Feature request: color code notifications

[The-Talik]

Before creating

• This is NOT a gameplay feature from Civ VI, BNW, or outside - see Roadmap
• This is NOT a gameplay feature from Vanilla Civ V or from G&K - If so, it should be a comment in Missing features from Civ V - G&K #4697

Problem Description

During war there can be a lot of notifications and important ones can be missed.

Related Issue Links

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Desired Solution

An easy UI help would be to color code them, so beneficial ones are green, alerts orange, danger red, etc.. specifically, unit destroyed messages should stand out visually from unit attacked ones.

Alternative Approaches

NA

Additional Context

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[yairm210]

What would such 'standing out' would look like, visually?

[yairm210]

We already have the icons specifically for this purpose, from past attempts coloring the entire notification looks very bad and is not the way to go

[The-Talik]

Yeah, I was picturing background coloring. Bootstrap alerts do a pretty good job of coloring without being obnoxious: https://getbootstrap.com/docs/4.0/components/alerts/
Looks like they tint the text slightly to match the background, which might be why it's easier on the eyes.
But if you've tried it, and it doesn't work, then it doesn't work. Just an idea.
Thanks for responding so quickly!

[SomeTroglodyte]

Looks like they tint the text slightly

Yes they do:

.alert-danger {
    color: #721c24;
    background-color: #f8d7da;
    border-color: #f5c6cb;
}

Technically, this would mean re-evaluating every single addNotification call and let them control a new field (no matter its type - Color or enum class AttentionLevel or whatever. No backward compat issues, games being shared back and forth over different versions would simply lose the extra style. Could easily be made user-switchable in options, and skinnable to allow control over actual styling). Still, nah, not quite worth the effort. I'd maybe prefer collapsibility and user-reordering of categories - still not quite worth the effort. Or, Moo3's 'acknowledging' of messages...

[yairm210]

Hmmm
I think the solution may be the wrong one, but the problem is real - some notifications are more important than others.
I think this can be solved by adding an 'importance' to each notification, defaults to low, and displayed notifications will be sorted by importance

[The-Talik]

Maybe a few ways to display notifications, then. Since you don't get animations for enemy turns, I read through the combat log from the bottom to get a sense of what the enemy did each turn. If the "destroyed" messages were somewhere else, that would make it hard to understand the order of things. Honestly, the "destroyed" messages are the only ones that I wish stood out more. Maybe even just bolding the word "destroyed" or "captured" would be enough.

[hackedpassword]

I've wanted to mention making "destroyed" colored red for some time. The topic makes sense, at minimum, destroyed actions are the highlights of notifications during war.

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