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Shorten the butterfly milking text?

Don't get me wrong: I love the actual contents of the text.  I've seen it about 300 times now, though, and especially when you're doing serious milking, it can quickly obscure the majority of the screen.  Maybe after the first 111 times it shortens to something like "You milk the butterfly with... you get the idea"?  Also, since it appears in the local activity window, does it have to show up as an overlay alert?

Posted 15 months ago by Yarrow Subscriber! | Permalink

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  • +1!
    By now I'm milking butterflies eight times in about ten seconds and it get to the point I can't see my screen at all. The text is hilarious and I adore it but it gets so rather in the way...
    Posted 15 months ago by Loki Laufeyson Subscriber! | Permalink
  • I don't know if you know this but now you can click those black boxes and they go away.
    Posted 15 months ago by MaryLiLamb Subscriber! | Permalink
  • Can you give us a SS for us people who don't remember any boxes???
    Posted 15 months ago by Walla Walla Subscriber! | Permalink
  • +1
    Posted 15 months ago by Jewel Stoned Subscriber! | Permalink
  • I'm gonna bump this up, because this is still an issue. If you have Animal Kinship I to V, you aren't going to have a problem. However, as soon as you can milk instantly without messaging, the messages from butterflies can take up almost your entire screen. Like Rory Pond, I've had more than half of my screen taken up by the messages at times (I'll try and get a screenshot of that).

    An alternate solution would be to make it so the screen wouldn't display multiples of the messages, sort of like how the chat window is designed not to display the same message multiple times in a row.

    Edit: This is an extreme example: i53.tinypic.com/nn2r15.png
    Covering the entire left side is all that's needed to create an annoyance by blocking the view of level changers. Having the entire left side blocked is commonplace, and having the text spill over and block most of the middle of the screen is slightly less common, but still common.
    Posted 14 months ago by Mr. Glenn Subscriber! | Permalink
  • Yes!  +1

    I have a huge problem with this and AKVI.  I do click on the messages to try to clear them, but it's a royal pain in the ass.  That message is great, but only once on the screen please -- or never at all after some point as suggested above.
    Posted 14 months ago by Issek of the Jug Subscriber! | Permalink
  • I will add my vote to this idea as well.   I don't know how difficult it would be to make the change, but I am definitely spending a lot of time clearing my screen of boxes.  This is particularly dangerous when I am in the ancestral lands where I like to milk butterflies along with grabbing the dust traps.  Darn jujus can hide behind those boxes!
    Posted 14 months ago by Varekai Subscriber! | Permalink
  • Yes, I've been butterfly-blind too!
    Posted 14 months ago by Lucille Ball Subscriber! | Permalink
  • +1 - I'm so glad to know I'm not the only one dismayed and distracted by the unnecessarily long milking message. Yeesh, enough already!
    Posted 14 months ago by Becky Subscriber! | Permalink
  • +1!
    Posted 14 months ago by Jedusor Subscriber! | Permalink
  •  Yeah, it's a bit hard to see sometimes.
    Posted 14 months ago by MeansDarling Subscriber! | Permalink
  • I came in to create a topic for this, and here it is!

    So obviously... +1.
    I've milked plenty of butterflies in my time, I don't need the entire novel each time I do it.
    Posted 14 months ago by Eleanor Rigby Subscriber! | Permalink
  • +1 and reported it as a bug (without having seen this thread!) today. It's a real issue.
    Posted 14 months ago by Mackenzie Subscriber! | Permalink
  • How about the text becoming shorter after you've got AK1 under your belt?
    Posted 14 months ago by MG Botia Subscriber! | Permalink
  • How about the text becoming shorter after you've got AK1 under your belt?
    Posted 14 months ago by MG Botia Subscriber! | Permalink
  • alternate suggestion: have the black boxes show the amusing variety of things the animals say back to you rather than the skill use message.  I almost never see those things because they fade fast and get lost in reward spam, and a lot of them are pretty funny!
    Posted 14 months ago by mirth Subscriber! | Permalink