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/cm Command Changes

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  1. Eil

    Eil Ex-Raid // Perm. Ban Manager
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    Recently I noticed some changes to the /cm command (Colour Message Command for Elite Rank). As many of you will probably know, Minecraft colour codes work like this.

    If I did:
    /cm &6Hi -> Hi
    /cm &6&nHi -> Hi

    Now, this worked - Different colour codes for different colours, and for different formatting (Underlined, Bold etc). However, now I see that changes have been made and if I wanted:

    Hi

    I now have to do:

    /cm Dark_Green Hi

    Now what happens if I want to add formatting like the underlined? Well, as far as I know from my testing, you can't. You can have 1 colour or format in your whole message which I find quite annoying. I love colour codes and enjoy making messages with them. For example when people get accepted as sheriff rank on WildWest, I give them a nice well done message:
    Screen Shot 2016-07-31 at 13.14.13.png
    I cannot do this anymore since:
    A - I can't do more than 1 Colour/Formatting
    B - If I could add more than 1, I would not have enough typing room to type:

    Grey, Bold, Obfuscated.. Red, Bold CONGRATULATIONS Grey, Bold, Obfuscated.. Gold, Bold RVNG_SLAYER now has Sheriff!

    That message I could not type if I had to type the colour/formatting words instead of the codes since its too many characters to fit in the MC text bar - With the codes, that same message would look like this:

    &7&l&k..&c&lCONGRATULATIONS&7&l&k.. &6&lRVNG_SLAYER now has Sheriff!

    You can clearly see the difference in lengths. What I am asking is if we can go back to being able to use colour codes.
     
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    #1 Eil, Jul 31, 2016
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  2. Champloo

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    I prefer the old system, just add an explanation of how to do every colour and Bold.
     
    #2 Champloo, Jul 31, 2016
  3. Eil

    Eil Ex-Raid // Perm. Ban Manager
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    I think go back to the old system and make it so you can do /cmhelp and you get a message looking like this: Colorhelp_www.kepfeltoltes.hu_.png
    That way - If people don't know how to use the codes, they can easily find out.
     
    #3 Eil, Jul 31, 2016
  4. StarZManZ

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    I never had perm to that system but I agree with this.
     
    #4 StarZManZ, Jul 31, 2016
  5. chickenputty

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    Sorry, but you can thank those individuals who were faking chat messages, alerts, and the such.

    I can only see us adding back ways to add bold, italic, underline, etc to colored messages, but I can't think of a good way of doing so.

    The colors show up when you press tab (on this new system).
     
    #5 chickenputty, Jul 31, 2016
  6. Champloo

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    Okay, cool!
     
    #6 Champloo, Jul 31, 2016
  7. Slovakoko

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    I feel like brawl will tend to change things that really don't need change. Sure there could have been some issues, but reworking the whole thing isn't exactly needed. I enjoyed the old system.
     
    #7 Slovakoko, Jul 31, 2016
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    As I said right above, people were abusing it to appear as staff by using the same coloring as PMs, announcements, etc. It was causing confusion from players who don't know everything about the server. We'd even have people contacting staff about when they "said" something.

    Pretty sure the method we took to resolve this is pretty much the only thing you can do. We can't do matches on the formatting since there are so many different possibilities.
     
    #8 chickenputty, Jul 31, 2016
  9. Carcano

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    Revert to the old system, anybody caught faking alerts pms and stuff gets punished.
     
    #9 Carcano, Jul 31, 2016
  10. Ry23an

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    The only time I really used /cm was to troll my friends/teammates :stuck_out_tongue: Rip friendly trolling. :'(
     
    #10 Ry23an, Jul 31, 2016
  11. Eil

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    Revert back to the old system (as everyone wants) and if someone is faking alerts/Staff PMs - /chatreport
    The new system removes all the fun from colour messages.
     
    #11 Eil, Aug 1, 2016
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