Feature Request: Button to Open Playernotes on Friends/Ignore UI (w/ Mockup)

[mechahamham]

I was cleaning out my ignore list a few days ago. I try to do so every so often because... people have bad days and say things they don't mean. Or they've come from another game and are used to the nasty culture there and have yet to grow into CoH's more positive, welcoming culture. Or any of a legion of reasons they don't need to be permanently ignored.

 

As usual, I find that it's a real pain in the hind end to type /playernote "Character Name" for every last one of them to see if I've left a note for myself on their behavior.

 

It'd be REALLY helpful if there was a button next to their name I could click to bring up their playernote. (It'd be equally helpful to see star ratings next to their name, or even in chat). This would probably be even more useful in the context of friends as well to bring up notes like, 'Only plays before 10PM EST' and the like.

 

I made a mockup to demonstrate what I mean:

 

 

I doubt the talented HC devs will want to use my artwork if they decide to spend effort and time on this, but in the case they do:

 

https://files.catbox.moe/womegw.xcf

 

There's a GIMP file containing said artwork.

 

Difficulty: Easy -> Medium. UI work is harder than it looks, but we have all the UI elements for this already, with the exception of the button itself. I imagine that the majority of the difficulty here would be adding code to activate the playernote UI.

 

 

Also, 'Righteous' is kinda a cool font to use for chat and UI, etc... It's really growing on me after using Lexend for quite a while.

[Rudra]

I like this idea. Simplifying access to player notes should be very helpful for a lot of people. Not sure about incorporating ratings directly into the window with the player notes shortcut though, especially since the proposed shortcut will make ratings just as fast to check. (I'm not opposed to the ratings being there per se, I'm just not a fan of cluttered windows. Especially with my tendency to misclick from time to time.)

[Super Atom]

If you have so many people on ignore you need an organizer, perhaps its time to self reflect.🤷‍♀️

 

[mechahamham]

9 minutes ago, Super Atom said:

If you have so many people on ignore you need an organizer, perhaps its time to self reflect.🤷‍♀️

 

Most of the people who end up on my ignore list are spammers, abusive in some way, or bigoted. I try to give each of them a note so I know not to take them off.

 

However, I moderated a public channel on the live servers for many years. In that time, I began to view the ignore list for what it was: A luxury to make the game environment nicer for one's self. I felt like I couldn't ignore problematic individuals because I couldn't moderate effectively.

 

Now, I don't deny myself that luxury. If someone's annoying me and I don't want to turn off chat entirely, I'll ignore them. Again, I try to leave myself notes, but don't always manage. I've asked before for a temporary or 1 day ignore feature, but I suspect that's a LOT more coding effort than this.

[Super Atom]

1 hour ago, mechahamham said:

 

Most of the people who end up on my ignore list are spammers, abusive in some way, or bigoted. I try to give each of them a note so I know not to take them off.

 

However, I moderated a public channel on the live servers for many years. In that time, I began to view the ignore list for what it was: A luxury to make the game environment nicer for one's self. I felt like I couldn't ignore problematic individuals because I couldn't moderate effectively.

 

Now, I don't deny myself that luxury. If someone's annoying me and I don't want to turn off chat entirely, I'll ignore them. Again, I try to leave myself notes, but don't always manage. I've asked before for a temporary or 1 day ignore feature, but I suspect that's a LOT more coding effort than this.

 

While it's always a persons right to interact with who they desire, I find this exclusionary mindset to be... at odds with MMO environments and unhealthy for small MMO communities.

 

Different ways of viewing things i suppose. No real reason for us to go back and forth when we fundamentally disagree on the use of the ignore system. Don't need to eat up any more space in the topic 👍

Edited Monday at 09:13 AM by Super Atom

[Shin Magmus]

   I 1-star everyone who says any derivative of "sitter looking for farm" in LFG and make my note about that.  I support your endeavors and your desire for UI improvements.

[tidge]

I have maybe as many as two players on my ignore list, but they really earned it because of global/LFG bastardry. I'm on at least one other player's ignore list 🙄 for which I accept my part in being in a moment during which I was doing my thing (with others, on a team) and that player came out of the blue to be very public about how we were doing it wrong. I should have let it go, but yeesh.... my bad.

 

My own measure of 'tolerance' shouldn't apply to everyone, so I don't think having/managing an ignore list is a bad thing. There are a handful of players that endlessly jibber-jabber about the most trivial in-game things... including one multi-account person who conducts public conversations between the accounts who probably should be on my ignore list but I can't bring myself to look away.