Chat bubble limit far too short.

[Wasselin]

Why can't they just let us decide how many characters we want on the screen.

[TheDustyOne]

The character/line limit feels far too restrictive and makes the speech bubbles feel pointless. The point of having them is so I can keep a conversation with the people I'm close to without having to dart my eyes to the corner of my screen to read what they're saying.

[CidHeiral]

I totally agree, and in case this thread drops off at some point, I've had one going in the much slower moving Interface Subforum.

[Underscore]

It's so bizarre that they added an option to limit the size, but made 2 lines the absolute maximum. Why even give us the choice at that point?

People are just going to keep using the plugin.

[Bibine_Bine]

I agree that it could be a lot bigger. I understand there being a character limit but basically being two-ish sentences feels a bit too small.

[Arrius]

Why can't they just let us decide how many characters we want on the screen.

Probably building carefully upwards, so nothing crazy happens with it, from the system itself and from the players by doing funny things with the chat bubbles by entering weird text strings or a whole length of words stuck together into a single one.

[Daralii]

Probably building carefully upwards, so nothing crazy happens with it, from the system itself and from the players by doing funny things with the chat bubbles by entering weird text strings or a whole length of words stuck together into a single one.

I think it's more likely that it's what was theorized earlier in this thread, namely that they designed the limit around katakana and kanji and decided it was good enough.

[Bunyon]

imagine if you will, walking into balmung. and seeing now, not only all the characters needing to load, but now additionally all the chat bubbles that move at a mind blowing speed. add into that all the spam chatter, macro emotes. it's ....idk man. just not a good idea in my mind.
Yes i'm taking it to the extreme of a heavily populated world. but that's where the stress testing of it needs to be looked at.

edit: ...what's wrong with in terms of RP as you brought it up....looking at the already resizeable text box provided?

I feel like I'm on crazy pills, goddamn.

"Imagine if you saw these huge text boxes everywhere, wouldn't that be awful?!"

They give you MULTIPLE OPTIONS to select the MAXIMUM SIZE AND TEXT of the bubbles. If I was in the scenario you described, I'd lower that maximum! What are you talking about?? No one is asking for a complete redo of the feature, just an upper limit. If they programmed this feature properly, this is likely a single variable that needs to be increased. "It's has to be stress tested" NO IT DOESN'T JUST LOWER IT IF ITS ANNOYING, ITS AN OPTION

[Atreides]

I'd also rather if they let us decide how cluttered or not we want our screens to be. Limiting to this small size however is disappointing. Also the duration is too short! I really hope they work on that.

[Kunzite_Lockhart]