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Doggeti · Posted: Sat Mar 27, 2004 3:35 pm Post subject: Player name display

The current modes for displaying player names are 'show names of all players', 'show no names' and 'show names of all other players'.
Now imagine you want to make a zone where it's important to hide under 'fly unders'. The ships are covered by the fly under tiles but the names stick out of the hideout

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In your news.txt you could appeal to all players to use the 'show no names' mode but it's not possible to check it. Furthermore you have to use freqships so the players know who is on their team.
My suggestions:

1. Introduce a fourth mode 'no names but another small marking'. This could be a small yellow/blue dot above the ship where the turrets are located.
This way there are no more revealing names but you are still able to recognize your teammates.

2. Give the server the ability to force the clients to use one of these modes. -> Same preconditions for all.
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Dr Brain · Posted: Sat Mar 27, 2004 9:11 pm Post subject:

Unfortunatly, this is a client thing, and not a server thing. Get priitk to implement it client side, and server support will be almost instant.
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Smong · Posted: Sun Mar 28, 2004 8:54 am Post subject:

Make the font black/transparent?

Dr Brain · Posted: Sun Mar 28, 2004 9:01 am Post subject:

Smong · Posted: Sun Mar 28, 2004 9:36 am Post subject:

Either use ?nopubchat, or with asss, set the chatmask so players never get pub chat. In a game where your enemy can be camoflaged, you don't want people in spec telling the locations in pub chat anyway.

Doggeti · Posted: Thu Apr 01, 2004 4:13 am Post subject:

Smong · Posted: Thu Apr 01, 2004 8:05 am Post subject:

Only make the blue font transparent. Team stuff is in yellow.

Doggeti · Posted: Fri Apr 02, 2004 4:08 am Post subject:

If you don't need public chat in your zone that would be the simplest solution.

Mine GO BOOM · Posted: Fri Apr 02, 2004 10:11 am Post subject:

Gravitron · Posted: Sat Apr 03, 2004 7:17 am Post subject:

I do believe that in Infantry the servers handles public chat as a chat catalogued in under its own category, so it may be manipulated in various forms.

Cyan~Fire · Posted: Sat Apr 03, 2004 10:49 am Post subject:

Pub chat displaying as chat-channel chat would be REALLY annoying.
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