Fix the Helper/Roleplaying/Help Me Tag on Characters with Gold Titles (Revert the Dumb Change)

[Wravis]

Having a gold title makes it so that I am not visibly flagged as a roleplayer any more. This is very inconvenient. At least on Everlasting, plenty of players used pink names to show when they are in character and looking for RP. Now there's no way to show that, for those of us fortunate enough to have earned a special title.

The change to how flagging yourself as Roleplaying/Helper/Help Me was pointless and unhelpful. Revert the change. Or at least make it so that if you have a gold title, you still show your flag as well.

[skoryy]

The tag does need to be moved, I can barely read AFK messages through them anymore.

[Glacier Peak]

The change to role titles was a short term solution to a problem.  It created unfortunate changes to other players experience at the expense of addressing said problem. Based on discussions I had before this change went live, I don't see it being reverted. But if the change was as impactful to the player experience as others have pointed out, perhaps that will be incentive enough for the developer who made this change to make more of an effort to compromise instead of making one player's experience less fun than another player.

[Wravis]

6 hours ago, Glacier Peak said:

The change to role titles was a short term solution to a problem.  It created unfortunate changes to other players experience at the expense of addressing said problem. Based on discussions I had before this change went live, I don't see it being reverted. But if the change was as impactful to the player experience as others have pointed out, perhaps that will be incentive enough for the developer who made this change to make more of an effort to compromise instead of making one player's experience less fun than another player.

What problem did having colored names cause?

[Glacier Peak]

2 hours ago, Wravis said:

What problem did having colored names cause?

My understanding is players with visual impairments were unable to differentiate between those who were on their team and those who were tagged as "Help Me" role tagged. I noted a suggestion was made prior to the change below and a variation of that suggestion was what was implemented. 

 

 

 

I have requested an alternative and am confident the developer who made the change is able to find a solution in the future which addresses the new problem that was created by their fix.

 

 

[Wravis]

They couldn't pick a different color for Help Me? I support making changes to accommodate disability, but don't inconvenience a large portion of the community with a half-baked change just to do it.

I get not caring about the few people with gold titles. Not a lot of them out there.

But the tags block afk messages now, which plenty of RPers use to denote character traits. And they don't show at all on people with gold titles. 

There's a better solution.

Edited August 8 by Wravis

[Glacier Peak]

4 hours ago, Wravis said:

They couldn't pick a different color for Help Me? I support making changes to accommodate disability, but don't inconvenience a large portion of the community with a half-baked change just to do it.

I get not caring about the few people with gold titles. Not a lot of them out there.

But the tags block afk messages now, which plenty of RPers use to denote character traits. And they don't show at all on people with gold titles. 

There's a better solution.

I won't speak for the developer who made this change, but I was given the impression that any kind of middle ground would be impossible to implement in a timely fashion.