Guest Posted January 26, 2015 Share Posted January 26, 2015 As the title states, return mods to their bluish grey, devs to their dark green, admins to the reddish orange, for OOC. With the exception of admin devs, who can be any color they want. Including mindfucking yellow. As well as laying down the guideline that Primary/Secondary admins have the reddish orange text color, and that color only. While seeing shades of fuchsia and dark gray and red is fun and all, it's really a strain on the eyes. This change will also allow for easier classification for who is who. Function over form. Please. Link to comment
incognitojesus Posted January 26, 2015 Share Posted January 26, 2015 I agree with this, honestly. It may just be my eye condition, but seeing floods of different colors overwhelms my senses to the point where I just focus on only one of them. I understand the need for individuality, but function over form, as OP stated. Link to comment
Dea Tacita Posted January 26, 2015 Share Posted January 26, 2015 Admins have always been able to pick their own colors. I've litterally never seen anyone complain about this except when someone decides to be an asshole and pick eyehurt yellow. Which doesn't happen here And No. No. No. Please don't return mods, due to my colorblindness, I can't tell them apart from Players in that color Link to comment
Doomberg Posted January 26, 2015 Share Posted January 26, 2015 Things are perfectly fine as they are. Unless you're epileptic and five different admins are typing at the same time at the speed of one message per second, you shouldn't really be affected by this in any way. Link to comment
TishinaStalker Posted January 26, 2015 Share Posted January 26, 2015 I've litterally never seen anyone complain about this except when someone decides to be an asshole and pick eyehurt yellow. Which doesn't happen here And admins that do that get scolded in asay by their peers and Scopes. Link to comment
LordFowl Posted January 27, 2015 Share Posted January 27, 2015 Things are perfectly fine as they are. Unless you're epileptic and five different admins are typing at the same time at the speed of one message per second, you shouldn't really be affected by this in any way. But what if someone is epileptic? What then, Doomberg? Link to comment
Witt Posted January 27, 2015 Share Posted January 27, 2015 The Issue I and probably a lot of others have is certain admins (tish and Skull) have chosen OOC colors that blend in with In game chat and it is quite difficult to keep up on it sometimes. If you lot chose colors that weren't confusable with an IC radio frequency I'm sure we would be happy. (well happier) Link to comment
Guest Posted January 27, 2015 Share Posted January 27, 2015 Things are perfectly fine as they are. Unless you're epileptic and five different admins are typing at the same time at the speed of one message per second, you shouldn't really be affected by this in any way. I'm attempting to adjust to contact lenses and the new colors give me profound migraines. 20-15 vision is not pleasant. Link to comment
Frances Posted January 27, 2015 Share Posted January 27, 2015 I'm attempting to adjust to contact lenses and the new colors give me profound migraines. 20-15 vision is not pleasant. Which new colours? I haven't been on the server for a while but from what I recall the dev and mod colors were simply switched. Link to comment
Guest Posted January 27, 2015 Share Posted January 27, 2015 The new SecondaryAdmin colors. Although, this is more personal choice as they have the verb to change their OOC text color. Link to comment
incognitojesus Posted January 27, 2015 Share Posted January 27, 2015 And, I'll be honest, I have missed attack logs before because somebody (I don't actually remember who) has the same OOC color as them. I'm not saying have a set color for everyone, that's just micromanagement for the lulz. I'm saying that we should put some light restriction on what colors can be chosen. Link to comment
Dea Tacita Posted January 27, 2015 Share Posted January 27, 2015 Skull is the one with the LOOC colored OOC text I think. I'm Darkish Grey (Which works fine) Tish is Lightish Green (not eye-hurt, and different from radio text) Vik is mid-tone orange. No clue for anyone else Here's a question. Instead of making this thread, did you ever consider just...asking any staff who's colors are uncomfortable/annoying to just I dunno...change it? We're not unreasonable, and I don't think anyone cares for their color THAT much. Link to comment
Guest Posted January 27, 2015 Share Posted January 27, 2015 It's not that I don't think any of you are unreasonable. It's the fact that there's very little clarity that is to be analyzed from it. How is a new player going to respond with their OOC being flooded by a bunch of different colors with no consistency involved? What are they going to think about you all as a team, or even individually? Sure, you might not care about what they think, but that's going to be one of the defining factors for them choosing to stay on the server. As I said, there needs to be a standard that has to be set. Function over form. Link to comment
Doomberg Posted January 27, 2015 Share Posted January 27, 2015 No one is going to leave the server because we don't wear uniforms. Link to comment
Dea Tacita Posted January 27, 2015 Share Posted January 27, 2015 You realize that EVERY SS-13 server allows this right? Its a feature on TG,Bay-12 and evenGoon.... This IS their original state. With the except of the mod/dev colors which were switched to allow mods to be more visible Link to comment
Guest Posted January 27, 2015 Share Posted January 27, 2015 The 'original state' I was referring to was the state of the staff's OOC color back before the midwinter months with all of the overhaul changes. Skull and Scopes were green, Viking was orange before, Lessick, Frances, tuiee (who I saw only once) had a reddish orange. The mods back then were a light grey. Standard coders/developers/mappers/spriters were a dark green. Either way, I'm still advocating a monochromatic scheme of OOC text color. It doesn't make any sense why the clusterfuck of random, inconsistent colors flooding in OOC is even allowed. I'm not going to pretend to understand what colors people can see or can't see, but making OOC look unattractive and otherwise not pleasant to look at isn't something we want to keep. Function over form. Free OOC from its rainbow text oppression. 500 shitposts get Link to comment
Dea Tacita Posted January 27, 2015 Share Posted January 27, 2015 Mods have never been light gray, the admins were only red because they hadn't changed their colors yet. And honestly you're litterally the only person in the many years I've been staff complai n about this Link to comment
Guest Posted January 27, 2015 Share Posted January 27, 2015 Does it make this any less of a problem? Link to comment
Skull132 Posted January 27, 2015 Share Posted January 27, 2015 Delta. Allow me to clear a misconception you have going on here. Admins have always been able to pick their OOC colour. Just, the way it worked out was this: I used Green to match my team, the Developers. The exact same reason I use blue as it stands. I am the leader of my team, ergo, I wear their colour. Scopes used Green because, dunno. Every other admin used some shade of red or amber/orange. Why? Don't ask me, but the colours they chose themselves, they have never been preset for them. Now, with that out of the way, lemme point something out. The, currently, Developer blue is not an effective means of distinguishing Moderators from normal OOC, because it is barely distinguishable. This is why Developers are now dark blue, as they have less urgency to them, and Moderators stand out with dark-khaki green. Moderators should stand out more than Developers, and this is what the current preset colour scheme has going for it. Beyond that, the argument would be to standardize the Admin colours, because I do not want to flip the Mod/Dev colours back, for reason stated above. As for admins using colours like this and this, beyond the measure of a good joke, file and admin complaint and it will be dealt with. Link to comment
Guest Posted January 27, 2015 Share Posted January 27, 2015 Alright, I understand the decision behind making moderators more distinguishable. And I have been aware that the text color can be changed by a secondarymin alone, I toyed with it on the test server. I still want admins to be standardized in terms of OOC text, as you said. Link to comment
Skull132 Posted January 27, 2015 Share Posted January 27, 2015 What about cases like myself and Scopes, where both teams are represented? I'm curious. Link to comment
Guest Posted January 27, 2015 Share Posted January 27, 2015 I liked the green color you both used way back when. Link to comment
LordFowl Posted January 27, 2015 Share Posted January 27, 2015 When I first got here, I had no idea who anyone was. Most servers that have coloured staff tend to have standardized colour coding, allowing for easy identification. To be quite honest, I still have no idea who anyone is. I just learned to hide when fancy colours come around. Link to comment
Frances Posted January 27, 2015 Share Posted January 27, 2015 I still want admins to be standardized in terms of OOC text, as you said. I actually prefer the ability for admins to use different colors, as it makes it easier to recognize which is speaking. We obviously can't start doing this for everyone, but since the server doesn't have that many admins and we're still a small community by chatroom standards, I see little issue with it. Link to comment
Conspire2Ignite Posted January 28, 2015 Share Posted January 28, 2015 To be quite honest, I still have no idea who anyone is. I just learned to hide when fancy colours come around. Don't hide; ask! If you don't understand someone's role, a very colorful name would be happy to let you know. Link to comment
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