DoD marked on map

[AfterDune]

I assume those are the defense domes Dune? If so, couldn?t the dome simply have a map icon, like a big red 60% transparent circle texture or something?

I don't know, if it's possible to place just one objectspawner with a large transparent circle icon, that would with when the DoD is a circle. I'm not sure if that's posible.

And, a DoD doesn't have to be a circle (I have never created a circled DoD for example).

[Rhino]

AfterDune;1502696']Another thing one could do, is put objectspawners on the map, where the DoD's are, where only the minimap icon shows up (the objectspawner itself shows nothing). And the minimap icon could be a red dot for example. Would look something like this:

http://i.imgur.com/eVsRn.jpg

Interesting idea but too many networkables for my liking, epically for a really large DoD.

[ankyle62]

I dont think having anything spawn or making it anymore difficult than a line on the main map is necessary. Throw a line on the map, and call it the Line of Departure. I wouldnt even bother with the mini map.


"Line of Departure - a line established to coordinate attacking units when beginning the attack."

[kgjerding]

Any news on this subject RDEV guys? You gonna make em' or?

G.

[Spush]

What's with the necro posts lately...

[EliteOperator01]

It would be really useful to see something done about this in a future patch or 1.0.

[Onil]

A new solution has been developed and proposed to the Devs. No feedback was received until this day.

I believe that is because some Devs are against the idea of having the DOD's marked on the map as some players might use that awareness to either shoot from within them or ambush outside of them. My main point is that knowing where the DOD is, will help the admins and players be aware where mortars and perhaps even fob's cannot be build. Where flanking tactics will not be possible due to a DOD. Where you might get killed by a 3 second DOD warning if you're not careful. Etc.

There is the possibility of having a minimap overlay with a toggle button, that loads a transparent image with only the DOD outlines and perhaps topography lines or other extra information. This overlay is loaded for each map and can be limited to squad leaders if needed. It can be made layer based but I don't see that as a necessary.

I think that the idea that the DOD's cannot be marked directly on the minimap because of different layers having different DOD locations is in my opinion incorrect. You can use only the outline of the DOD so it doesn't conceal too much and you can use different colors for each layer's DOD and even add the subtitle to the line (STD, ALT, INF). Of course that doing this in the overlay will work a lot better because it means that you can activate/deactivate the overlay and you can limit it to officers.

The usual "Why don't you do it yourself instead of suggesting it?" reply is correct only to a certain degree because even if you do it, it doesn't mean it will get used.

Anyway, we will see what the Dev's decide.

[AFsoccer]

We have decided not to change the in-game minimaps. The method Onil proposed had some drawbacks that we weren't comfortable with and won't go into here (so don't ask).

However, the new map overviews will have the combat zones (out-of-bounds and domes-of-death) marked on them and they can be referenced out of game or on a second screen.

[AncientMan]

Detailed map overviews that are in the map gallery, not the loading map overviews

[AFsoccer]

Detailed map overviews that are in the map gallery, not the loading map overviews

Righto (sorry if that wasn't clear). Once v1.0 is released, you'll see overviews with combat zones drawn on them in this gallery: Project Reality: BF2 Map Gallery

[Anderson29]

A temporary fix till 1.0 comes out. Mapoverlays