JKJudgeX Posted August 14, 2017 Posted August 14, 2017 I play captain a lot. A great deal of that time I spend as one of only a few heads. I have to listen on most channels to provide help where necessary due to missing heads and know where to go to keep things flowing. Many, many people are messaging me and I'm doing HoP work while directing security/etc. A great feature would be better arrivals notifications for heads. Larger font, different colored font, etc, and even better, a special sound for each head, like the captain whistle, when they arrive. All arrival notifications could be helped by being different, even for non-heads, so long as heads are easily distinguished when they arrive. This would be a great signal to start gracefully handing off responsibilities. Many times, a head arrives and kind of slinks into their department without saying anything, and I'm out here trying to manage engineering without knowing the CE arrived because his arrival announcement got buried in a torrent of requests/announcements/etc. I find myself checking the crew manifest over and over through the round hoping someone came aboard. So, yeah, just a little something here would be nice.
Superiorform Posted August 14, 2017 Posted August 14, 2017 I am in favour of this, purely for the fact I was recently mortified when I ordered an engineer to do something over the engineering channel, and the CE had a go at me for micromanaging. He had a point too. It would be nice for everyone to know when a head comes aboard.
JKJudgeX Posted September 4, 2017 Author Posted September 4, 2017 I'd like to bump this idea real quick because I still think it would be great and it hasn't seen much feedback. I hope that's alright.
whiterabit Posted September 4, 2017 Posted September 4, 2017 I'd like to see this, both for the convenience of it and in order to reinforce the status held by command personnel. The significance of the captain's presence is well translated by the unique way the crew is notified of it. I don't think all of the command ranks necessarily need their own sounds, but simply making the text larger would signify their importance and eliminate the issues raised here.
Conspiir Posted September 5, 2017 Posted September 5, 2017 I'd like to see this, both for the convenience of it and in order to reinforce the status held by command personnel. The significance of the captain's presence is well translated by the unique way the crew is notified of it. I don't think all of the command ranks necessarily need their own sounds, but simply making the text larger would signify their importance and eliminate the issues raised here. I absolutely agree with 100% of this post and this was probably exactly what I was going to write. Thanks for reading my mind for me.
Scheveningen Posted September 5, 2017 Posted September 5, 2017 It should probably print them out in their respective comms channels (including command), rather than like how it announces who the captain is.
ben10083 Posted September 5, 2017 Posted September 5, 2017 +1 for this, maybe do it for the AI as well, as I had many times when people didn't notice the AI leaving and another arriving.
Arrow768 Posted September 7, 2017 Posted September 7, 2017 +1 for this, maybe do it for the AI as well, as I had many times when people didn't notice the AI leaving and another arriving. The AI moving to storage and a new one being downloaded into the core already has its own announcement afaik.
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