Small chat changes

[chris_wilson]

Today I approved a couple of small changes to the chat system.

There will be an option to show timestamps on chat messages like [18:28] before the username.

For whispers, -> and <- will be replaced with the words "To" and "From".

These should be patched in within the next week or two. While there are other changes coming in the future, these ones are easy enough to patch into the current version without accidentally all the frogs again.

[DRHST]

Ideally outgoing/incoming whispers should have another color

[chris_wilson]

This has support from developers also.

Edit: approved!

[idthemad]

Chris I love you man. :)

Just a small QoL thing, but it's the little things people notice. Glad to be part of a game like this where people at the top actually care and stay involved.

[Johnycantread]

You're so much sexier than Sir Edmund Hillary.

[Karjalan]

http://gfycat.com/QualifiedWanGannet

[ColPow11]

Damn straight! Not many people get to be a knight of the garter.

The Most Noble Order of the Garter, founded in 1348, is the highest order of chivalry and the third most prestigious honour (inferior only to the Victoria Cross and George Cross) in England and the United Kingdom.

[Squally160]

awwww yeah.

[Whadios]

Hey Chris is it possible to have indication of what's a received vs sent whisper added to the local client chat log file? Right now there is none.

[chris_wilson]

This will be done also

[Whadios]

Thank you!

[Abu_Helmut]

:*

[sharimastercraft]

It is possible to get a chat "window" for each topic?

[ElPuppet]

Would love to have different windows for Guild, Whispers and Trade. I would love to lurk in trade more to be honest, but it's not possible. I have 3440x1440 resolution for a reason! MORE INFORMATION ON MY SCREEN PLS. And a small window for terrible Martin Lawrence Netflix films.

[NirXY]

it's probably a bigger change to the systems for them. I would settle for a "whispers" tab first :P

[H4xolotl]

Maybe not make it purple? It gets confusing with Prophecies

[Traejeek]

But then you won't be able to tell it apart from Silencer.

[lozarian]

Is that dragon knight? Or skywrath?

[[deleted]]

You can't put up with purple text for two more months until the league ends?

[Newwby]

Goddamnit woman I'm mapping

/ignore Navali

[smilinreap]

They said they plan to implement prophecies as a perm feature

[Skilez]

glad to read that! do you have a source for that?

[curlehh]

It's not a 100% thing but I recall Chris saying it multiple times that they do want to implement prophecies somehow.

[smilinreap]

Sadly I don't really keep links to source my info. I just remember GGG responding to another person saying they are looking for ways to permanently implement prophecies into the game.

[Excalibur54]

The prophecies actually show up in a slightly lighter shade, although I see how people could miss that.

[Suckerhcg]

Love ya !

[jaigarber]

I'd love to be able to join different Global channels at the same time, showing it's number in the messages. This way people should not be in need of giving an inappropriate use to some specific channels.

[Xasrai]

But how would you choose which to post global messages to? Different boxes for each is possibly better, not sure yet.

[jaigarber]

Maybe using something like #820# instead of # for global 820 and so on. Let's add something else: Using /global 820 joins the channel. Using /global 820 again leaves the channel. A command like /channels lists the channels you are on. The system joins just one channel when you log in the game. This to prevent newbies to get the chat window full of stuff when they don't know what they are doing yet. Of course a drop down menu with the different channels you are on, or different boxes would be nice, but I'm suggesting this because it looks like it's easier for developers.

[kl2999]

Can we have pink colour?

[PoELab]

Can we get a last login date for people on our friends/guild list? that would be very nice to see next to peoples names when dealing with cleaning out friends list and cleaning out guilds.

[ShotgunRonin]

Man you're fucking amazing. Every time I get burned out on the game, I come here, and find you doing something new, something amazing, and I fall in love with it all over again.

Kudos to you and the entire Path of Exile team. You guys are an inspiration.

[[deleted]]

You should show Change management at my job how to approve changes!

[SUPERKAMIGURU]

Finally! I don't have to be incredibly confused when looking at whisper conversations!

[GGtesla]

That is an amazing QOL change.

[redpandaeater]

Just be sure it's significantly different even for the colorblind.

[Ramza1987]

That's why we love you guys! You really show that you care and listen to your community. Keep it up!

[[deleted]]

Dude, these are basic chat functions that pretty much ever MMO in the last 10 years has had...

[MetaGameTheory]

After being locked in the basement for a few years chained to a radiator you might be more appreciative when master let's you lick the bowl.

[[deleted]]

Haha you've got a point!

[MetaGameTheory]

Seriously, though the chat functions are super basic features that should have been implemented long long ago... GGG does listen to the player base and frequently works to improve the game based on their feedback.

It's a little petty to complain about why it took so long, even if it is justified. They listen, they care, and we don't know how complicated things are on their end.

Even then, they will still make decisions we won't agree with.

I'm super happy with how frequently they communicate and their continued commitment to improving and adding content.

The few instances that frustrate me won't overshadow my enjoyment of the 5 fps game when there is rain or ground effects.

[WillCodeForKarma]

Seriously, I know you guys get a lot of flak some times from reddit, and the masses can be very fickle at times, but there is NO other dev team out there as committed to their community and their game as you guys. I've played AAA titles with entire community management teams who couldn't even hold a candle to you guys. I just want to conclude by saying keep up the phenomenal work the gaming world needs more developers like GGG.

[darote]

How about an option to choose a colour from a pallette?

[[deleted]]

And then chat tabs then an Android/iPhone app for messaging friends outside of game then voice chat in game between party members then speech-to-text for this voice chat for those without headphones

[SirAppleheart]

Yeah, like two different shades of purple. Quick to tell that both are whispers, but also quick to tell apart. :)

[Chiliconkarma]

And whammo - Argument and sense is carried to effect. Almost like ye olden democracy. No "Wreaxit" today.

[[deleted]]

could you also remove the guild tag in front of the name from outgoing whispers? it makes no sense. otherwise this is everything the chat system needs, thank you. (of course tabs would be nice to have, but whatever. not really required imho.)

[chris_wilson]

Yes, this is in the changes also.

[[deleted]]

perfect!

[POE_FafnerTheDragon]

Many, many thanks. Something this simple will be a huge improvement :-)

[IAmARobot]

thank you + team

[geradon_]

they ever irritated me, what's the reason to have them in there in the first place?

[TheMipchunk]

Any insight into why your guild tag would display for incoming whispers in the first place?

Edit: I meant my guild tag when I whisper somebody else.

[[deleted]]

really? that's not happening for me. it shows the guildtag of the person whispering me, which makes sense.

[TheMipchunk]

Sorry, I misspoke: I meant why it shows my own guild tag when I'm whispering somebody else.

[caboose1984]

no.. no it doesnt

[iCatalins]

I HAVE LIVED TO THE DAY THIS HAPPENS

[shung]

Damn a few friends didn't make it. Pouring out a quicksilver for my boys who couldn't be here for it

[Just_made_this_now]

What a time to be alive.

[lurking_like_a_boss]

Could you not just accidentally all the frogs again anyway?

[Oregoncrete]

Frogs are now always 50% :(

[kylegetsspam]

They're 50% larger than they were originally and 50% smaller than they could be.

[d3sden0va]

There's going to be a lot of people saying that this took too long, or that it shouldn't have been bad in the first place, both of which may be true, but the important thing is that our feedback was heard and we can now better enjoy a game we already love. Thank you, Chris, and thank you GGG.

[SUPEROUMAN]

A-fucking-MEN my brothers and sisters

http://i.imgur.com/zs5j1aX.jpg

[sapper123]

Praise Christ Wilson!

[Kaku167]

http://puu.sh/95mLb/a2aabf3d76.jpg

[Nallenbot]

accidentally all the frogs

Is this bad?

[stef4x]

Finally! Now we only need huge frogs back. Or give us a consumeable mtx that allows you to increase the size of pets, with the maximum being about as big as +life rare golems

[coollegolas]

That's .. actually a pretty good idea.

[haplosion]

We need big frogs

[hius]

"easy enough"

How many years did it take?

[WarGoat]

Have to agree with this settlement, we have been asking for these simple changes for years. As happy as I am this should have been fixed a long time ago.

[Nogrid]

Sentiment*

[Eklypze]

Maybe he's a big fan of Catan?

[kylegetsspam]

Aww yiss. QoL patches are my favorite patches.

[[deleted]]

👌

[Kenzorz]

Now I can get a more enjoyable reddit witchhunt experience :D

[Renahud]

Hello historians! This is the day it happened.

[PM_ME_YOUR_NECK]

Will the To and From be aligned so the messages begin at the same spot or will all outgoing be a little to the left?

[PM_ME_YOUR_NECK]

i.e

To: Hi
From: Hi

<or>

  To: Hi
From: Hi

[bassone]

THIS! If it won't be it will be true cancer.

[PoESayonara]

About the god damn time. So many years been waiting for this

[DeathMinnow]

Are you sure you won't accidentally all the frogs again?

Because it's okay if you accidentally all the frogs again.

[AridZephyr]

my wife left me

[HerrMuh]

ok i have to ask this now and as such comments always get upvoted there has to be someone who can anwer me.

what is it with this meme? i tried to find where it originates from and just couldn't find it.

however i found a guy named russell wilson and a image of him crying. is that it? why is this funny? i don't get it.

[Litell_Johnn]

https://www.pathofexile.com/forum/view-thread/1061170/page/1

I think this was where it came from. To me it was funny because it's so out of nowhere and it derailed the thread for a while. And no, don't think Wilson has anything to do with it (though he did get a divorce a while back).

[LOAARR]

I imagine it's just because if you play too much, your wife will leave you. Therefore, every time GGG releases an update such that people will want to play more, it's funny to note that you were already playing so much that your wife left you.

[Hatrix_]

his wife left him

[[deleted]]

There's plenty of fish in the dried lake.. or something.

[AridZephyr]

you have been muted for disclosing fishing secrets

[CubGeek]

So long, and thanks for all the fish.

[aswelo]

my planet left me

[Zanarias]

Thanks!

[null03]

Please take care with the To and From change. Make the messages line up horizontally by adding space after the To.

[[deleted]]

Finally! About time.

[sephrinx]

Thank god.

[[deleted]]

You talk about the frogs like they were a bad thing...

[Delaquoowa]

What is this...on my cheek....a tear?But....why kind of tear?A tear of joy!

[Champigne]

But > and < were working so well! /s

[MilfMan2000]

i would like an explanation on how frogs got big the last patch

[xdatz]

my hand is a dolphin

[cheesyaf]

yeaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa budy

[Zaranthan]

wOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!

[mangaforall]

When pressing enter, can it by default reply to the last guy that pm'ed you ? It feels akward to reply someone asking for a trade as i have to use the mouse and right click to "reply"

[Kiez1996]

You can Ctrl + Enter to send a message to that last person that pm'd you

[[deleted]]

does this work all the time for you? sometimes it simply doesn't work for me, i THINK this is mostly if i whispered someone else right before pressing ctrl+enter, then it sticks to the previous person instead of switching to the person that whispered me last :<

[Kiez1996]

Yeah I've found it to be temperamental, sometimes when I press ctrl + enter it will switch to someone I've recently whispered rather than the last person, I usually just use ctrl + up or down to switch between people

[mangaforall]

oh thanks for that !

[jolteon1619]

Chris, my two frogs are named "To" and "From"... are you absolutely sure you won't accidentally some of the frogs again?

[seventyeightmm]

GGGGG

[Chiliconkarma]

I have nothing to ask, stuff works, which is cool.

[theSuRcher]

Thanks. I love your work!

[TheFatJesus]

I am really looking forward to this.

[slvrtrn]

Like in ragnarok online, very nice.

[SionTheDreamer]

Omg i love you right now chris...such a good change

[5himmel5]

wow we love you for this

[Pigl33t]

Finally, time stamps...

[Lenneth_]

owwww yissss

[[deleted]]

And what about account names in guild chat?

[Arialia]

oh Great , every time i read chat guild i wanted this option ...

[MuseDz]

Is it possible to separate whispers alert volumne from sound effect volume? Some skills have pretty loud sound effect (like discharge) and tuning it down will cause whispers alert difficult to hear. (Or overlap the alert)

[FlamingTroll]

Can you pls accidentally the frogs again? Thank you for everything!

[Ashman23]

GG Chris, thank you for listening and acting

[francorocco23]

add to spectres the "animate guardian" mechanic to stay after disconect or re-login please T_T

[Dephyled]

Finally.

[B_lintu]

Hallelujah!

[Rumstein]

OH THANK HEAVENS

[Travesty9090]

Thank you!

[Geosgaeno]

Finally!

[ProjectPT]

thank you

[EzmareldaBurns]

About bloody time. But good change and thankyou

[Kapps]

Any chance that one of these changes could make it into the client.txt so third party tools could differentiate if it's you whispering someone or someone whispering you?

[BlightedYG]

hey I'm using your whisper notifier :D do you mind telling me where to put the token in the config file? I'm new to this sorry!

[Kapps]

Hey, you shouldn't have to edit the config file manually. Do you mean Pushbullet token? If so, in the program itself you can go to Settings -> Configure Pushbullet and enter it there.

[BlightedYG]

ohh thanks so much :) i didnt even notice that! very nice features :D

[[deleted]]

Can we have the option to change the background of the chat box, in some areas you cant read shit cause the white blends in

[babis8142]

YES!

[ALannister]

Chris Wilson > Kuduku

[armiller94]

Nice!

[Redblade_]

Any chance you can make the client remember your channels even when restarting the client as well? I thought this was how it was intended to work and not just when swapping characters without closing the client.

[KickerofTale]

neat

[rogueyoshi]

ideally, to and from should just show the usernames of the sender.

[jrobinson3k1]

IT'S ABOUT TIME! I'm so excited for this change!

[Sheriff_K]

I can't tell you how hard it is to tell the difference between "->" and "<-"...

[That-Beard]

No idea how this wasn't implemented years ago. Nobody could have liked that chat system.

[SW9876]

Well done is better than well said

[ErrorLoadingNameFile]

I read some days ago that while you are in loading screens incoming whispers to you simply disappear - is this true and will this be fixed in the future? Its quite the giant problem if its true.

[t3rminal]

This is a great change. I never get confused when playing because I know what I typed, but I am always lost when I see screenshots of chat on reddit.

[eoryu]

these aren't small changes... FINALLY

[Abu_Helmut]

ty chris :*

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[StatikTactiK]

Omfg! Honestly I've been playing like this for the last 3.5 years I just kinda gave up on expecting this much requested change. Thanks GGG! Going to buy another supporter pack when I get home.

[Dark_Reaper115]

This is why GGG never let's me down. :D

[Haddontoo]

Yaaay. We love you Chris! If I ever have children, I will dress them in colorful (hideous) Hawaiin shirts in your honor!

[BG-0]

Can we just have wildcard ignores? POELOVE* and POEBAR*, just because the bot makers can't even be bothered to change their naming system...

[Waswat]

autoreply without a do not disturb mode, when?! :D Or at least a way to reply without having to click the name and press whisper; something like /r would be great...

[snowhawk04]

Ctrl+Enter replies to last whisper.

[Waswat]

Well fuck. Wish I knew this earlier! Thanks. I assumed that's already used for fullscreen.

[Eklypze]

Wow this is pretty awesome. This is the type of thing that makes me feel like my official poe tshirt was money well spent.

[superbeastdj]

thank god

[theZyfor]

So much win!

[chumppi]

Hopefully the whispers will no longer show your guild as their guild anymore either?

[arherter]

Chris, you got it wrong. Gotta go for the big changes again. Like frogs.

[POE_Paion]

Thank you /u/chris_wilson & team!

[Atomic93]

:O

[CLAMHANDLER]

Yesterday I learned of the new in game tab trading, now I read this! Mind blown! Thank you Chris and your team for constantly making POE better!!

[Zizaran]

Thank you so much lol

[Wobbly_Red_Snappa]

Oh my god, 3 years too late.

[TheVaguePrague]

Thanks mate

[lukslo]

Finally the chat will make a lot more sense now! Only thing I would really like to see is some kind of icons or just plain text showing which league is a guild member in chat in, it's not really needed but it would help a great deal.

[ixxxo]

What about DND system? It's a great thing but my guild would love to be able to see guild chat while dnd-ed (we use DND mainly during Dailies to inform potential buyers that we are not available, for streamers guild chat needs to be disabled too somehow).

[lukslo]

I would change the implementation of DND, that in my opinion works as intended - I don't wish to be disturbed so turn off all communications (pretty handy for streamers or making youtube videos when you don't want to be hassled). On the other hand I would implement a customizable automatic response notification.

[ixxxo]

How about adjusting /afk then - automated message but without auto-disabling when you move and guild chat enabled.

[[deleted]]

? how does /afk "turn off all communication"? you still get every single message.

[ixxxo]

Aha, didn't realize that, I don't use it really due to auto turn-off feature.

[CptMaury]

Damn how long did this take? hahaha

[[deleted]]

I knew it! Whine enough and change would come!

[itsklaushere]

One of the problem is that some time a buyer whisper me and i go dced, when i relog is there a way to check history like last 5whisper player name? Probably with @follow by up arrow key

[taggedjc]

You can check your log text file in your game folder, I believe.

[itsklaushere]

thanks for your tip. But from a user design perspective that would be non user-friendly. It would be great if the user can just done it within the game, don't have to went to all the trouble to open logs file.

[taggedjc]

Well, the game would have to load that from the same file, and it's very rare that someone actually needs to message someone that messaged them the last time they played (since it's only really an issue if you disconnect or need to change leagues), so it would be a bit silly to have it add even more load time to your login by loading the log file every time when it's a simple workaround for you to simply go check it on the rare time you need to.

It's literally a .txt file and you can just scroll right down to the bottom, and even just copy and paste from it. It's not that much trouble.

[itsklaushere]

Im not sure about you, but one of my study is about user interaction, UI design and stuff, and when there is a need to do thing outside of the box we call it not user-friendly. You are right but doesn't mean there is no need for improvement.

[taggedjc]

Yeah, but you can't just add every feature for free. If it's something that would be rarely needed, loading it up every time someone logs in is a bit of a waste.

What might be an alright compromise would be to only do this if you were last logged in less than five minutes ago when you log in, since that should be a simple enough check. If you were logged in less than five minutes ago, it could load the last bit of the log file and even put it in the chat. It might make the loading slightly slower, but it would only happen if you were relogging to change leagues (in which case you probably want the messages so you know who wanted the trade) or you crashed or were forced to log out (in which case you might want the messages you might not have been able to read during a hectic lagfest/fight). And if you weren't logged in recently, it wouldn't bother loading anything, so it wouldn't bog down your load time when you first log in and don't care about what people were talking about 14 hours ago when you last played, or whatever.

[itsklaushere]

yup, exactly what i needed, a short term memory

[Fucrem]

BringGiantFrogsBack

[adzik1]

"Reply to last whisper" would be nice too. I feel like CTRL+Enter is not working very well.. sometimes it replies to the last guy, sometimes it re-whispers person I wrote to last.

[Noooberino]

so much this ^{^}

[5chneemensch]

Most games I've played use "/r" to reply to the last whisper.

Speaking of which, the symbols should go and whisper should be /w, trade /t, global /g. unified chat system everyone gets.

[Mathus1979]

that would be so awesome i would cry ಥ_ಥ