Create some way to Filter Chat During Senate Debates.

Create some way to Filter Chat During Senate Debates.
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Jinook

Jinook

Proposal
Somehow make it easier to follow along with the senate debates with all the chat spam.
Justification
Its hard for even some senators to follow along with how much chatter goes flying by.
Motivation
It'll make the event more professional in the sense there will be clarity in informing the voters.
The past couple Senate debates have gotten very hard to keep track of chat log wise.
One suggestion is maybe Muting Spatial in the Vicinity of the debate and letting us goof around like they do in galaxy chat.
Another Option perhaps is having a spatial mute timer maybe?
Or some way to filter just what the developers, Senators are saying into a chat like System that has nothing else spamming in it?
The Town hall Rabble Rabble was funny the first time, Second kinda funny, but it's probably gonna get old and might send the wrong idea about the community to new people as we grow.
 
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MrBloodworth said:
Somehow i could only see the Hosts chats, i could not see any responses.
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I had a few chats going at once hoping to log the events.... Kinda became a fools errand and decided to just take mental notes.

Thats a weird one thou. Only the dev comments could be seen?
 
Jinook said:
I had a few chats going at once hoping to log the events.... Kinda became a fools errand and decided to just take mental notes.

Thats a weird one thou. Only the dev comments could be seen?
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Yes, only the ones in the space station window that pops up. Is that a me thing? Mabye. Perhaps I turned something off.
 
MrBloodworth said:
Yes, only the ones in the space station window that pops up. Is that a me thing? Mabye. Perhaps I turned something off.
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Spatial chat you mean?
You have chats setup and can create and modify tabs.

The rub with the event I'm talking about is that everythings happening in Spatial which gives no way to filter it.

Like how an Entertainer Might Do a Tell Tab only to see Tells of clients.

Or a System Tab for updates etc.


I run a tab I call Battle thats just System and combat chatter So I can look over after a fight what happened etc.
 
Maybe instead of a mute for the people coming. You could change the color of the text from the candidates/host/GMs so it's easier to see in your chat?
 
TyDurden said:
Maybe instead of a mute for the people coming. You could change the color of the text from the candidates/host/GMs so it's easier to see in your chat?
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One idea another mentioned to me was just the slowing chat for non dev and candidate spatial chat.
 
TyDurden said:
Maybe instead of a mute for the people coming. You could change the color of the text from the candidates/host/GMs so it's easier to see in your chat?
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I even tried changing my color and it did not work. So I can see this as a viable optiont which may be easier to implement. - Choi
 
MrBloodworth said:
Is spatial /say? Or something elese.

I was referring to the small window, as if I am talking to space station complete with player portrait. Thats all i could see.
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Here I'm Almost never one to shy away from a attempt at a helpful explanation.

Spatial Chat is /say and any emotes etc, including the information to who your speaking /say>jinook How's my favorite Schmedi?

Comes out as you say to Jinook "How's my favorite Jedi?"

But System is stuff like /tip jin 1
Or the Mail messages or some such You've got mail or Squad leaders Group message.
Normally its defaulted to show up at the top of the screen briefly but can be tweaked how long its there or to not be there at all.


The Special Image Devs do for speaking you see it in Chronicler quests or actual Game Quests
Is a command for Message from Character. Devs can do it on command.
Yes Space Stations use this command to speak in space, there is also space npc chatter that can be toggled on and off.

The Spatial chat is logged in a chat tab that is set to record Spatial Chat.
Which includes the Chatter Speak (Pop up messages)

Create a new tab by right clicking the chat box, right click it again to customize it and you'll see the list of chats that it can allow to be seen/filter



The Problem I'm asking about here is the fact everyone is spamming there cheers, compliments, back handed compliments, Constructive insults, Memery and silly Goose ideas in the town hall setup.

I wanted to track just what the devs and the Candidates said I have to sit there and type up what there saying like I'm in a court room or Record the whole thing video wise.

This happened at the past three debates and with the population growth in attendance it doesn't show signs of just going away on its own.
 
andyraybob said:
Upvoted definitely, but I would suggest expanding it to include ALL staff-sponsored events.
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That is an idea for sure I'd be interested in as well. Hoping with the upvotes here it might just change the over all policy of public events.
If the Dev's see enough people seem unhappy with the the way these debates are going whatever tool or tactic they cook up will hopefully be used for things across the board for dev events.

If not we can do a PV to push for that as well.
 
Add an "Events" chat channel that only people with permission can write in - but everyone else can read
Then during the event add the candidates to the "write" permission list.
This is universal approach that can be reutilized for all events and not exclusive to the candidates.
It also allows filtering by that channel with the chat logic already in place
 
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