Combo icon

[Wiley]

+1 as an option.  I personally wouldn't use it because I don't think I'd like the clutter, but I do find it useful sometimes to know what the friendlies around me are in, and have the alt-i function mapped to my stick.  It helps me anticipate what the friendlies around are going to do, and also allows me to set the enemy up better for them.

Depending on the friendly's plane type, you drag a bit differently.

Wiley.

[LCADolby]

Enemy players names should never show.
But I would like friendly aircraft types and player names to rotate automatically every 5 seconds

[AWwrgwy]

How about merely toggling between normal and type without going through friendly only and off?


wrongway

[lulu]

No, no rotation. It would be super pesky.


 

[smoe]

-or how about -

"pilot name" (standard font)
"plane type - distance" (smaller font)

Adding plane type would reduce noobs from asking what planes their teamates are flying.

FYI -
I just checked and the plane type is currently above the pilot name (not what I showed in my previous comment). My quoted comment above is just an example and not meant to be followed exactly.

I suggest the smaller icon font for multiple reasons: 1. Trying to squeeze the overall size down. 2. The smaller font would help flyers to more quickly distinguish friendly from foe. Similar to today’s modern flight sim's where a triangle or diamond symbol on a heads-up display (HUD) represents different targets.

"In the United States, about 7 percent of the male population – or about 10.5 million men – and 0.4 percent of the female population either cannot distinguish red from green, or see red and green differently from how others do (Howard Hughes Medical Institute, 2006)"
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Color_blindness

[4Prop]

+2
ok so what if you could ALT+I to set it to "combo icon"

so kinda like how you can cycle through icon settings with ALT+I

"normal"
"plane type"
"friendly only"
"combo"
"icons off"