Squad Leader Archive

Ok, finally hit SL a few hours ago, so I made it a point to try some of the tricks I had planned with what meagre abilities we gain. And the first (and only) one I have is the system message. And with a bit of finesse, and lateral thinking, I have solved this problem for us.

Step 1: Alert other group members about chat colors.

Yeah, let those boneheads know that in the Options menu there is a section for chat colors. This lets you custom tailor all the combat, yell, tell, etc.... messaghes to your liking.

Step 2: Add a custom color for the sentence "Squad Leader".

You have the option to color code specific words (like my name always shows up colored to alert me) and if you use the sentence option the entire sentence where that word appears changes. And that is where our fix comes in. EVERY system message to the group starts with Squad Leader XXXXX XXXXX:, where the X's are your first and last name.

So if you make a custom color for any sentence containing the phrase Squad Leader, then every system message sent by a SL becomes this color.

Problem solved!

Wow, that's a really good idea, thanx

I am impressed... and I tought I knew a lot about this game

You have a keen, tactical mind

That's a good workaround.

However, /sysgroup still needs to be modified to allow us to set colors ourselves. The burden shouldn't be on the squad member to set these options in order to make our abilities useful.

Squad Leader Void Vem: I think it's a consensus that something needs to be done.

Pun definently intended.

Gratz! Nice workaround but unfortunately it doens't solve the problem for ad hoc groups.