This idea is to have some element of the UI display important event alerts, such as accidents/malfunctions, deaths, new missions, mission completion, rescues, etc. that would be of interest to the user.
This display might be a window that shows a list of events, or a popup/fade-out display over the UI. Mouse clicking on an event might open the person, building, vehicles, etc that is the source of the event.
We currently have a tab in the Monitor Tool that shows events as rows in a table. I'm not sure if it displays events in quite the way we want as alerts, however.
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