Speech Bubbles - Thoughts?

[Xmbei]

obviously I don't know what I am talking about... when you haven't even seen the rp's I am talking about. Good job taking over my life and saying what I do or don't know what I am talking about.

[TessaJalloh]

obviously I don't know what I am talking about... when you haven't even seen the rp's I am talking about. Good job taking over my life and saying what I do or don't know what I am talking about.

sounds more like you jumped to conclusions and made false evidence to support your case. (()) has been the OOC indicator for decades of forum/mud/game/chatroom roleplay. it differentiates what is being said in character with what is being said out of character in an instantly recognisable way to other rpers. Naturally everyone has to learn this at some point, but it's usually done by asking what they're for, instead of getting pissed off at their use.

There are plenty of people who put actions in their ooc aswell, such as prodding someone, hugging someone or similar, it's not RP in the narative sense, but just the general chat room stuff that i'm sure you yourself have used from time to time.

I think you're getting faaar too aggrovated over something so completely off of this thread's topic.

back to the topic at hand, Speech bubbles... don't really care for them, don't have anything against them if they don't get in my way personally. A chat log with permanently recorded text will always be better than a 3 second pop up.

[Majidah]

sounds more like you jumped to conclusions and made false evidence to support your case. (()) has been the OOC indicator for decades of forum/mud/game/chatroom roleplay. it differentiates what is being said in character with what is being said out of character in an instantly recognisable way to other rpers. Naturally everyone has to learn this at some point, but it's usually done by asking what they're for, instead of getting pissed off at their use.

There are plenty of people who put actions in their ooc aswell, such as prodding someone, hugging someone or similar, it's not RP in the narative sense, but just the general chat room stuff that i'm sure you yourself have used from time to time.

I think you're getting faaar too aggrovated over something so completely off of this thread's topic.

back to the topic at hand, Speech bubbles... don't really care for them, don't have anything against them if they don't get in my way personally. A chat log with permanently recorded text will always be better than a 3 second pop up.

I think an ideal solution would be to keep the chat-log, with toggleable bubbles for those who don't want them, making it so that the user could disable the log from auto-opening on every message. If memory doesn't fail me that's how PSO worked. You had everything kept in a log which you could open if you wanted.

That way a user who wasn't interested in the chat-log for something other than double checking what was said could keep the chat-box hidden at all times.

But generally speaking when playing in a party you don't need to read a message for more than a few seconds.
It'd be a lot more action oriented if when someone needs to trigger something to just have the message pop up in the middle of the screen (this actually follows the same logic SE used for pop up 3d text on damage numbers).

I personally wouldn't use the bubbles for stuff like linkshell chat. But I see them a lot better for things like say and party than the chat box.