Interdiction Banner Message

[quelcertoleo]

o? cmdrs
The new comms mechanism has some problems currently and direct messages are not highlighted somehow.
This is a bit of a problem when interdicting a cmdr asking for donations. I used to drop a message in SC before interdicting and repeating the same message soon after the inderdiction but, at the moment, they appear to go completely unnoticed.
Usually I would send two times the following message:

"greetings CMDR. This is a charity operation and I need donations...
Please stop engines and jettison 2t of cargo.
Running, low wake or high wake will result in a repair bill or worse.
Thank you for your cooperation and understanding"

Could we have a simple way to display these messages, perhaps directly on the HUD like any of the COVAS messages?

 

[Bard Voronwe]

I think that most importantly we need better notifications for every kind of communications. It was a great idea to divide the different channels as they are, but there's a lot of issues in that.

For example: it doesn't make sense that the NPC fighter communicates with you by the personal channel, it happens to flood the other CMDRs communications.

So yes, we need banners, icons, every kind of notifications that could be useful to be aware of incoming communications, of course manageable by the CMDRs themselves.

 

[Riverside]

Seems fair enough, during the interdiction event the interdicted player is focused on the reticle and important information from the interdicting player displayed close to that may stand a better chance of being taken in than a message displayed only in the top left of the screen.

 

[Jaggedmallard]

A general "I am a pirate, drop cargo and you will live" automessage button for use against NPCs and Players would be extremely useful.

 

[Morgan James]

I support this. Communication is the single most important tool in player-piracy encounters, it needs to be easier for the pirate to use and easier for the client to notice.