Coloured Chat

[Proper_Brgdbald]

Hooray! We can add colours to the chat!

While this is a neat addition, I'm not a fan of coloured text being default. I'd prefer white text, myself; it has excellent contrast to most things one would view in Minecraft. While the chatbox does make coloured text easier to read (by having a black background), white text would inherently be more visible.

Having most chat be white, with colours to signify importance would be my suggestion. This could be applied using a system like the chat channels we once had, but where you could opt-in to speak in a particular colour for your particular role.

Another example is like the broadcast command; you explicitly use a differentiating colour to garner attention, rather than always having that colour being shown.


On a side note, guest chat is the same colour as the /broadcast command. Despite the Broadcast logo, maybe a different colour could be chosen?

[Blue_Dwarf]

I would have to agree that I am a fan of regular white text for your everyday chatting.

I think the colored indicators next to your username are enough to identify different groups. Constantly having your chat colored kind of detracts from any sort of ability to command attention with specially colored chat.

[GrimmKaOs]

The point of the colored text form my understanding was to make it easier to differentiate who's saying what, so it not a flood of white text when we have 10+ people on. To this extent i think the addition has worked nicely and I for one like it.

[FanDango31]

I like it too. Its so much easier to read when there is a ton of people on during the evenings.

[TWolfWD]

Grimm is correct in that I tested out the chat colors for the purpose of making chat easier to read, and in that it succeeds. However, I do see how it can also get busy and even ugly. The correct answer, as suggested I think, would be to introduce a chat plugin that provides channels. I'll disable the chat color for the time being and start looking for something similar to what we once had.

As for the Guest chat color, I really with I could change the broadcast color. I like the green for new players, which we've used in the past. I'll go ahead and change that as well.

[Lady_Malice]

I started looking at a Spigot plugin called Mineverse Chat and sent it to Twolf to mess with. We might be busy this weekend, but we can test it out this week.

A link for anyone interested.

[Sigurther]

I'm torn on the whole chat colors thing. On one hand, I love being able to pick out staffers like THAT *snap*. On the other hand, my OCD cringes at the different text colors. It could go either way as far as I'm concerned, but the echelon indicators [S] [+] [M] [G] seem like they would be good enough on their own.

[Proper_Brgdbald]

I agree with Sigurther about the echelon indicators being good enough for differentiation.

Another suggestion would be to limit the palette to the subtler colours (not pure colours, but the lighter versions) as to prevent colour overload.

[TWolfWD]

I think we can agree then that the tags are enough. I'm still interested in the idea of using channels, but we can discuss that in a new thread that focuses on the subject.