Sick of distracting DM messages

[JCav]

For the umpteenth time: I don't want to read across the middle of my screen when someone succeeds or fails at Stormreaver or any other high-end quest. I'm tired of it distracting from MY enjoyment of the game and getting in the way of MY ability to deal with encounters I'm in the middle of while your text blocks most of my screen.

Put it in my general chat...and LEAVE IT THERE. I don't care what is going on with someone else's $15 a month. I care only about what is going on in MY party in MY instance.

[Memnir]

I have to second this...
It was mildly amusing for the first week or so. Now it's just verging on obnoxious.

Put these Raid messages on their own channel, please.

[QuantumFX]

Or could you possibly limit it to players that aren't in quest areas?

[Spectralist]

Aye. I'm not a fan of those messages to begin with, but if it has to be there please put the text only in the chat box. Don't throw it in the middle of my screen.

[GuitarHero]

at least they tell us when someone fails, so we can mock them amongst our parties...

but anyways, it loses a lot of its impact when someone is saving "All of Xen'drik" every 15 minutes or so.

[Rokurgepta]

at least they tell us when someone fails, so we can mock them amongst our parties...

but anyways, it loses a lot of its impact when someone is saving "All of Xen'drik" every 15 minutes or so.

I never realized were constantly in such peril either.

[GuitarHero]

I never realized were constantly in such peril either.

If Xen'drik gets much more dangerous, i think we are all gonna have to jump on the next boat to Sharn, since its taking our most powerful people to save the entire continent every 15 minutes!!!

[Shecky]

I have to second this...
It was mildly amusing for the first week or so. Now it's just verging on obnoxious.

Put these Raid messages on their own channel, please.

Meh, I'd put that more as "...just verging on invisible." I hardly notice them any more. And that's from running at prime time on Argonnessen, the most populated server, so it's a fairly safe bet that there are more of those messages popping up for us.

Oh, and JCav? If, as Mad puts it, two lines of narrow white text that pop up on your screen for a couple of seconds are enough to distract you that much, then... well, I think you might want to take a more introspective approach to problem identification there, and I'll leave it at that. It's got about as much negative impact on your game as a mosquito hitting my windshield at 60 mph.

[MathGeek]

Oh, and JCav? If, as Mad puts it, two lines of narrow white text that pop up on your screen for a couple of seconds are enough to distract you that much, then... well, I think you might want to take a more introspective approach to problem identification there, and I'll leave it at that. It's got about as much negative impact on your game as a mosquito hitting my windshield at 60 mph.

Hey, for those of us on 640x480 monitors, it takes up most of the screen.

[Yvonne_Blacksword]

*snip*
Put it in my general chat...and LEAVE IT THERE. I don't care what is going on with someone else's $15 a month. I care only about what is going on in MY party in MY instance.

<Sigh>

No sense of community! No regard for the achievements of heros!
Does not care if the Stormreaver annihilates us all!


Wait a month...

[In_Like_Flynn]

No sense of community! No regard for the achievements of heros! ...

The message should list all of the heroes involved, not just the party leader. I want a list of the names of the participants, their races, classes and levels, as well as the loot they were awarded. And some stats: average melee damage, number of spells cast, total time in the instance. Yes, give me the works.

[Hafeal]

... they are changing this in Mod 5, right?

[GeneralDiomedes]

The message should list all of the heroes involved, not just the party leader. I want a list of the names of the participants, their races, classes and levels, as well as the loot they were awarded. And some stats: average melee damage, number of spells cast, total time in the instance. Yes, give me the works.

Why not give it its own message type so we can filter it out if we want to as well. Lose the middle of the screen big letters, put it in your chat window.