Duty Finder Notifications Feature?

A lot of the time I'll minimize the game to look at funny videos or sit on 9gag or just surf these forums while I have a duty finder going.

I know that you can just enable volume while minimized and maximize only the system sounds audio option, but sometimes it's hard to hear over other things going on and you miss it. It's also a tedious option.

Maybe even having the icon in the tray blink when it pops is enough, just SOMETHING.

If you cant be bothered to pay attention to the game then don't queue. Simple as that.

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Originally Posted by necrosis

If you cant be bothered to pay attention to the game then don't queue. Simple as that.

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Or maybe I don't want to sit at my computer chair staring blankly at a queue timer for 10 minutes.

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Originally Posted by necrosis

If you cant be bothered to pay attention to the game then don't queue. Simple as that.

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yes
because sitting and waiting for 30 mins if youre dps to do a run is fun.
and sometimes, i do not want to craft or lvl another class. :I

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Originally Posted by Luxx

yes
because sitting and waiting for 30 mins if youre dps to do a run is fun.
and sometimes, i do not want to craft or lvl another class. :I

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Exactly my point!

I was thinking about this today. I want to lift weights in my apartment and people coming in and out want to talk. I try to pay attention to the screen but get distracted. We can control the sound chat makes; can we control the sound this makes? Turn duty finder pop volume up or make it another loud sound? I can't hear it and I don't want to blast the game. Tho I try I'm not always looking at the screen when it pops.

I'm on PS3 but I'm down with Onyx suggestion as well. Option to make it flash?

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Originally Posted by necrosis

If you cant be bothered to pay attention to the game then don't queue. Simple as that.

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You've clearly never played a dps class. Wait time can take up to an hour or more. No one wants to stare at a screen that long.

http://i.imgur.com/xAvYQC6.jpg
It wouldn't hurt. Simple as that.

im not sure how well it would work, but if you hooked a ps4 controller up to your pc, it has a speaker that chimes pretty loudly when your queue is ready. but again, im not sure if there is 100% working drivers for the ps4 controller on pc yet, as i have yet to try it myself.

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Originally Posted by Crankysorc

http://i.imgur.com/xAvYQC6.jpg
It wouldn't hurt. Simple as that.

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Similar problem. http://puu.sh/8mMbc

Enable the client to play sounds while minimized, sit in your inn room, adjust pc volume with the volume mixer.

Fixed.

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Originally Posted by Cid_Grim

Enable the client to play sounds while minimized, sit in your inn room, adjust pc volume with the volume mixer.

Fixed.

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Or a neat thing they can do is make it so FF becomes "active" in the taskbar. Like make it glow orange.
Blinking is too... Eh. I prefer the glow.
Because whenever i alt tab i instinctively turn my volume down because my other background programs make a lot of unneeded noise if something happens.

A method you can use is to enable background sound when the game is minimized. Then, disable all sounds except master volume and system sound volume.

That way, when you are tabbed out and doing other stuff, the game will remain quiet until the DF queue pops and then it will play the notification sound.

I am impartial when it cones to this because i just leave FF in windowed mode and make it so i can see the duty notice pop up while doing other things.

Heck, i just learned now that you can enable background noise. Thanks thread!