For those who have not been following the Victoria 3 forums, it looks like the V3 team is seriously looking into message settings (see quote below) and I would like to once again encourage/beg the CK3 team to get the feature into CK3.
@Wizzington also gives some context as to why the CK3 team has not seen message settings as necessary:
I would like to argue that, while Wizzington is correct that CK3 does not currently have a notification spam problem, it should have that as a possibility, per individual player desires. As the below exchange shows, different players want to be notified of different things:
As shown on another thread, the CK3 team is already making compromises and leaving out potentially-useful notifications in order to avoid spamming the player:
And this will only get worse as development continues. Every major update and DLC will add (the potential for) new notifications. And a recent DD stated that the next expansion will be
For further proof that the players want message settings, just head over to the suggestions sub-forum and click the "popular" button. The Message options suggestion thread is at the top of the list with a commanding lead over the second-place suggestion for an AI adultery rework despite that issue getting a fresh thread here on the main CK3 forum seemingly much more often with at least 3 threads in just the last several months (here, here, and here) and no easily-discovered new message setting threads in that time (though a long-running thread was bumped back in September).
CK3 devs, I understand the desire to avoid adding message settings and applaud you on managing things as well as you have. That said, this game would greatly benefit from message settings and the players clearly want them. So, please, I implore you, add message settings to CK3.
TLDR: CK3 needs message settings. The suggestion thread has a commanding vote lead over all other suggestion threads. Go up-vote the suggestions thread.
Fellow CK3 players, what do you think of the current notification/message setup? What new notification(s) would you like to see? What notifications do you currently ignore? And what notifications/messages would you move between the various messaging formats (message feed, toast, situations button, and individual notification) were there an option to do so?
@Wizzington also gives some context as to why the CK3 team has not seen message settings as necessary:
I would like to argue that, while Wizzington is correct that CK3 does not currently have a notification spam problem, it should have that as a possibility, per individual player desires. As the below exchange shows, different players want to be notified of different things:
Why shouldn't PlayerA, if they so desire, be notified of everything happening in their court and realm, from courtier pregnancies to the marriage of a vassal to the outbreak of a vassal war? And why shouldn't PlayerB be able to set things up so that they get notifications about the goings-on in neighboring realms? Or just one's own immediate family? Or all king+ rulers across the entire map? Or any other configuration one can think of?
As shown on another thread, the CK3 team is already making compromises and leaving out potentially-useful notifications in order to avoid spamming the player:
And this will only get worse as development continues. Every major update and DLC will add (the potential for) new notifications. And a recent DD stated that the next expansion will be
I find it difficult to believe that this can be done without adding notifications.
For further proof that the players want message settings, just head over to the suggestions sub-forum and click the "popular" button. The Message options suggestion thread is at the top of the list with a commanding lead over the second-place suggestion for an AI adultery rework despite that issue getting a fresh thread here on the main CK3 forum seemingly much more often with at least 3 threads in just the last several months (here, here, and here) and no easily-discovered new message setting threads in that time (though a long-running thread was bumped back in September).
CK3 devs, I understand the desire to avoid adding message settings and applaud you on managing things as well as you have. That said, this game would greatly benefit from message settings and the players clearly want them. So, please, I implore you, add message settings to CK3.
TLDR: CK3 needs message settings. The suggestion thread has a commanding vote lead over all other suggestion threads. Go up-vote the suggestions thread.
Fellow CK3 players, what do you think of the current notification/message setup? What new notification(s) would you like to see? What notifications do you currently ignore? And what notifications/messages would you move between the various messaging formats (message feed, toast, situations button, and individual notification) were there an option to do so?
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