We were discussing in game earlier that the chat system needs a bit of love for clarity. I came up with some initial ideas/things I would personally love to see in the future. Here is my initial suggestion, as you can see I have changed the line spacing from the default 12px flat spacing to 15px between paragraph lines, and 20px between individual chatters. In addition I propose randomized (or selectable) colors for the individual names. Another thing that I have enjoyed or appreciated in other chat utilities was the use of the @ previous to your name, highlighting text, and or possibly giving an alternate notification sound, to grab your attention if chat happens to be moving fast. Other proposals that I would make as some far off distant project (maybe after the friends system is fully implemented) would be specific group/room chats, private messages or whispers, and the ability to switch between these types of chats/the chats displayed. (whether it be a tabbed chat system as many other games have, or the ability to check which chats you want visible in each tabbed group, something to that effect.) If anyone else has recommendations or ideas please post them below! Sorry for the shoddy graphic, but my computer decided to commit ritual suicide and now I'm forced to try and use a mac for graphics work (who even does that?).
I'd like to see the member list in chat sortable. Alphabetical, by rating, and maybe by time spent in chat. I'd also like to see a list of names of people currently in games.
