37hh Posted October 9, 2019 Report Share Posted October 9, 2019 (edited) Seeing this every 5 mins, in my opinion is aids for my eyes, I don't like seeing it and there's not a single ad I could care about. ( Except LosZantos247 buy some fruit. ) Like /f mute, please give us the ability to mute these. Edited October 9, 2019 by 37hh 1 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Swifty Posted October 9, 2019 Report Share Posted October 9, 2019 Supporting - I made a similar suggestion last year (here) regarding in-game ads. I'm sure everyone has been in a role-play scenario / situation where Weazel ads have ruined the flow and distracted people from those RP situations - I believe this minor addition will definitely help the server long-term. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fuz Posted October 9, 2019 Report Share Posted October 9, 2019 +1. A simple mute/unmute feature would always help. You can mute faction chats so why shouldn't you be able to mute this? 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mopop Posted October 9, 2019 Report Share Posted October 9, 2019 huge +1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Flucifial Posted October 9, 2019 Report Share Posted October 9, 2019 -1, everyone would disable them thus taking any actual advertising ability from weazel. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
37hh Posted October 9, 2019 Author Report Share Posted October 9, 2019 (edited) 9 minutes ago, Flucifial said: -1, everyone would disable them thus taking any actual advertising ability from weazel. If everyone would disable them, then the problem is quite obvious. It's obnoxious and annoying to see. I don't look at advertisements like this irl, makes no sense as to why I'm forced to see them. Edited October 9, 2019 by 37hh Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marca Posted October 9, 2019 Report Share Posted October 9, 2019 I think icons are more than enough and the way weazel ads are displayed is pretty OOC. If I want to see ads, I'll go to the forums. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Freclan Posted October 9, 2019 Report Share Posted October 9, 2019 +1 Hate seeing it so often Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alexalex303 Posted October 9, 2019 Report Share Posted October 9, 2019 (edited) 15 hours ago, Flucifial said: -1, everyone would disable them thus taking any actual advertising ability from weazel. If everyone would disable a system if given the choice, its probably time to analyze the issues and perhaps rework it. Edited October 9, 2019 by alexalex303 2 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aerwyn Posted October 9, 2019 Report Share Posted October 9, 2019 +1 Personally, I believe the system is quite annoying and unimmersive where it is currently maybe make yellow pages on the phone for where ads go and instead of it popping up on chat or making any sound you have to check it manually with the yellow pages app on your phone Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aXoL Posted October 9, 2019 Report Share Posted October 9, 2019 its not a big deal in my opinion, but if someone doesn't want to see an ad so we should not force him +1 from me. but i mean they can kinda add a feature like we open the weazel news app on our phone when ever we want to take a look at ads so it won't pop up into our face every 10 seconds. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CaesarSeizure Posted October 10, 2019 Report Share Posted October 10, 2019 +1 Weazel needs to find a way to make the ads work. Right now, you will have periods where its quiet, a few ads here and there, and then someone comes on, does every bulk ad one after the other and floods the chat. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
37hh Posted October 10, 2019 Author Report Share Posted October 10, 2019 From what I've heard, I think an app in the phone dedicated to ads / weazel is a really good idea Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Drizzy. Posted October 10, 2019 Report Share Posted October 10, 2019 I actually was thinking of this a few days ago. It should be optional on the receivers end if they want to see it. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aldarine Posted October 10, 2019 Report Share Posted October 10, 2019 (edited) +1 If a command to mute it is too much, I am extremely in favor of an app on our phone that stores all the ads and then perhaps an hourly "reminder" about the phone app. I think that's a decent middle ground where players are still informed about the app and all the ads as well as have the option to view them on their phone as well as possibly reference older ads for a specified length of time. That last part I feel is also important to note because dependent on what you are actively doing the moment an ad comes through with the system right now, it may completely get flooded out in a minute whereas other players may be able to see the ad for much longer. Edited October 10, 2019 by Aldarine Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jonaseriksen07 Posted October 10, 2019 Report Share Posted October 10, 2019 I think that they should rather up the prices so not everyone can afford to buy bulk adds all the time. How I see it, that is the biggest problem. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vacant Posted October 10, 2019 Report Share Posted October 10, 2019 +1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KCAJ Posted October 11, 2019 Report Share Posted October 11, 2019 -1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bala Posted October 14, 2019 Report Share Posted October 14, 2019 The danger with something like this is that, the more people that toggle it off and leave it off, the less impact Weazel has as a faction. Perhaps a compromise would be something like a Weazel App on your phone. - If you have a phone and it's switched on, you receive the news bulletins AND the adverts. - However, there could be an Ad Blocker option the Weazel App to toggle the adverts off for different hours, say 30 minutes.. 2 hours.. 4 hours and if you got VIP, permanently. - You wouldn't however be able to hide the news bulletins, because often they do contain information relevant to the city and it still allows Weazel some relevancy without the ads being forced down your throat. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aerwyn Posted October 14, 2019 Report Share Posted October 14, 2019 1 hour ago, GOAT said: The danger with something like this is that, the more people that toggle it off and leave it off, the less impact Weazel has as a faction. Perhaps a compromise would be something like a Weazel App on your phone. - If you have a phone and it's switched on, you receive the news bulletins AND the adverts. - However, there could be an Ad Blocker option the Weazel App to toggle the adverts off for different hours, say 30 minutes.. 2 hours.. 4 hours and if you got VIP, permanently. - You wouldn't however be able to hide the news bulletins, because often they do contain information relevant to the city and it still allows Weazel some relevancy without the ads being forced down your throat. So I'll be honest I'd also like it if I could mute it for a good while, whilst on duty for MD as when the ads come in force radio calls which are important so they get typed are drowned out by SELLING A 1G CONTACT XXXXX, LOOKING FOR SINGERS AND DANCERS, etc 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
David Moretti Posted October 15, 2019 Report Share Posted October 15, 2019 -1 from me even tho I really hate getting them so often, but in real life, you would listen to all sorts of advertisements over the radio or whatsoever. Also, it would kill the idea of people paying for those ads, bulks and similar. From my personal opinion, I would leave it as it is for now. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aerwyn Posted October 15, 2019 Report Share Posted October 15, 2019 3 minutes ago, David Moretti said: -1 from me even tho I really hate getting them so often, but in real life, you would listen to all sorts of advertisements over the radio or whatsoever. Also, it would kill the idea of people paying for those ads, bulks and similar. From my personal opinion, I would leave it as it is for now. Personally with your reasoning maybe we can come to a compromise where if realistically your car would have the radio even if ads are muted it'd be shown because you can't avoid radio advertisements but I believe you should be able to mute it when walking on foot or in an emergency vehicle of some sort as realistically you wouldn't see the advertisements if you muted your phone or were on duty in a emergency services department Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
David Moretti Posted October 15, 2019 Report Share Posted October 15, 2019 1 minute ago, Aerwyn said: Personally with your reasoning maybe we can come to a compromise where if realistically your car would have the radio even if ads are muted it'd be shown because you can't avoid radio advertisements but I believe you should be able to mute it when walking on foot or in an emergency vehicle of some sort as realistically you wouldn't see the advertisements if you muted your phone or were on duty in a emergency services department I fully support your statement and I am fully getting to your point. Especially because those ads are shown when you're on foot, bike, car, helicopter, boat, bed, house, sky, farm, etc. etc., so we could assume that it is not totally role-play. The fact that I am saying is that even since SAMP RP times and server, this existed and it was always used and scripted like this. I am just saying that I am 101% sure that 85% of the players would have that muted (toggled off) all the time and having those ads would totally become useless and in that way, Weazel News faction would lose 50% of things to do, so it would also become kind of useless faction in my opinion. That's pretty much why I said that I would like it to keep it as it is right now, even tho I am the first person that hates seeing all of those ads in game over and over again, all the time. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mariaaaa Posted October 15, 2019 Report Share Posted October 15, 2019 -1 just due the fact that most of us will mute/disable the ads, though in some situations it's definitely annoying especially when they send multiple at the same time. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
37hh Posted October 16, 2019 Author Report Share Posted October 16, 2019 7 hours ago, Mariaaaa said: -1 just due the fact that most of us will mute/disable the ads ?? LOL Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
