Chat window organization and filters. Logging?

[Stonze]

I feel like I miss a lot of things with a single window, and then when I try to split my chat/combat windows I feel spammed with useless info.

How many chat windows do you use? How do you filter your chat windows?

I just started using GINA for my kill timers. Now I'm interested if there is a good way to parse chat logs for DPS? Pet DPS? Money per kill/hour?

[Thulack]

3 chat windows.

1st has all stuff not listed below.
2nd has group,say,tell,guild
3rd has ooc,shout,auction,system messages,other

[Swish]

I just started using GINA for my kill timers. Now I'm interested if there is a good way to parse chat logs for DPS? Pet DPS? Money per kill/hour?

whoa there

http://i.imgur.com/1gBWIug.gif

[Yumyums Inmahtumtums]

1) group/say/ooc/shout
2) damage to enemy/pet damage to enemy
3) damage to me (turn off other misses)
4) /who bound to "A" key.
5) tells

That's the red setup - blue doesn't have the /who window

[Halius]

3 Windows for me:

1st has all my chat (shout, ooc, randoms, say, tells, etc.)
2nd has all my combat (skills, melee, spells)
3rd is exclusive to auction for EC so I don't get my chat window spammed when I'm there.

[Wrench]

3 chat windows.

1st has all stuff not listed below.
2nd has group,say,tell,guild
3rd has ooc,shout,auction,system messages,other

similar, altho its nice to have things like spell resists and skillups outside of fight spam

[Ahmet]

I do what Halius does. Interested in trying out Yumyum's damage to/from windows.

[papercolor]

3 windows for me as well.

1 - All chat
2 - All combat + spells + effects
3 - Others hits and misses

[Estu]

Surprised so many people have this many windows. I just have two windows: one for stuff I care about (non-melee damage, /say, /gu, /g, /ooc, /tell, /shout, faction, delicious experience messages) and the other for stuff I don't care about (/auction, melee, most spell stuff). I only have /auc in the second window so that I can keep up with guild chat, etc. when I'm in EC. This setup works pretty well for me although I'm sure it could be optimized a bit.

[Thulack]

similar, altho its nice to have things like spell resists and skillups outside of fight spam

for my first window i have misses filtered out and others hits/misses filtered out so i can see the red spam from spell resists very easily in the window and i do have my skillups in 3rd window. forgot about that.

[Esheon]

1.) Group, Tell, Guild, Raid
2.) Resists, everything not in 1 or 3.
3.) (small window) Melee, Spells, Skills, Experience, abbreviated outputs for the first 2.

[chayes]

"So many boxes"
Make em clearer and all is well ... Big screen=real estate for junk :)

1 for all chat
2 for all combat
3 for things I don't wanna see (misses, skills, pet talk)
(4) when I'm in EC for /auc

Box 1 set to 40%faded transparency
Box 2 set to 30% faded
Box 3 squished down so small text isn't visible - normal transparency @ 0%

[Derubael]

I finally went all classic. Using Velious UI instead of my previous "default". Still have a similar layout to what I used to use. Everything is a bit unaligned right now, a consequence of the way I have to move the windows around and such. These windows are also usually much larger, they are shortened right now because when I stream I like to give a larger field of view (but must cover up my chat windows with a black bar).

http://i.imgur.com/3kQbUeE.jpg

Overall I like this much better than the "default" UI. I feel I have much more overall text space, but keep the same organizational features I liked about my previous UI. This was pretty much the setup I used when I still played as well, though obviously the chat windows didn't need to be expanded so often.

Previous UI for comparison:

http://s27.postimg.org/nt8n43nsj/derugui.jpg

[toolshed]

I feel like I miss a lot of things with a single window, and then when I try to split my chat/combat windows I feel spammed with useless info.

How many chat windows do you use? How do you filter your chat windows?

I just started using GINA for my kill timers. Now I'm interested if there is a good way to parse chat logs for DPS? Pet DPS? Money per kill/hour?

Just found out about this, thanks.

Link for the lazy: http://eq.gimasoft.com/GINA/Default.aspx

[Estu]

I finally went all classic. Using Velious UI instead of my previous "default".

I love the Velious UI and have been using it from day 1. Only disadvantage is that you can't see mana amount - sometimes I switch over to default to check the difference between a couple of pieces of gear - but shit's classic.

[Stonze]

If I have ALL Melee and ALL Spells clicked to a combat window. DOT Damage still shows up in my chat. What am I missing?

[myriverse]

Just 2:
1. my hits
2. everything else