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| ID | Project | Category | Date Submitted | Last Update | |
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| 0006437 | AI War 1 / Classic | Suggestion - Interface Ideas - Multiplayer Communication | Mar 5, 2012 2:26 pm | Mar 16, 2012 6:23 pm | |
| Reporter | char456 | Assigned To | |||
| Status | considering | Resolution | open | ||
| Summary | 0006437: "Admiral" Command Interface | ||||
| Description | First off, playing this game with multiple human allies is the most fun I've had in a multiplayer game, hands down. Second, a feature I'd love to see added is some kind of interface to allow one player (elected or just the host maybe) to have an "Admiral" interface. As you know, the game can get pretty hectic when the actions of an individual heavily affect your team as a whole. Many times, people don't know what their next objective should be. Many times we divide into certain roles: Raider, Attacker, Defender, etc. Sometimes we divide up the team to clear a path to a certain planet, or assign people to scout out different desirable planets/objectives to capture. Regardless of how we are currently dividing duties, success depends HEAVILY on having a unified grand strategy. I think that, instead of having to regularly remind people of their goals, it would be great if I could assign individual players objectives. Perhaps I could assign some primary and secondary objectives to individual players that would appear as text on the right-hand side of their main display, or even just appear as objectives on the map screen. This would give each player their own separate set of objectives -- ideally, they'd only see the objectives which they've been assigned. I don't think it would be necessary to automatically remove the objectives once completed, as I'm sure that would be a much larger scale change, but I'd love to see some way to keep a team organized and following a unified strategy. Anyway, thank you for your consideration. Being a programmer myself, I know that changes can't just be slapped together, but I just thought I'd offer my suggestion to make this amazing multiplayer experience even more amazing. Thanks! | ||||
| Tags | No tags attached. | ||||
| Internal Weight | Feature Suggestion | ||||
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Hmmm. To keep it simple, what about something in the Stats window, maybe optionally always displayed where (or in?) the chat window? I'm thinking a simple table of Player: Text Box where the player can enter (Building forces to attack system) or (On defence against exo-wave in this system) Nothing as grand as what you are thinking and would be limited by the display space but would be easier to implement, except for the screen real estate issue anyway. |
