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Allow /me to work in group chat

Mar 09, 2010 Aticephyr link
Is there any reason it currently doesn't work?
Mar 09, 2010 ShankTank link
Yes, kill/death notifications.
Mar 09, 2010 Dr. Lecter link
Chaak wins big.
Mar 09, 2010 Aticephyr link
Darn. That's exceptionally annoying. Moving on then.
Mar 09, 2010 Nihm link
make kill/death notifications notify the entire sector again! Like it used to back in the day...
Mar 09, 2010 Strat link
Am I missing something here? Couldn't they easily have the kill/death notifications work differently so we could fix this. Just use different syntax/formatting that can't be emulated by typing /me. Right?
Mar 09, 2010 Impavid link
or a different color....
Mar 09, 2010 Strat link
or a different color....

Yeah. That's what I was thinking. It sounds like the simplest way to solve the problem.
Mar 09, 2010 Dr. Lecter link
So you cannot speak in the third person in group. Big fucking deal. Return on invested time is so Goddamn low here that even a daytrader trying to supplement his McDonald's earnings from a computer in mommy's basement could see it's a bad trade.
Mar 09, 2010 Impavid link
Dude, Lecter, you're such a smart dude, and I'm not too shabby with the clever myself. Between the two of our bigass brains we couldn't figure out WTF you're on about...
Mar 09, 2010 Dr. Lecter link
A long-winded way of saying that "fixing" this would be a waste of Dev time even if it only took one of them 15 minutes.
Mar 10, 2010 Aticephyr link
Inconsistencies are annoying, and can put people off (and on many occasions reveal deeper problems). It also makes writing plugins somewhat more annoying.
Mar 10, 2010 toshiro link
Nihm's on the right path here. Sector-wide death messages coming back would be neato.

I want to see "<insert charname> has issues" again.

Not to enable TPM in group chat, but for the comic value of it.
Mar 10, 2010 ShankTank link
Player1 Player2

Player3 Player1

Player3 Player3

Player3 is having issues

^^ Counter-strike style!
Mar 10, 2010 Willis link
I remember back when the death messages were displayed in sector chat. It was cool because you could see who killed who all the time and who was suiciding themselves with flares haha. Bring it back!