Implemented Small chat QOL

[Taliazure]

Hello everyone,

I wanted to bring up a suggestion regarding something I’ve personally struggled with and feel could improve the experience for others. As someone with dyslexia, reading chat can sometimes be challenging, especially when speech is included directly within the /me actions.

While embedding speech into /me is convenient and tidy, having the same color for the entire text can make it harder to distinguish the dialogue from the rest of the text. Even with font shadows enabled in settings, it can strain the eyes.

I’d like to propose a small change: could we configure the chat system so that any text written within quotation marks ("") appears in white? For example:

**The shepherd shakes his head. "No, I don’t think he’ll switch sides."

This would make dialogue stand out, making chat easier to read and reducing the strain for people who face similar challenges. It’s a simple adjustment that I believe could greatly enhance readability for everyone.
Another example:

 

[Serhan]

I really like this suggestion, and while on this note, I also think arsterisk used to make text italic is broken in /me and /it texts, ie if I just write in the server chat when saying:

This is just *me* talking
It correctly displays: "This is just me talking."

However, these commands are broken:

/me takes *that* gun
Instead of displaying: X takes that gun
Displays: X takes that* gun

/it The vortigaunt is *singing* with passion.
Displays: The vortigaunt is singing* with passion.

I think this is related to how the chat system is implemented, so there is a hidden asterisk added to the start and the very end of the char string instead of a truly italic display like LaTeX format ({it_}). It's a clever programming cheat to write /me and /it but causes errors when adding asterisk to the text.

 

[ford-michigan]

I mean for the * issue you can just put a * at the start of the entire thing then place the rest as need be.

 

[RedHotGinger]

This is the best suggestion ever made I think

 

[Inspector Orlok]

Mr House here

A server I played in the past has a system much similar to this one. To change from a /me to actual text would look something like this:

/me jumps up and down ^0"I like to jump up and down!!" ^6Continues to jump up and down.
=
Jumps up and down "I like to jump up and down!!" Continues to jump up and down.

Overall it leads to a much more concise roleplay experience.
+1 I suppose

 

[M!NT]

APPROVED

 

[Inspector Orlok]

we won

 

[Serhan]

Willardia is saved

 

[M!NT]

@Mango

 

[Mango]

I'll work on this in the following days!

 

[Mango]

Added to the development server; needs some testing!