Approved Make /report red

[mittens]

With some notifications featuring new colored text now I noticed that one of the more important features on Skial servers is often overlooked by players on servers. A lot of reports seem to go unnoticed because the text is white like the rest of the chat. It can easily blend in with normal chat text and get lost with people spamming "MEDIC!" & etc.

Red text will alert players on the server to the possible troublemakers and help them pass reports that should be passed.

Here you can see all the reports that people attempt that don't actually make it to the forums:
http://stats.skial.com/stats/hlstats.php?mode=chat&game=tf&server_id=0&filter=report

I check this sometimes and investigate failed reports if they are only a few minutes old, I have banned a few hackers this way. The report never made it to the forums however and they would have just continued hacking. Also a lot of people just assume that all they need to do is /report and it will go through, they don't realize people need to !votereport for it to pass. Even with hacking reports that pass if you look in the chat log they are often the 2nd or 3rd time the same report was made because nobody noticed or did !votereport the first time.

 

[KinCryos]

What text is white? I only see green and purple.

well if you're on Idle, this is half the stuff you see in chat:

[TF2Items] PLAYER: [SÐ] 亗 JùñGLé was given weapon 3730!
[TF2Items] PLAYER: [SÐ] 亗 JùñGLé was given weapon 3730!
[TF2Items] PLAYER: [SÐ] 亗 JùñGLé was given weapon 3730!
[TF2Items] PLAYER: [SÐ] 亗 JùñGLé was given weapon 3730!

 

[Truth Seeker]

Jungle's always on idle. I don't know what the fuck else he does with his squalid life; he's there 24/7.

 

[KinCryos]

he makes RTD dispensers in spawn by the windows, probably for this exploit:

note how I'm being healed while in a position for spawncamping


back to the topic at hand: maybe the report message should be in csay, so it doesn't scroll out of chat

 

[mittens]

back to the topic at hand: maybe the report message should be in csay, so it doesn't scroll out of chat

Yeah that could work too. I think red is sure to get people's attention though and because it's in chat they will know to !votereport in chat.

 

[sov]

I think green to lime green is best, all MGE pro players use green recticles because it comes out on maps and it is easy to see. but anyways +1

 

[Astir]

Nice idea, the red will draw attention from the other green texts that already appear. And it's that occasional report that has to draw the attention. About the colour-blind, I don't think there will ever be a server full of colour-blind people so I don't think that's a big issue.

 

[SarcasticWisdom]

 

[Blade D_Hero]

+juan

 

[Ruelel]

I think green to lime green is best, all MGE pro players use green recticles because it comes out on maps and it is easy to see. but anyways +1

everyone has different tastes in crosshairs and colours

 

[[SÐ] 亗 JùñGLé]

Red or something that makes!votereport stand out would be awesome.

 

[Twilight]

+1

 

[Bottiger]

I already implemented this a couple weeks ago.

 

[Maddo]

needs the 'approved' tag adding guys.