Alert Streamlining

[Cagliostro]

So, at present there's a whole host of alerts up at the top, and the icons don't always suggest how serious the alert is.

What I want to suggest is that the alerts be grouped - that is, placed in different physical places.

The primary sub-categories I want to see are:

1) alerts which need a response - like someone sending you a diplomatic envoy, or an anomaly being located
2) feedback to your actions - like someone answering your diplomatic envoy, or debris analyzed, or the like
3) ongoing conditions - like having too many core worlds, or having a resource shortfall

Personally it would help me sort through the pings a lot better, especially in multiplayer.

Honestly I feel like maybe ongoing conditions should be located on the left side to distinguish them more dramatically from actual one-time events, and the other two categories should be placed in two rows at the top. But really almost any sort of streamlining/separation would be preferable. I hate that someone asking me for a trade deal looks almost identical to someone answering my trade deal, for example.

 

[mergele]

Diplomatic messages sent to me and notifications about the diplomatic doings of other empires really need to be distinguishable.

 

[Cagliostro]

Diplomatic messages sent to me and notifications about the diplomatic doings of other empires really need to be distinguishable.

Yeah, that is also a good point!

 

[Funk Biscuit]

Maybe put those categories into a setting, so you can turn some off and some on. Maybe color code the borders of the alert too? Also an archive of notifications would be neat too.

 

[Cagliostro]

Maybe put those categories into a setting, so you can turn some off and some on. Maybe color code the borders of the alert too? Also an archive of notifications would be neat too.

The first two I definitely agree with; the third I don't see a super need for, though maybe other people play differently than I do. Though at any rate an event log could be handy.