I think I can tell when I annihilate a metal extractor

...however the notification spam hides incoming raids on my base.

The fix is simple: I only need to know when my own units die; I really don't care if the entire opposing army is accidentally obliterated by my standby units.

Questions? Comments? A mod might be nice in the meantime.

I liked notifications better before this last update. When you are amassing armies, it gets annoying seeing a notification for every unit being created. I don't know how I would feel about a notification every time one of your units was destroyed.

I also enjoyed seeing massive notifications when the enemies base was being destroyed.
Maybe in the future notifications could be customized.

Well yes, rather than a notification each time a unit is destroyed, a single "engaged the enemy!" notification would be probably be best. It would need to be on a timer so that if a particular set of units (e.g. turrets) keep wiping out trollbots every few seconds, you would still only get 1 notification and then it shuts up.

However receiving massive notifications when tearing up the enemy's base is exactly the problem; if I'm microing the invasion, I need notifications to tell me if my own base is being invaded.

Agreed. I've been asking for this for a while.

The notification spam is very counterproductive.

It tells me things I don't need to know, hiding the things I need to know.

We desperately need ways to filter out what notifications we have.

We need:

Huge notifications for celestial activity and nukes.

Small notifications for structure destruction

Small and one notification for mex harass; ie; "Metal extractors under attack"

In general, you shouldn't receive notifications for things you can see in your main viewport in my opinion. (with rare exceptions such as commander deaths) Notifications should be for things you actually need to be notified of.

For the people who want to feel good about razing opponents' bases, you could have a separate notification area for the mass-spam "small" notifications. Preferably with an option to hide it.

Edit: Actually, having separate mass-spam notifications might be a really good thing, to remind you of current events in case you missed the one-off big notification.

there's a mod...

Look what I dug up on the thread graveyard

https://forums.uberent.com/threads/perimeters.60452/

Shouldn't be to hard to implement and basically lets you pick when you want to be notified.

Hmm so there is. Nice.

Now if only I could get the current build to run I could try it.

Edit: The thread for the current version is here.

why don't you try @cola_colin's instead?