Chat (Clickable names? Color?)

Hey there! Sorry if this is the wrong place ^___^;;

I saw this in King Moogle Mog, not too long ago... And I was wondering how does someone post names into chat that are clickable.. they dont do anything, but they have the brackets around the name.. and if you click on it you will see "No subcommands available"..

http://imgur.com/MkNWe6s
^From my chat log earlier

Even before that, I was in a Duty finder for turn 1, and people were talking... with colors O.o... I've never seen this before.. and was really curious, but never got an answer on how they did this.

http://imgur.com/gMxRqaz
^Screenshot from chat with colors D:

Any information will be greatly appreciated. I really really surprised to see linked named you could click on, and even more so to see you can colorize your chat ((Other then settings))

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Originally Posted by Lynvina

Even before that, I was in a Duty finder for turn 1, and people were talking... with colors O.o... I've never seen this before.. and was really curious, but never got an answer on how they did this.

http://imgur.com/gMxRqaz
^Screenshot from chat with colors D:

Any information will be greatly appreciated. I really really surprised to see linked named you could click on, and even more so to see you can colorize your chat ((Other then settings))

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Greetings,

The ability to change chat colors is actually a bug that is planned to be addressed. We've been seeing players asking if it's okay to use these different colors, or if it's against the rules. As such, Hiroshi Minagawa, Lead UI artist, has posted a response about this that we’d like to share with you.

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Originally Posted by Hiroshi_Minagawa

First off, the ability to change text color like this is in fact a bug that was not addressed during chat development.

After making edits to a separate feature planned for patch 2.38, this bug was coincidentally fixed, and with the latest development version of the game the ability to change chat color like this is no longer possible.

*Similarly, the bug that allowed you to use code to make special characters will also no longer be possible.

Patch 2.35, which will be released soon, will not have the above fixes applied yet, so it will still be possible to do these things.

As an official response from the development and operations teams in regards to whether these techniques should be used in the current version and patch 2.35, since these features have not been certified, we’d like players to refrain from using them.

If you are just having fun with a friend and showing off that you know something special, we don't want to say this is not allowed. However, with an MMORPG, depending on how you use certain features there is a possibility of disturbing other players, so we would appreciate it if you could refrain from using features that have not been confirmed.

With that said, we do not have any plans to release an official feature for changing chat color like this when sending messages to others. The reason being there are cases where it could be used to disturb others.

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Originally Posted by Hiroshi_Minagawa

The reason being there are cases where it could be used to disturb others.

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I don't mean to object to this in any way. I'm am simply curious as to how color modding words in the chat log could be used to disturb players. I wish to gain perspective. Can you give an example?

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Originally Posted by Darki

I don't mean to object to this in any way. I'm am simply curious as to how color modding words in the chat log could be used to disturb players. I wish to gain perspective. Can you give an example?

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Well for players like myself some colors can be extra strain to the eyes when trying to read. I have had to leave a few runs due to players using this.

Great. Will be happy to see those annoying macros in frontlines disappear.

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Originally Posted by Darki

I don't mean to object to this in any way. I'm am simply curious as to how color modding words in the chat log could be used to disturb players. I wish to gain perspective. Can you give an example?

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Exesive use of color in chat, at least for me, is very annoying more if i can't control it.

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Originally Posted by Darki

I don't mean to object to this in any way. I'm am simply curious as to how color modding words in the chat log could be used to disturb players. I wish to gain perspective. Can you give an example?

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People use colors to differentiate chat channels (tell is a different color from say, which is a different color from linkshell, etc.). When players use alternate colors it can be confusing.

All I want is to have a chat lock when changing chat.

Example: you are in /say chat, when your party member say something to you. you type /p [insert text], and then its locked into Party until you change it again with /fc or any other ones available.

That way, if you typed something that wasn't meant for anyone else than the person you want to send it to, the embarrassment if ever, that comes from making a mt, won't exist.

Like shouting and then you want to answer to an FC mate, to see it went to Shout >.<

Thank you.

when are you guys gonna fix the "confirm" key so that it won't randomly trigger the enter-text command?? It's super annoying. And yes. The bug still exists because it doesn't work even if the enter-text command key is completely unbound with any key. Hitting the "confirm" key (most of the time happens when hitting it to attempt to engage a mob right after dismounting) it'll randomly go in text-command mode instead. Please fix this! Urgent! The bug's been there since alpha test phase!

Aww this sucks, I was hoping to figure out how this whole thing works.
I saw the below letters, and was like wow that's cool. It reminds me of back when i was a teen and i was hunting trying to find out how people were typing ascii stuff like ¥ £ ² etc etc. I'd much rather they find a way in between this situation. Find a way to keep it available to people that want to use it and show it off. But make a option for people to disable it, so it doesn't bother them.

http://i.imgur.com/OUPjFmo.png?1

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Originally Posted by KingOfAbyss

All I want is to have a chat lock when changing chat.

Example: you are in /say chat, when your party member say something to you. you type /p [insert text], and then its locked into Party until you change it again with /fc or any other ones available.

That way, if you typed something that wasn't meant for anyone else than the person you want to send it to, the embarrassment if ever, that comes from making a mt, won't exist.

Like shouting and then you want to answer to an FC mate, to see it went to Shout >.<

Thank you.

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Did you know that if you just use the chat channel command (like /say, /p, /l, /l2, /fc, etc) that the default channel will change to that specific channel? So, if you for instance type /p followed by Enter/Confirm, the chatbar will turn blue with the “Party”-caption in front of it and the text you type after that will defaultly be sent to the party chat.

You can also click on the “Say” to change it to another default channel.

Edit: After reading your post again, I think you did know about that, but you're asking them to change the default chat channel after sending a message to that particular channel?

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Originally Posted by KingOfAbyss

All I want is to have a chat lock when changing chat.

Example: you are in /say chat, when your party member say something to you. you type /p [insert text], and then its locked into Party until you change it again with /fc or any other ones available.

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This is working correctly as intended. If you want to change (permanently) to another chat channel like Party just type "/p [ENTER]" and it will stay in that channel untill next change. However if you want to send (one idividual) message to another channel - let's being in FC one and posting to Party you'll use "/p text" to not change the channel - that's on purpose. If it would be changed as you suggest it will be not possible to send "one off" messages to another channels without constant permanent switching between them.

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Originally Posted by HEC-

This is working correctly as intended. If you want to change (permanently) to another chat channel like Party just type "/p [ENTER]" and it will stay in that channel untill next change. However if you want to send (one idividual) message to another channel - let's being in FC one and posting to Party you'll use "/p text" to not change the channel - that's on purpose. If it would be changed as you suggest it will be not possible to send "one off" messages to another channels without constant permanent switching between them.

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Yah it could actually make the chance of an MT worse...

I was wondering if it's possibly to add an extra tab that shows everything. It'd be nice to see my damage dealt while chatting with friends and not having to switch tabs.

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Originally Posted by Rydia13

I was wondering if it's possibly to add an extra tab that shows everything. It'd be nice to see my damage dealt while chatting with friends and not having to switch tabs.

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you can have up to 4 chat tabs, and you can show or not show whatever you want in them.
to add more tabs you hit the + symbol
to edit the settings for the tabs either click the gear symbol on the chat section or go to Character Settings>Chat(this is the last thing on the windows version)
there will be a button for each chat in those settings that will bring up a window to who what it will and won't display
I'm not sure if this is the same on the PS3 version but fairly sure it is the same on the PS4 version

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Originally Posted by Bayohne

Greetings,

The ability to change chat colors is actually a bug that is planned to be addressed. We've been seeing players asking if it's okay to use these different colors, or if it's against the rules. As such, Hiroshi Minagawa, Lead UI artist, has posted a response about this that we’d like to share with you.

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Originally Posted by KingOfAbyss

All I want is to have a chat lock when changing chat.

Example: you are in /say chat, when your party member say something to you. you type /p [insert text], and then its locked into Party until you change it again with /fc or any other ones available.

That way, if you typed something that wasn't meant for anyone else than the person you want to send it to, the embarrassment if ever, that comes from making a mt, won't exist.

Like shouting and then you want to answer to an FC mate, to see it went to Shout >.<

Thank you.

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You can change your Keybind settings so that using alt+p or alt+f or whatever for switching chats, locks the chat into that chatroom.

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Originally Posted by Bayohne

Similarly, the bug that allowed you to use code to make special characters will also no longer be possible.

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All special chars? I hope not... I always thought some of the special chars people use to make little images added a fun dimension to an otherwise boring chatlog...

I agree that some of the ones in ST (etc) can be annoying, but I've seen some really creative and cool ones as well.

The colors I understand, since color can determine who's speaking from what channel based on your settings, and people could probably abuse that if really wanted to... Why the chars tho?

I vote compromise. No colors but characters stay. <3

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Originally Posted by Darki

I don't mean to object to this in any way. I'm am simply curious as to how color modding words in the chat log could be used to disturb players. I wish to gain perspective. Can you give an example?

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I can give an example: RMT SPAM

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Originally Posted by Bayohne

Greetings,

The ability to change chat colors is actually a bug that is planned to be addressed. We've been seeing players asking if it's okay to use these different colors, or if it's against the rules. As such, Hiroshi Minagawa, Lead UI artist, has posted a response about this that we’d like to share with you.

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Why not let us have some fun for once? To tell you the secret, it's entirely possible to harrass Lalafels with Krakka Roots in this game if someone really wanted to. Does that mean you should remove Lalafels or Krakka Roots from the game to prevent possible harassment/abuse? Maybe leave that for GMs to solve in case someone feels wronged by coloured text in their chat.
You're way too paranoid here.
It's an awesome function (changing colour of text to emphasize words, linking items I don't have in my inventory at the moment, making coloured ASCII art...), even if unintended and I have some good fun using it with friends.
Let me keep having fun and go do something about RMT, bots and real bugs or shortcomings of the game.