then you misquoted me and put up a cute "bashing head on wall" post. funny.

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Originally Posted by Kampfkeks

... and for the sake of peace and discussion, you've become a new ignorelist entry.

Fine, you ignored what I wrote anyway apprently, you can't quote me properly and think I was attacking you from the get go. You're definitely not worth paying attention to in my books, while I at least contribute to the discussions here.

momo2oo2 · Sep 07, 2005, 05:34 PM // 17:34

Ok, then anyone else /signs for more text [and cape, but this can come in a matter of hours] toggles?

I know flaming in the forum is addictive, but its not productive at all

Loviatar · Sep 07, 2005, 05:54 PM // 17:54

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Originally Posted by momo2oo2

Ok, then anyone else /signs for more text [and cape, but this can come in a matter of hours] toggles?

I know flaming in the forum is addictive, but its not productive at all

you can choose what chat you see why not the same with the rest?
click on what you need/want to see and the rest is automatically not shown. (or opt out for anything you dont want)

Ashley Twig · Sep 09, 2005, 08:02 AM // 08:02

So, summing it up, the UI lacks a certain degree if customizability.
Same seems to go for the sort-order of skills.
They changed it, so the default is now 'sort by attr.' instead of 'sort by name'.
Some like (as I read on some other thread), some don't.

Why didn't they change it in a way, that your sort order is saved (along with the many other infos they save on their server) in your character profile?
That way everybody would be happy.

Navaros · Sep 09, 2005, 08:38 AM // 08:38

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Originally Posted by Ashley Twig

What's with the green text that informs you about who has favor, how much more often somebody has to win the get favor, how much gold your party shares, what some mob drops that's reserved exclusively for you or somebody else, that tells you what you pick up or somebody else?

Who needs this information anyway?
I don't, that's for sure, and I would like to turn it off.

you forgot the most useless of all: green text every time you anyone in the same instance of you gains a skill point or level. nobody wants to see that if it's a stranger who you don't even know. it's so annoying. in large towns it's especially bad.

and you also forgot the most annoying green text of all: the green text that spams you constantly anytime there is a new version of Guild Wars available. you'd think the devs would respect the players more than to spam them constantly with no way for the player to avoid their endless barrage of spam other than to quit the game (which may not always be possible right away due to being on a mission etc.)

however i only partially agree with you. they should not just have a toggle as simple as "turn all green text off". people who win the HOH deserve to have their Guild name glorified for everyone to see via a green text message.

when items drop it's very good to have the green text as a reference point/safeguard in case you don't happen to see it on the ground

so if they are going to put toggles in for green text, it would only be useful if it was a series of many green text related toggles as opposed to just one single toggle, and the HOH message should not be toggleable ever.

Ashley Twig · Sep 09, 2005, 11:03 AM // 11:03

I don't know. Why force text on players that they don't want to see?

Except for the system-messages like 'new update, reconnect' they should all be toggleable.

Having to reconnect is bad, I agree, and I hope that aNet does those updates at times, when, statistically, there's the lowest load on the servers and as little users as possible are online.
It would sure be an increase of post-sales customer service quality to warn people a given time before the actual update.
Something along the lines of "Update will occur in x minutes".
That would give users time to reconsider the start of a new mission and would tell those who are on a mission to speed up.

Perishiko ReLLiK · Sep 09, 2005, 11:49 AM // 11:49

I myself only want to see what items drop for me, and i don't need to know if i pick it up... i think i can figure that out on my own.

I like seeing who holds the halls.

Sometimes i want to block out the called targets, as even if it's a crappy call i still target it... and they just spam it accross the whole chat screen (Can't "chat" then).

/Agreed (for the most part)