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Last Night I was dancing at the cantina at Keren on Eclipse, and I found that I was the only entertainer, and that my services were needed.

While I was dancing & flourishing & chatting w/ the patrons & stuff, I didn't notice when a couple of people tipped me. I would have liked to thank the Tipper, but with all the chat windows, XP notifications & such, I just missed it.

Does anyone else have this problem? Do you have any tricks that you use to catch this sort of thing?

If the Devs are reading this: I'd like to suggest that /TIP is treated like /TELL, with a little sound & a different color text.

Dierdre Barszcz
Novice Entertainer
Eclipse

Yep, the xp and flourish spam does make the chat window a little hard to keep up with. Here's what I do:

1) Right click on spatial and remove "system messages" from the included channels. Now you won't see xp, flourishes, *or tips* in your main chat window. This makes having a conversation while entertaining easier.

2) Well, we don't want to lose the tip messages completely, so right click on the chat box, create a new tab, and add only "system messages" to the included channels. Now you have two tabs: one with no system messages, one with just system messages.

3) That's not quite as helpful, becuase you can only see one at a time, right? Wrong. Grab the new tab and drag it away from the chat window. Voila: two windows, one youfollow conversationsin and one with just system messages.

4) Finally, let's make the tips and heals stand out a bit. Go to options (ctrl-O on the standard keymap), and go to the "Chat Color" section. Pick a color that stands out in your color scheme, and add "tips you" "successfully tips" (for bank tips) and "heals you" (so you can thank your medics) as sentence colorizations. Now as system messages will scroll by the messages you care about get highlighted.

For my setup, I've got my main chat window at the bottom center, and the system messages to the right of that. After some time getting used to it,the color change from white (my normal text color) to red (the tip color) catches my attention even from the corner of my eye.

I am still hoping for a tip sound, though.

You can't do the sound right now, but you can color the text.

Go to Options, go to Chat Color and create a new Filter. If I recall my setting correctly, it includes "has tipped you", which doesn't really appear naturally anywhere else. I have that set to neon blue.

I have tips out (for tips to active group members) set to a deep red.

When in a Cantina, I generally open up my third chat window to be taller than the other two. The filtered text comes in nice and bright in them

yup yup,a little ding or something is a must.

Like others I do have a separate tips window (I also have a separate tells window). Just a note on dragging separate windows out to view them simultaneously- this messes up the timing on your alias files if you use them (I do for songs etc.). Has this been fixed since I last tried it? It used to effectively turn a /pause 6; into a /pause 3; which was incredibly annoying when you had spent all the time working on a some choreography.

I also highlight my name in a darkish pink so that I can quickly see if some action is directed towards me.

The 'tips you' and bank credit tips I highlight the entire line in red (likewise for misison complete).

The xp messages I have in dark blue, gray, and another shade of dark blue so that I can read them if I am interested, but they don't get in the way of the important stuff.

That's all I remember of my config right now

Thanks guys. Great suggestions. I'll try them tonight.

Dierdre Barszcz
Novice Entertainer
Eclipse