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numenra
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Ok so I have been playing now for almost a month and the most annoying and recurring issue I have right now is the box reward texts. Is there no way at all to disable this!?
I'm at my wits end while doing my missions, reading NPC chats and such and I have to see that Capt Shmoe has won something. What in the heck is the reason for this, it serves me not one ounce of good let alone care so why is this there.
Now if this has been brought up before, which I'm sure it has forgive this but I had no particular thought on what someone may have titled their complaint on this to read a previous thread.
I'm at my wits end while doing my missions, reading NPC chats and such and I have to see that Capt Shmoe has won something. What in the heck is the reason for this, it serves me not one ounce of good let alone care so why is this there.
Now if this has been brought up before, which I'm sure it has forgive this but I had no particular thought on what someone may have titled their complaint on this to read a previous thread.
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You can disable it by going into the notification settings
Under the Fly By section
As Zatharus said, just disable Fly By and it'll stop.
Of course, Cryptic knows this and is in no hurry to change it, since lockbox advertising is good for business.
"We are smart." - Grebnedlog
Member of Alliance Central Command/boq botlhra'ghom
Of course, that may also be why the Admin announcement is separate from the Gameplay announcement setting.
That's great. But I still think the game shouldn't announce "Average Joe has been awarded a Galor-cruiser".
When I got my Temporal Science Vessel, the first thing that happened?
I was literally inundated with PMs saying "Hey, want to trade/sell that to me?"
And if you are like me, and you don't really care what ship someone luckier than me just got, you can uncheck the chat button too, and not even see them there.
Jolan'tru
In all fairness. The pink text in the chat window is hard to ignore. So even if the fly-by is disabled, you can still get fair warning.
By contrast, the "Average Joe is more awesome than you" text is the same as general gameplay and is therefore easily lost among the "Enemy shields are offline" messages.
Like commercials on TV. You are aware of them but not really there.
"We are smart." - Grebnedlog
Member of Alliance Central Command/boq botlhra'ghom
1) That text doesn't need to be pink. In fact I'm pretty sure the default is yellow.
2) You can disable the chat window text with the check box right next to the flyby check box.
It IS super annoying and I feel sorry for those who are very new to the game and don't want to see that text.
However, considering the relative rarity of getting an actual ship ( 1 in 250 boxes, supposedly), if they didn't have those messages, you'd have people believing that they only way to really get a ship is to be a Cryptic employee or something. Cryptic needs people to know that those ships really are being won (sometimes) to entice people to buy keys.
As far as I know you can't change the colour of the Admin messages
That whole message is designed with the intention of making you spend a bunch of Zen in keys to open boxes so that you can "see your name in lights".
I have always seen Dev names as pink, and I have NEVER seen any ship notification as pink. ALWAYS yellow for me.
Server shutdowns and such are pink, but that's not the same channel as the ship notifications.
Edit:
Just logged in and checked: "System" message default color is yellow and can be changed.
The dev/server shutdown, etc messages are pink by default, and can't be changed.
Sounds like some one changed "System" messages to pink and doesn't have "Gameplay" notifications turned off.
These are always in pink, and generally can't be disabled.
By Pink I was refering to the maintenance/admin messages which are default of pink. The idea was, in response to the post quoted, Maintenance notices (which we assume everyone wants to see) are harder to ignore and thus miss, if one disables fly-bys.
Again, the point is that the Maintenance notice, which is in pink in the chat window, would be visible and thus not missed over the course of normal gameplay.
By contrast, The "Average Joe won Lock Box Ship X" is the same color as your various "Hull strength is 75%" and "the Enemies shields are down" messages, which makes them, even if they are in the chat window, easily lost and ignored.