To CMDR MalcRiverside. (and many others maybe) I am sorry.

Leut

Leut
On my way back from Merope i stopped by FEHU for some extra cash and a nice warm bubblebath in the resort station.

Then it was time to deliver my cargo so of i went. After a few deliveries i accidentally pressed the one key.
That's when i saw your "o7"

I am sorry. I completely missed that. I think i was inside a bulletin board somewhere.

To the devs, Is it possible to play a sound with direct messeges? Because i do not mind a little chat now and again but i like to know someone is talking to me
 

Riverside

Riverside
Absolutely no problem buddy, I generally salute anyone I see & most don't reply. I just figure they don't know how or don't understand what o7 means :)

It does make a sound when a message comes through, it's pretty quiet though.

See you out there Cmdr ;)
 

fennster

fennster
Leut said:
On my way back from Merope i stopped by FEHU for some extra cash and a nice warm bubblebath in the resort station.

Then it was time to deliver my cargo so of i went. After a few deliveries i accidentally pressed the one key.
That's when i saw your "o7"

I am sorry. I completely missed that. I think i was inside a bulletin board somewhere.

To the devs, Is it possible to play a sound with direct messeges? Because i do not mind a little chat now and again but i like to know someone is talking to me
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If my memory serves me correctly it's does play an alert sound when messaged, been in similar situations at stations and received comms, but it is not a very distinct noise.
 

Leut

Leut
Oh wow that was fast. Hi Riverside here is your o7 :D
Is there any way to make that sound louder?
 

Valethar

Valethar
The UI in general could use some tweaking, graphically and audibly. The message received tone is so subtle that it just gets lost in the other sounds/music. I miss the notifications almost every time.
 

Cmdr Frawd Digger

Cmdr Frawd Digger
Leut said:
On my way back from Merope i stopped by FEHU for some extra cash and a nice warm bubblebath in the resort station.

Then it was time to deliver my cargo so of i went. After a few deliveries i accidentally pressed the one key.
That's when i saw your "o7"

I am sorry. I completely missed that. I think i was inside a bulletin board somewhere.

To the devs, Is it possible to play a sound with direct messeges? Because i do not mind a little chat now and again but i like to know someone is talking to me
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I often miss commanders hailing me...usually I am just too busy to notice, or am jumping from one system to another...I too feel bad and feel a little rude for "ignoring" them

Frawd
 

Augustus

Augustus
Okay Noob Question...

What does o7 mean?

I've seen it in Local, but thought it was Gang Slang or directed at someone other than me... :rolleyes:

Never too late to learn...

:D

-gus
 

sqzbox1

S
Me too - I've missed them AND been accused of being ignorant for not replying! I think the comms needs a complete overhaul - it is confusing and unintuitive in the extreme. I hardly ever use it as I fly alone - don't have any friends to wing up with and I'm ok with that - but the comms UI is a mystery to me. Particularly if I am docked at the time. How on earth do you send a reply when you can't target them? Anyway, this is one area which, in my view, the UI is badly designed.
 
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The Librarian

The Librarian
sqzbox1 said:
Me too - I've missed them AND been accused of being ignorant for not replying! I think the comms needs a complete overhaul - it is confusing and unintuitive in the extreme. I hardly ever use it as I fly alone - don't have any friends to wing up with and I'm ok with that - but the comms UI is a mystery to me. Particularly if I am docked at the time. How on earth do you send a reply when you can't target them? Anyway, this is one area which, in my view, the UI is badly designed.
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AutoHotKey is your friend (https://www.autohotkey.com/download/).

Program your function keys with a set of pre-determined messages, if hailed, simply hit the one most appropriate.

As for winging up, doesn't need to be a RL friend, just send a wing a wing request to a local Commander. You never know, they might just say yes. Probably best not to if they are shooting at you though.

I winged with numerous random encounter Commanders, most of whom are now on my friends list.

Save the text below as {filename}.ahk for a sample script, edit to your preferences:-

SetKeyDelay 30, 30


*F1::
Clipboard = Greetings Cmdr.
send {Enter}
sleep 10
send ^v
sleep 25
send {Enter}
Clipboard =
return




*F2::
Clipboard = Greetings Cmdrs.
send {Enter}
sleep 10
send ^v
sleep 25
send {Enter}
Clipboard =
return




*F3::
Clipboard = o7
send {Enter}
sleep 10
send ^v
sleep 25
send {Enter}
Clipboard =
return


*F4::
Clipboard = Clear the slot, hot landing in progress!
send {Enter}
sleep 10
send ^v
sleep 25
send {Enter}
Clipboard =
return






;*F12::
;reload
 
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Jake Savage

Jake Savage
I too regularly miss cmdr coms, it would be nice to have a louder chime, or a quick notification in the middle of the screen, like we get when we are being scanned, it only needs to appear for 1 second
 

mugendo

mugendo
A commander sent me the 07 message once, I thought they had been Interrupted during typing........now I am wiser.
 

diggeddy

D
My apologies too. I am no doubt guilty of this too.
Question. Does proximity to a black hole effect communications?
 
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ratchet5000

R
Limoncello Lizard said:
Problem is, that you get so used to ignoring messages from NPCs that you also ignore the ones from CMDRs.
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I have this bad habit too holding over from my primarily solo play days.

diggeddy said:
My apologies too. I am no doubt guilty of this too.
Question. Does proximity to a black hole effect communications?
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Don't think the game has relativistic effects coded into it. Otherwise, it couldn't keep everyone synced to the (server) clock that's in all the stations.
 
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dangerousbeans

dangerousbeans
Being an Alliance fellow, I docked at Dublin Citadel a few evenings ago to do some local bounty hunting (got very bored of doing powerplay stuff) - and there was quite a good CMDR banter going on in chat, I wouldn't of even noticed a fellow human saying anything in chat otherwise, you get fed up with the "come follow me" spam from the NPC's. Anyone one actually followed their wake? I havent.
 
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Riverside

Riverside
If you 'friend' another cmdr in-game, you can talk to them any time you are both in the game, regardless of open/solo/group. Go to the top left chat menu (default is '2'), use your selection keys (Q & E to switch tabs, WASD & [space] to select) to select your friend and select 'send text'.

On the occasions where the system jumps take a long time in open, I switch to solo (where it's not so bad) and can still see if friends are online & chat with them. Of course there are times when one of us cannot chat, if being interdicted for example, so be patient.

If you are both in the same group, or both in open, you can see a green marker on the galmap that shows which system your friend is in. It doesn't tell you where they are in the system, but it's enough info for you to be able to work out roughly what they are doing (exploring = far away, trading = moving systems in a regular pattern, combat/other = in the same system for a long time).

I don't have any real life friends that play E:D, but I've made several friends in-game now. Most fleeting, a few more regular, and one particularly good friend I regularly chat with. It adds to the game immensely.
 
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