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legacy-CatPhoenix
05-17-2004, 01:48 PM
Come on, you know someone was going to make an anti post about it sometime. X-)

And now......
Reasons for not having custom color text:

1) It messed up what the screen name looks like on the scoreboard (at least it did for me a few times)
2) Some one could have an all black color name, making it impossible to see when they type something
3) It looks really annoying (yes, I know that's opinion and not fact, but when was the last time you didn't see opinion in the news X-)
and probably the most important reason
4) So people don't take up in the public chat channel the whole time, telling you how to add color to your name when you're trying to blow someone's head off :haha: </humor> (Though, this did happen on Cain's last night and I thought it was a little annoying; though, better then having to hear about a 16 year old's love life or someone who only public chats to belch of the mic)

It seems I've gone off topic now X-) let me just add a few more reason then :

5) Trying to add that person to a buddy list would probably be sigificantly harder
6) If someone finds a way to add this to their regular text as well, it would probably be extremely annoying spam and impossible to read at times

Doh, ran out of reasons X_X
Have a smurfy day X-)
</needless ranting>
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legacy-E-Trip
05-17-2004, 01:54 PM
Today I went on to an onslaught server and saw someone with an animated nick.

Xabora
05-17-2004, 01:54 PM
:cry:

Dangit...

therogue
05-17-2004, 01:55 PM
2) who cares, if they have an all black name, are they worth listening too? :)

3) I don't mind coloured names personally, I liked em in CoD

4) heh

5) If it was implemented better then the colour tags wouldn't count towards buddies

6) They already have AFAIK

If coloured text was going to stay (contrary to DrSin's previous remarks), then there needs to be a way to disable viewing it, and it needs to be improved.. however, DrSin already said it won't be, so don't worry

Flak
05-17-2004, 01:58 PM
http://www.ataricommunity.com/forums/showthread.php?s=&threadid=381499&perpage=30&pagenumber=4

Dr.Sin's posts.

legacy-CatPhoenix
05-17-2004, 02:00 PM
Originally posted by E-Trip
Today I went on to an onslaught server and saw someone with an animated nick.
NOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!
<hisses> I'm going to have to scratch out some eyes online tonight to get rid of this rage now.....

Or perhaps I'll do some offline gaming for a bit and just keep on giving myself the redeamer and just kill everyone with that X-)

mmmmm, carnage ^.. ^

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Ohhh, doesn't that kitty look so cute playing with that FLAK gun? X-)

legacy-CatPhoenix
05-17-2004, 02:06 PM
Originally posted by [NBS]Flak
http://www.ataricommunity.com/forums/showthread.php?s=&threadid=381499&perpage=30&pagenumber=4

Dr.Sin's posts.

Thank you [NBS]Flak and theroguepk for the info there. Didn't realize Dr. Sin has alreadly appears to have made a ruling on this : )

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Xabora
05-17-2004, 02:08 PM
Thank goodness they are going to stop this... I've already seen some servers with colored names.

legacy-Folletto
05-17-2004, 02:53 PM
As I said on the other topic, I think it's unuseful having coloured nicks, but it's useful having coloured SAY and TEAMSAY.

But not as "the colour of the nick goes on" instead "the said text can be coloured".

Like:

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That I think it's REALLY useful, when you can't user TeamSpeak or any VoiceChat... ;)

Boksha
05-17-2004, 02:56 PM
Originally posted by Folletto
As I said on the other topic, I think it's unuseful having coloured nicks, but it's useful having coloured SAY and TEAMSAY.

But not as "the colour of the nick goes on" instead "the said text can be coloured".

Like:
That I think it's REALLY useful, when you can't user TeamSpeak or any VoiceChat... ;) Yeah, I figured that out too. Coloured chatmessages are cool.
Coloured nicknames are not. (right now anyway since they screw with the non-coloured text behind it)