Enemy Icons

[Heinkel]

Came up with an idea about enemy icons. How about we change the icons, to show connection status. Example, you are flying along, you see an enemy, his icon will look like (one of these)

Red: Enemy plane with good ping
Orange: Enemy plane with medium ping
Yellow: Enemy plane with high ping and bad connection

I would like this, beuase there is nothing worse than getting on the six of a enemy, then he warps, and he is on your six, then getting shot down Basically, i woulnd't be bouncing any yellow's. I run a 60-80 ping to MA on average, but still expirene a lot of warps.

and thanks

[MANDOBLE]

While the idea is good, that would imply that the info about cnx status of all the planes surrounding yours must be kept at the server and transferred to your AH client. More info to kept, more info to transfer -> worse performance.


What about a LED in the cockpit chanching colors based on your cnx quality? Just like the one we have but much more sensible, like having the NetStatus represented in the colour tone of that led.

[Shane]

Originally posted by MANDOBLE
What about a LED in the cockpit chanching colors based on your cnx quality? Just like the one we have but much more sensible, like having the NetStatus represented in the colour tone of that led.

you mean making the "beacon" totally functional in that way?

blank = whatever is determined to be "fantastic - you're a lucky bastage who's connection makes you better than you really are."

green = whatever is determined ot be "good - no whining allowed"

yellow = whatever is determined to be "fair, you might wanna try relogging - moderate whines allowed"

red = whatever is determined to be "sucky, get a real isp, dweeb - prepare for disco - major whining acceptable"

or something like that?

would be nice if on the roster some kind of ping for player showed up, or something.... maybe available only as an option in the tower...

lotta pros and cons to something like this, tho and i'm too lazy to go into them.

[AvidMC]

How about diferent colors for each country?. I sorta liked that in AW and miss it here.

Avid