Seriously. It confuses so many new players and then they have to restart vo. It's the rudest prank in the game, worse than /roll. It's just generally so inconvenient when you're playing and hard to close the hippos when someone falls for it. I remember talk of it getting removed, so maybe next update on friday to remove the /displayshippos. Because it does *NOT* display ship pos(ition). It causes hippos to flash rapidly on the screen and messes up the interface and maybe even gives people seizures i don't know. Seriously though...Shouldn't it be put to rest?

Just make the hippo dialog easier to close. :P

But the hippos... they tell you where you are! You just don't speaks hippoese.

And I agree with slime. This is an "Easter Egg" keep it.

Yes please kill the Hippo's. They're dirty, smelly, and kill more people every year than any other animal (totally true).

While you're at it, please make to command do what it used to do.

I agree with making it easier to close...it's an amusing little egg, but it can be harsh on the new people.

/roll is at least fun to do. :P

Yeah, I was ingame earlier today and some noob got done with this. Very annoying for him.

It's simply bad manners to put a noob through that.

Aye, I say we just make it easier to close, maybe even an arrow saying x <--- Close me here! for those who are entranced by the lovely hippos.

Seriously, its an "Easter Egg", and we don't have many, keep it.

Well I guess I just miss how it is an easter egg or rather how it is at all "fun". But Making it easier to close and not removing it is totally a great compromise. Because that in fact is the main problem is...it's not as obvious or easy to close so perhaps a better way to close it and/or maybe a command to close it like /killshippos (hehe) or something to that effect. But it would be better if there was an obvious way to close it.

Now, what if those were wildebeests, hm?

The command should just be made into a toggle, first time you use it the window opens, the second time you use it the window closes.

The latest update has addressed this.

/displayshippos a second time makes the Hippos go away now.

there's only one small problem with this, you can't open chat after /displayshippos..... (or do anything else besides opening console for that matter)
so unless someone opens console and figures to type it there he's no better off then before...

Hahahaha. Awesome "fix," GS.

Yes. <sigh>. I am not responsible.

I supported a reduction in skill points, credits and/or levels to those who encourage the command on 100 to new players.

weird... when i type /displayshippos i get the runs.
sort of invigorating.
..but that's just me.