Last release (v1.40.0) was greeted with mixed responses. Some enjoyed mention highlighting. Others did not. This patch release intends to solve that by giving you some options on how highlighting should work.
Features
Highlight settings
Three new settings have been added under Player Settings (click cog-wheel icon next to Logout):
Highlight triggers
Highlight your character’s name and other mention triggers in the chat log.
Highlight messages
Highlight communication either directly targeting your character, or in which your character is mentioned.
Highlight own messages
Highlight communication sent by the character you are controlling.
Highlighted messages will have a slightly lighter background color:
Thanks to @WakuWaku and @Windchaser for bringing it up in game and in this topic.
Thanks to @Shinyuu and @farcaller for the ideas and examples of message highlighting!
Improvements
OOC modifier for pose command
It is now possible to use the OOC modifier (>) with the pose command:
pose > must idle 5 minutes.
:> is back.
results in:
Accipiter ooc must idle 5 minutes.
Accipiter ooc is back.
Lower contrast OOC trigger highlighting
The brightness of highlighted triggers in OOC text has been lessened, to make the contrast less distracting.
Fixes
Muted pills not wrapping
When muting characters or travel messages, the placeholder “pills” did not wrap to a new line when too many were stacked. This has been fixed.
Thanks to @IcoTwilight for reporting it in this topic!
Area not transferred on character delete
When deleting a character, the areas owned by that character was not transferred to the selected heir. This has been fixed.
Thanks to @Thick_Werewolf for reporting it in this topic!
Character name triggers mention even when deleted
When someone mentions your character name or full name, it would trigger mention highlighting even if those mention triggers had been deleted. This
Thanks to @Windchaser for making me aware of the bug. Or was it Waku? Oh well. Thanks!