A suggestion to the game: Ping

Wolf · Post by **Wolf** » Sat Feb 15, 2014 7:14 pm

Basically I have been playing some multiplayer games with a friend and when I tell him about something and he asks where it is I find myself having to find a landmark that tells him where it is.

In this situation it would very much help to be able to ping the map.

I"m not sure if people will like this since the original didn't have it,
but I would like to see it and most of the modern strategy games have it.

Thank you for reading.

-Wolf

Post by **Scott_NZ** » Sat Feb 15, 2014 11:26 pm

This has been wanted by the devs for a while, and is a pretty sound suggestion.

KonshusKeboobZionist · Mon Feb 17, 2014 1:27 pm

Yeah, this would be really nice. Could be either on the minimap or directly in-game with a smoke-bomb like sprite... how does it work in other RTS?

-Jes- · Post by **-Jes-** » Tue Feb 18, 2014 8:32 pm

Personally I wouldn't mind seeing something like the on-map drawing system in the Spring RTS Engine.

Sure, it's a much bigger addition, but then the benefits are greater as well.
It would be incredibly useful for team-based games, and would not be exploitable due to drawings being team-exclusive - only allies could see it, and allies could erase it just as easy.

Matt · Post by **Matt** » Fri Feb 21, 2014 8:46 pm

See https://github.com/OpenRA/OpenRA/pull/4682 for the Generals like triangle that is currently making its way into the development version.

BaronOfStuff · Post by **BaronOfStuff** » Fri Feb 21, 2014 10:28 pm

A small marker on the minimap with an unintrusive alert sound -- somewhat similar to the action in AoEII -- would actually be a neat addition. Perhaps the marker could be the colour of whichever player uses it.

Post by **Scott_NZ** » Fri Feb 21, 2014 11:54 pm

I have fully implemented this word-for-word, and it will be in the next playtest.