Currently there’s time of the chat message is shown next to chat message. According to Software design basics this is “showing irrelevant information”. If I see a message is sent at 6:31 PM i need to press start key pop my task bar to see the current time and then need to calculate the time difference in my head to see if the message is relevant to what is happening in the game. And it says AM or PM but there’s no way a game last 24 hours to be that information be relevant, if i’m playing a game in the evening I won’t mistake the message to be sent in the morning.
what it should show is either Game time or “1 mins ago”, “5 sec. ago” etc.
You can store the message sent time in the servers maybe it will be relevant if an Investigation or legal thing happens. but for the player it is irrelevant information
I find it useful, so, no thanks.
That said, timestamps are often optional in game settings. I’m on my phone so I can’t check if that’s the case for AoE IV.
Could you explain how is it useful for you, the time stamps? I’m really curious
Could you explain how is it useful for you, the time stamps? I’m really curious
I’ve always found it useful in any online game. “five minutes ago” would have me checking my computer clock as well.
Adjusting server time to your computer’s time is something I would’ve thought the game did already.
By the way, looks like you can turn it off:
Yes yes, could you describe the useful case?
You can subtract the time between the present time and the chat time to understand when messages are sent, and it also keeps the player engaged with reality because it lets you know what time it is IRL.
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ok, how do you read the present time when you do this? is your task bar always visible or do you look at your phone for the present time to compare the chat time? I’m usually a full immersed player, and I dont really keep track of IRL time when I game.
To be honest I’ve never needed to think about how long ago a message was sent. If it wasn’t recent there would be other things in the chat pushing it back (pings and stuff like that), and if it’s about having effective communication I would just be using voice chat. This isn’t exactly a game where responding to text messages >1 minute after they are sent happens very often, at least in my experience.
Anyways, I have a clock on my desk and two other screens which both have a system clock in the corner.
This is what I can’t understand, Why would you want to know the message sent time? like “Oh blue asked me for wood at 6:31 PM” how is that important to you in game? wouldn’t it be easier if I just know ‘Blue asked for wood 1 min ago and I missed it and he probably no longer need it’. I get that you can separate old chat from new chat by looking at time difference, but that can be also done if it was game time or min ago time format.
OK so you mean chat time is not really important to you (you can leave this thread alone). I was pointing out this small detail to the devs in this post thinking that it will be a good improvement, but I was surprised how people got so defensive about it. I thought maybe the i’m the dumb one not knowing how important the IRL time in chat is. That’s why I asked how exactly important it is for you.
By pressing the Windows key (my taskbars are always hidden, and I run all the games I can in borderless windows mode) or by glancing at my phone.
No, I mean that if I am responding to a message over a minute after it is sent then I am very late responding to that message, so needing to know how many minutes after a message is sent seems kind of pointless.
I think your suggestion is useful for other things, or maybe even other people, I was just giving you my personal feedback.
Buddy you don’t even get the point here, yet you’re trying to shut down a suggestion .
If implemented it won’t just say “minutes ago” it will say “now” or “5 sec ago” as well. Which means it makes it easier to distinguish relevant time critical chat from old chat easily without requiring to know the current time.
It’s not that hard to under my suggestion. Either you’re engaging with this thread just for the sake of arguing and dis agreeing. Or you have a hard time understanding things. Sorry.
Let me explain it like for a toddler:
- You notice a game chat from a teammate but didn’t see it when it popped up
- It says “6:30” PM
- How do you know if it is an old message or a message sent a few seconds ago without looking at a clock?
See the problem?
Now if better chat time implemented:
It will say for example “15 sec ago: ‘Send me wood’” now I can know that it is a recent chat message without needing to know the current time.
No, I just wanted to share my personal feelings and engage in a discussion.
For what it’s worth I don’t think your idea is bad, I was just trying to share my feelings on it and answer the questions you’ve been asking me.
