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I can keep this announcement really short and simple, since the reasoning and actual changes are also very simple. So without further ado, first the reasoning:
All of these changes are currently undergoing live testing for a few weeks to see how the players respond. After that, we'll do some polling to see what sticks and what needs to be changed again.
- MassiveChat has always been designed to make players want to donate, but did so too aggressively, resulting in the plugin being overly dismissive of people who don't donate ever, turning into a "white tide".
- Players from other servers have issues adapting to the "white tide", and the chat modifiers (while functionally superior to constantly switching channels to focus on) are convoluted because you need to remember 10 or so letters to just perform simple switches.
- Emotes become hard to parse from regular text due to their white color. While colored emotes were embraced by some players, it didn't really hit home with others, which defeated the point of colored emotes.
- Say remains unchanged, being still the same.
- Whisper remainsun changed, but now has an alternative method. Aside from using the asterisk * key at the end to turn a sentence into a whisper, you can use #wh at the end of a sentence to whisper.
- Mutter remains unchanged, but now has an alternative method. Aside from using the $ key at the end to turn a sentence into a mutter, you can use #mu at the end of a sentence to mutter.
- Ask remains the same, used with ? at the end of a sentence.
- Exclaim remains the same, used with ! at the end of a sentence, for slightly increased say range.
- Yell has been renamed to Shout, and appears in all-red when used in local chat, with !! at the end of a sentence.
- Scream has been recolored to all-red, just like Shout, with !!! at the end of a sentence.
- Command has been recolored to all-red, just like shout, and has been given an alternative method. Besides using & for Command, you can now also use #co at the end of a sentence to turn it into a command.
- Sing has been recolored to all-light-purple, and has been given an alternative method. Besides using > for Sing, you can now also use #si at the end of a sentence to turn it into a sing.
- Announce remains unchanged, being used with @, though can also alternatively be used with #an at the end of a sentence to turn it into an announce.
- Emote has been made Yellow, used with + at the end of a sentence.
- Emoteyellow which is +1 is now white to compensate.
- Emotegold is still the same, +2, though keep in mind Whisper emote is now also gold in color.
- Emotegreen is still the same, +3, though keep in mind Announce emote is now also green.
- Emotered is still the same, +4
- Emotelightpurple is still the same, +5, though keep in mind sings is now also light purple, albeit with music note letters around it.
- Emoteblue is still the same, +6
- Emotedarkaqua is still the same, +7
- Emotedarkgreen is still the same, +8
- Emotegray is still the same, +9
- These alternate color emotes exist for those who just don't like their emotes being yellow.
- Environment chat remains the same, but now only triggers on #env to avoid issues with other chat modifiers starting with #
- OOC Chat remains the same, triggered with )) or // at the end or beginning of a sentence.
- Announce Emote (an emote with a long range) is now completely in Lime Green, and can still be triggered with an = at the end of a sentence, but can also be triggered with +h (h standing for "high").
- Whisper Emote (an emote with 5 block range) is now completely in Gold, and can still be triggered with _ at the end of a sentence, but can also be triggered with +l (l standing for "low").
All of these changes are currently undergoing live testing for a few weeks to see how the players respond. After that, we'll do some polling to see what sticks and what needs to be changed again.
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