DISCUSSION Multiplayer in battle communication....

[Magyar Khan]

For our wish-list I want to investigate what we want for ingame communications besides voicechat....

Do we want being able to give signals ingame/on the minimap?

Koc suggested being able to give delayed signals.... im not in favor of this every signal as respond due enemy action is delayed enough....

So whats left?

[UglyElmo2]

Maybe the ability to set waypoints which your team can see?

I may want someone to cover my left flank, so I set a waypoint on the minimap and it appears on my teammates' minimaps so one can set up there to help out if possible.

It would only take one click to accomplish. Have it set to where it only lasts on the minimap for 10 seconds or so. You could quickly click, and forget about it. You wouldn't even have to talk/chat very often for your teammates to know what you wanted them to do.

[Togakure]

Maybe the ability to set waypoints which your team can see?

I may want someone to cover my left flank, so I set a waypoint on the minimap and it appears on my teammates' minimaps so one can set up there to help out if possible.

It would only take one click to accomplish. Have it set to where it only lasts on the minimap for 10 seconds or so. You could quickly click, and forget about it. You wouldn't even have to talk/chat very often for your teammates to know what you wanted them to do.

Yes indeed, though I'm a little foggy on how it might work mechanically, I definitely like the idea.

[Swoosh So]

You could just have a key that you hold that shows you your allies movement arrows and ghosting from drawing units on the map and assign the arrows and dots colors depending what all it is.

[UglyElmo2]

I think Company of Heroes has a feature where you can set a flag on the map, which only your teammates can see. Maybe have a different color flag for each teammate. It doesn't sound like a big problem to program, though I admit I am no game programmer, my programming experience ended with Fortran 77 and Cobolt and a keypunch machine. :)

[Swoosh So]

I think Company of Heroes has a feature where you can set a flag on the map, which only your teammates can see. Maybe have a different color flag for each teammate. It doesn't sound like a big problem to program, though I admit I am no game programmer, my programming experience ended with Fortran 77 and Cobolt and a keypunch machine. :)

Noone knows what they are elmo :D Yes a flag would be nice also a ping on the map that makes some pingy noise? :p and makes little circles like water ripples on the map. seem to remember a game in the past that said attack here! and did this when an ally set it.