How do you organize your in-game tabs ?

[rprandi]

title. How do you organize it? 

[TheZag]

The 1 2 3 4 chat tabs?

 

1 is NPC dialogue so i can remove their spam from the main window but still see cutscene captions.

 

2 is rewards so i can see my xp without it spamming my main chat window.

 

3 is event messages for hero, villain and praetorian so i can find whats happening on the server without scrolling back through all the chat.

 

4 is damage dealt so i can see my damage without it scrolling by at light speed while mixed in with the rest of the combat log.

 

[Sir Myshkin]

M

Help

Combat

Dam

LFG

G

 

Always in this order on every character.

• M: Rewards tab for XP/INF and also where Pet/NPC Chatter resides.
• Help: Help, of course, but I also put the Request channel here for Raids
• Combat: This is all combat logs sans damage
• Dam: This is all combat damage, if I'm running a MM I'll add another tab for Pet Damage (P-Dam)
• LFG: The LFG core channel and three other created LFG channels.
• G: General, just to keep it isolated. A place for the noise away from the other noise. I nearly never look in here.

[momentarygrace]

I always add a tab in the lower window for npc chat and cut scenes, and then drop those from any other tabs. That way when I want to know what the npcs are saying I can find it without clutter.

[Arc-Mage]

Bottom window is set to Rewards 98% of the time with Hero and Villain Zone event warnings. I have a second tab that reviews  DMG taken and given. 
 

I have three windows on top I toggle to depending on what I am doing in game. The first window is set up for all chat: local, broadcast, tells, friends etc. Second window is set up for team play: local, broadcast, tells, team. The third window is set for League play: local, broadcast, tells, league and request.
 

 

[biostem]

I create a tab in the lower right for rewards, one just above it for combat info, remove those things from the main chat window, but otherwise pretty much leave them alone.  I tend to do a lot more moving around and organizing with my power trays, TBH...

[Spaghetti Betty]

In the main window, I have the top half set to all server-wide chat channels. The bottom half is for more localized channels. NPC and cutscene dialogue is in a closed tab by itself. Combat channels are also tucked away in another tab. The only other thing I have open and visible is a tab that contains System, Reward, Error, and Market messages.

[JasperStone]

Almost everything gets a separate tab.

[Ukase]

I leave it the same way I found it, except I click on "1" to make a chat box specifically for SG chatter. 

 

[evetsleep]

Is there a way to save window configuration and placement so it is setup for each new alt?

[High_Beam]

I have the Global with a lot of stuff stripped out but all zone events added.  A lot of the items are duplicated in other tabs.  LFG stays here even though it gets cluttery and sometimes spammy.

 

I have Help for Help.

 

I have Combat for Combat.  If I have real pets (or a lot of pseudo-pet activity) that I want to review I sometimes parse out pet chat items into a separate tab.

 

I have General for General channel.  I like gabbing it up sometimes there but when clowns start on stupid things like panda conversations I have to have it not visible because I would shoot my computer

 

I have a Talk channel for the Coalition and SG chats

[Ironblade]

5 hours ago, evetsleep said:

Is there a way to save window configuration and placement so it is setup for each new alt?

Yes.

 

You can use  /chat_save  to save a default set-up and  /chat_load  to load it on every new character.

Alternatively, if you want multiple options, you can use  /chat_save_file "filename"  and then  /chat_load_file "filename"

Edited January 5, 2023 by Ironblade

[Ironblade]

My set-up would probably be annoying to many people.

 

The Global tab includes all global channels I'm on, plus Broadcast, Help and Rewards.

Help also gets a separate tab in case of an extended conversation or if I want to check back on something.  Rewards is the same story.

Combat is just combat rolls.

Tells tab is in case I miss a tell or want to look back.  PCSAR stands for Paragon City Search And Rescue.

 

The lower Chat tab includes: Local, Team, League, Supergroup, Tells and Hero/Villain/Praetorian zone alerts.

 

So, yeah, some busy chat windows.

[WumpusRat]

I'm at work so I can't take a screenshot, but basically I have it set up like this:

 

Top window

Combat (everything)

Pet Combat (I play a lot of MMs)

Loot (exp, drops, etc)

 

Bottom Window

Team/Local/Tells

LFG/Broadcast

Help

Global/General

Alerts (monsters, events, etc)

NPC Chatter

 

[ZorkNemesis]

Top Window

General: NPC Dialouge, nearly all combat text and hit rolls (pet stuff excluded), Broadcast, Request, all zone events

Rewards

NPC Dialouge

Zone Messages: Broadcast, Request, all Zone Events

 

Bottom Window

Chat: Local, Team, League, Supergroup, Emotes, /Tells

LFG: Looking for Group, /Tells

(/Tells on both tabs so I don't miss anything)

 

Side Window

Consignment House

Help

General (chat channel)

 

Probably forgetting something, I can confirm my setup in a little bit when I get home from work.

 

Edited January 6, 2023 by ZorkNemesis

[Scarlet Shocker]

I just wanna say that General Chat really annoys me. There is so much inane unrelatable shite that comes out of it - but just occasionally there's a gem - something I want and/or need

 

It seems there's a severe lack of an off topic "community" chat for stuff about coffee and wanking and shit your cat did (sometimes literally - along with the said location of feline depository) while General (which could be a very useful "catch all" channel for game relevant stuff that doesn't fit neatly into any of the other channels) gets swamped

 

Don't get me wrong - I have no issue with social channels existing and I do often take part in them but I don't want them clogging up my feeds when I'm trying to do stuff that I wanna do and currently General does seem to do that to the extent I have to hide it because not far removed from spam.

 

That said, I love the fact that people come to social in game and it's actually quite nice sometimes to take downtime and engage with it. I strongly feel a need for a dedicated "Social" channel where people can talk shit, post their stream of the day, talk about guitars vs organs, how much cooler my dog is than your cat (my dog wins, just so you know) and what my newest tropical fish is doing.

 

As I write this, it occurs to me this is a measure of HC's success and should perhaps be celebrated because we do have a community who wants to share stuff and we do have live active servers with a LOT of players on them at concurrent times - but it can be troublesome at the same time

[Shenanigunner]

I use tear-off Chats, too, primarily one for NPC and Team chat. However, this got broken in a recent update — Ish 25, p1 or 2 — and you can no longer /windowscale or adjust the chat text in these windows. Very frustrating.

 

[BlackSpectre]

I added a tab for Architect Chat and another for Arena Chat in the bottom windows so when I want to talk in these channels I can just select the tab and then select the tiny “a” at the bottom of the chat window to make them the active channel.  It’s the easiest way to use these channels. 
 

In the top window I have Global, LFG, Help, Combat, System, and All Channels tabs. 

[BlackSpectre]

4 hours ago, Shenanigunner said:

I use tear-off Chats, too, primarily one for NPC and Team chat. However, this got broken in a recent update — Ish 25, p1 or 2 — and you can no longer /windowscale or adjust the chat text in these windows. Very frustrating.

 

You can grab the edge of a custom chat display window with your mouse and resize it that way, but I don't see any way to change the font size of a custom chat display without changing the font size globally.

[Shenanigunner]

23 hours ago, BlackSpectre said:

You can grab the edge of a custom chat display window with your mouse and resize it that way, but I don't see any way to change the font size of a custom chat display without changing the font size globally.

 

Right, you can resize it, but you can't rescale it — I have my Chat stack scaled at (I think) 0.75, so the tear off window is noticeably larger in tab size, border, etc., and the text is about 25% larger as well. None of the commands that used to control these (chat3 or chat5 or such) work any more. Bummer.

[Shenanigunner]

On 1/12/2023 at 8:07 PM, BlackSpectre said:

I added a tab for Architect Chat and another for Arena Chat in the bottom windows so when I want to talk in these channels I can just select the tab and then select the tiny “a” at the bottom of the chat window to make them the active channel.  It’s the easiest way to use these channels.

 

Actually, it's easier than that. I have Help in the top pane and General in the next one down, and all the other chats in the third with Local set as the default. With that "a"ctive channel selected, you can switch entry to any of these (Help, General or Local) just by clicking in that pane. Don't even have to click the tab, and surez'ell don't have to click the right eeny-weeny button. 🙂