Modify Combat Text Color

[Thrain]

Summary (a quick, 2-3 sentence summary):
Adjust the combat text color a bit depending on if you are the one generating the text/it's being done to you, or if it's someone near you attacking/being attacked.

Benefits (How this will benefit the server and game as a whole):
Easier to make out what you are doing in larger fights.

Details (Description of how you think this would work, the benefits, etc):
When a player attacks another player, the combat text that generates should appear red for both players. If, however, some third guy attacks a fourth guy, the text that they generate should probably appear as orange or some other color. This would permit players to easily tell what they are doing themselves, and what other players are doing, without having to read every single message that tends to appear.

Implementation (Optional, if you have an idea how to implement it):
This may be totally impossible to do, but I thought I should put it out there in case it was doable.

[Jeser]

Something should be done with attack logs. I hate playing Alpha exactly because every time fight starts, you have to say "Goodbye" to your squad radio channel. I see both spam and colour problems.

[Lostmixup]

It'd be cool if any actions you do are red, any actions other marines do are like a different shade of red (that's easily distinguishable), and alien's actions are green (and likewise, any friendly alien actions are a different shade).

[GingerCultLeader]

I noticed green is a relatively unused color (unless it is a color from a department I haven't played). Or if for instance you are in pain and your skull is piercing your brain, then there should be an icon. I feel like I am referencing TG a little much; however, if a body part is hurt on TG, then the affected body part changes progressively to red on the target body part icon.

[UnknownMurder]

It would be nice if the players can change the text colors on their choice to whatever the color they prefer.

[Adjective]

I like the idea of it, it would make for easier to read posts when people report events and such, or take screenshots of funny moments. It would also be easier on the eyes than all that red by itself is.

[Jeser]

It would be nice if the players can change the text colors on their choice to whatever the color they prefer.

I don't know, if it is possible, but if yes, we fucking need it. And we need it right now. Playing as Alpha fuck my eyes everytime.

[UnknownMurder]

If the admins can change ooc color. Then, players should have ability to change for them self,

[GingerCultLeader]

That would be cool, but if there is a way to remove the spam from the chatlog, it would make it easier to communicate or know when you are being attacked/attacking.

[Lostmixup]

Holy crap I could actually answer ahelps in the sea of "Shoots m41a" attack logs.

[GingerCultLeader]

Yeah, I was admin once upon a time and understand that. Except CM is like 100 times bigger than what I had to deal with between all the channels, dead chat, LOOC, OOC (when it is on) and emotes and local IC.

[Jeser]

Yeah, I was admin once upon a time and understand that. Except CM is like 100 times bigger than what I had to deal with between all the channels, dead chat, LOOC, OOC (when it is on) and emotes and local IC.

Same here. But even for ordinary player. Every fucking player, at least one time in round has this fucking "combat spam" shit and it's really hard to orientate in chat in these times.

[Lostmixup]

Bump. This is still a good idea.

[apophis775]

This is easy. Accepted.