TOPIC: [TTT] Suggestion

Server Name:
TTT
Suggestion Title:
Detective name in text chat is blue.
How would it benefit the server:
When the detective is talking in text chat he is more clearly marked so people know strait away that it is the detective.
Potential Issues/Exploits:
N/A
Additional notes:
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It already is in the radio binds which is more important than normal chat.

Nick0GR wrote: True but people say test or kos in normal chat and other things

MemesAreGoodWithKim wrote: It takes less than 2 seconds to press tab and find out if someone is a detective or not.

I would actually really like this change. Whenever I ask for a lifecheck, for example, I never really get any responses. I think that if this were introduced the Detective could work a lot more efficiently.

I'm not sure how difficult this would be to implement though.

Raeker wrote:
I don't think it would be to hard.
I will have a look at it later tonight and post again, if Mr Deadmonstor isn't faster than me of course.

Just a quick question: which plugin is currently used for stuff like the rank colors for staff/experience ranks in chat?
I guess it's easier to just implement it there than to make a new script or to mess with the base chat script from Gmod.
Maybe PM me via Forums/Discord, Discord name is Dr. House, I'm on the TTT Discord.

House wrote:
Its a custom script and nobody will be looking at it for a while

Raeker wrote: Yes it only took 5+ suggestion but raeker likes one of my suggestions

MemesAreGoodWithKim wrote: Start making better suggestions

Nick0GR wrote:

Ramen wrote:

So, after searching in cl_voice.lua for half an hour I noticed that in the vanilla terrortown gamemode this is already
implemented which I confirmed right away:



See cl_voice.lua script, line 68.



So I guess that your custom script is overwriting it or something.
Maybe you could just add those lines, test it out and see if it works like that or find what is overwriting it.

Regards
House

Edit: I'd personally prefer a darker blue tho.

House wrote:
But then that could conflict with the admin tag in game chat although it isn’t there now I believe it’s being worked on

Hi again,
I just noticed something:
When using the radio binds as Detective the name of the player is blue.
If they write something in chat however, their name is green.

That should help finding where the problem is.. hopefully.

Raeker wrote: While i do see some merit in the suggestion i feel saying it would allow the detective to work a lot more efficiently is a bit of stretch.

From experience with using the radiobind lifecheck it tends to get even less responses on average than if i were to just to type "lifecheck respond in 20s or you will be KOSed" and that already appears in blue to show you are a detective. There are a few possible reasons for this, the first being that in my opinion it could be worded a bit better. At the moment saying "anyone still alive" can give the impression that it is more of a question and is optional, as a result players tend to ignore it not realising that they can be KOSed for not responding. The other reason is that again in my opinion the blue text it uses for detectives(and i really don't know why i am like this) always tends to be unnoticed by me, maybe it would help if it was a darker blue to make it stand out more.

As for more general use i feel that simply changing the detectives text to mark them as a detective will do very little. With things like asking people to test or calling a lifecheck the issue is not that players cannot tell if its a detective, the issue is that the vast majority of players are brand new and do not even know what these things mean. You can mark them as a detective all you want but that wont change the fact that if its a new player they will not know where the tester is or even know what testing is at all. Same with lifechecks, most players are new so may not know what it is and therefore don't respond. For the players who are not brand new they can easily just press tab and it takes no time to see if they being spoken to by a detective.

House wrote: House you didn’t have to find that but what ever I would of just left it for DEAD but it’s good to see your dedication to the server

As shown it appears like this is a feature in-game, but it's being overridden by something else.
However we will look into resolving this issue.

Fixed.