Pop-up message "We lost a ... to the ocean!" in Atlantean campaign is annoying

Bug #1298304 reported by wl-zocker
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widelands
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Medium
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Bug Description

Split out from bug 1298011:
When the water begins to raise and the buildings get lost, the player gets a pop-up message for every building ("We lost a ... to the ocean!"). This hinders the gameplay because the player is most likely not anymore interested in his village, but rather focuses on getting to the lake and building ships as fast as possible.
While I see it is generally important to tell the player he looses buildings, the news window popping up every few seconds (when having increased game speed) is really annoying. A simple message (without pop-up) would do, especially because there are the texts messages which inform the player about the rising water.

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SirVer (sirver) wrote :

Do you think it would be enough to just not pop open the message window, but still send the messages? I plan to rework the message box window also to filter by message categories, so this would then be even less obstrusive.

Changed in widelands:
status: New → Incomplete
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wl-zocker (wl-zocker) wrote :

Maybe I did not express it clear enough: The message is important. We should definitely send it to the player. What annoys me is that it pops up every now and then. I think that is unnecessary.
I am accustomed to getting many uninteresting messages (e.g. when a military building is attacked), so that does not matter that much. Yet I am looking forward to your message filter.

SirVer (sirver)
Changed in widelands:
status: Incomplete → Triaged
importance: Undecided → Medium
milestone: none → build19-rc1
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SirVer (sirver) wrote :

Setting to incomplete for bug sweeping.

Changed in widelands:
status: Triaged → Incomplete
GunChleoc (gunchleoc)
Changed in widelands:
status: Incomplete → In Progress
assignee: nobody → GunChleoc (gunchleoc)
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SirVer (sirver) wrote :

Fixed in r7244.

Changed in widelands:
status: In Progress → Fix Committed
GunChleoc (gunchleoc)
Changed in widelands:
assignee: GunChleoc (gunchleoc) → nobody
GunChleoc (gunchleoc)
Changed in widelands:
status: Fix Committed → Fix Released
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