color of notifications (yellow envelopes)

[daro30-77]

Hello, everything is great, a lot of notifications, but one small snag - all notifications, whether about vehicles or buildings, etc., are of one color and with notifications about some global event or fire, there should be envelope colors other than yellow

[ZILonaut]

+1

[Hey_Robert_Here]

Originally posted by daro30-77:

Hello, everything is great, a lot of notifications, but one small snag - all notifications, whether about vehicles or buildings, etc., are of one color and with notifications about some global event or fire, there should be envelope colors other than yellow

Or Perhaps Have Stamps To That Problem Like Fires being Stamped with "URGENT!" Or with A Fire Symbol, Same for Epidemics But with A Cross of some kind?

[eamonn.fanton]

totally agree. fed up with buildings being destroyed because I missed a notification and my fire station had no workers or something similar. Especially in the initial construction phase before your first city is up and running.

I would suggest that a simple siren sound for emergency events such as fires would be more useful, but definitely the notification needs to be a different colour.
When a building is destroyed we get a loud collapsing sound no matter what part of the map we a looking at, so a sound would be far more attention grabbing. I would also imagine playing a simple wav or mp3 sound when these notifications are posted would be simpler than coding for different notification colours, but ideally we should have both.

Also can we not have an option to disable notifications for when new vehicles become available. THat would really help.

[Keeper]

yea it would be good to be able to switch off notifications for certain routes trains waiting traffic jam etc

[leftbehind]

Color alone is bad in terms of accessibility. I like idea of different envelope icons, eg. with a fire icon when it's a fire, etc. That would make it much easier to discern notifications when they first appear and also in the list view of notifications. The icons could then also be used in UI to toggle which notitifications you want to see in the settings panel.

Also, some way to undo clearing a notification (maybe it could still appear in list view?) - I often right click them out of habit only to instantly realise it was a notification I should have read.