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TL;DR

A personal (whisper) chat messages has a different sound than global chat messages to make it distingushable by sound alone.

What ?

If a personal (whisper) chat message had its own, distinct notification sound, a player would know by the sound alone, that someone tried to specifically address that player.

Why ?

I play factorio almost only in multiplayer. On a server with 20 players there can be a lot of chat messages. So many, that I can not follow all the chat, while working on something. I see, it is the same for the other players as well. Sometimes I want to talk to a player and type something like this "@PlayerXYZ: What are you working on?" but that player does not react. Sometimes, after I finished something and have a look at the chat I realise, that someone tried to talk to me somewhen (if that message was not already burried by newer chat messages). If a personal/whisper message had a different notification sound, this could be used to get the attention of the player one wants to talk to. That player would know by sound alone, that a message was addressed specifically at her.

I'd like to upvote this suggestion and add that having the chat notification noise and the research noise the same is confusing. I'd love to have at minimum a different sound for chat and research notifications. Or as Impatient suggests, a different chat sound for each user.