Squad colors

Valtasar · Post by **Valtasar** » 2007-01-04 21:05

I don't know is it a good idea or evan whate to use it so dont kill me.
Is it possible to be able to see each squad in diferent color maybe for SL only.
Good/bad? Just a idea. Disscus.

Aus Sniper01 · Post by **Aus Sniper01** » 2007-01-05 04:07

Mate thats a sick as idea

god thinking champ.

Daedal-Rogue · Post by **Daedal-Rogue** » 2007-01-05 06:39

Agreed, you can refer to squad by color, and all the squad members could also share the color on the map, and leave the people not in a squad as a dull grey

Thats brilliant man, absolutely brilliant...now this brings the question of is it possible?

Post by **Mongolian_dude** » 2007-01-05 06:40

Lone Wolves can be Red lol. so they get shot just as much as enemy, serves em right.

...mongol...

Top_Cat_AxJnAt · Post by **Top_Cat_AxJnAt** » 2007-01-05 07:20

Charlie must be green and bravo blue!

Downtown_two · Post by **Downtown_two** » 2007-01-05 12:15

Lovely Idea, I'm getting sick of "We can move, squad.....*squints at minimap*....3 are defending"

LiquidSnake · Post by **LiquidSnake** » 2007-01-05 12:17

This idea is very very nice... but we gotta find some colors besides red and blue.
my choice: green, white, pink, orange, yellow, dark green, light blue, brown and purple.
But I think that brown isn't that good, because it would be barely visible on urban maps.

Surround · Post by **Surround** » 2007-01-05 13:06

And want this to the next version after next. To 0.6

Threedroogs · Post by **Threedroogs** » 2007-01-05 16:15

this idea has been around a while now. although instead of making each squad a different color, i would rather see each squad member have a different color.

for instance:

SL is green
SM1 is orange
SM2 is blue
SM3 is pink
SM4 is black
SM5 is white

each squad would have the same color scheme. this way, the SL wouldnt need to know the names of his SMs to issue orders. bring up the map and see that your blue SM needs to be in xyz position.

it doesnt help with quickly ID'ing other squads on the map, but i've never had a problem with that...

DirtyHarry88 · Post by **DirtyHarry88** » 2007-01-05 16:22

I don't really see any point in different squad members having different colours.

Clypp · Post by **Clypp** » 2007-01-05 17:14

Squad member colors sounds nice. I don't know how handy it will be however with squad members joining and leaving thus reorganizing the list.

Threedroogs · Post by **Threedroogs** » 2007-01-05 17:55

DirtyHarry88 wrote:I don't really see any point in different squad members having different colours.

well...being able to look up at the mini-map and know exactly who is where seems like a pretty good point (instead of just seeing 4-5 green dots)...

i lead squads a lot, and i'd love to be able to give quick orders like "blue take lead" and "black, you've got the rear" (without having to bring up the capslock map, click on the green icon to see who it is, and then giving the order). it's all about timing and efficiency. saving 10 seconds can mean the difference between success and failure.

of course, 30m nametags will help this out a lot, but you can see much further than 30m on the minimap...

<edit> just thought of something that would maybe be better. how about a feature that allowed an SL to assign a point man to his squad. i dont want to be the point man when i'm squad leader, but it's hard to get your squad to follow someone else when the rest of the squad is nothing but green dots.

example:

as SL, i assign SM2 as pointman. he now shows up white to my squad, instead of green (on the minimap). now the entire squad can quickly orient themselves to the pointman and get in position. thoughts?

Guerra norte · Post by **Guerra norte** » 2007-01-05 18:23

Squad members should be assigned different colors for classes and numbers so you don't die trying to figure out how to say |_337K3\/\/l_5n|p3r

LiquidSnake · Post by **LiquidSnake** » 2007-01-05 20:07

Leetcoolsniper

semi-wicked · Post by **semi-wicked** » 2007-01-05 20:09

Yeah I definately vote for coloured squads. Would make it much easier for the commander to communicate with the different squads too. Instead of saying "Squad 4 do blablabla" he'd just say "Squad Yellow do blablabla", and there would be no misunderstandings.

LiquidSnake · Post by **LiquidSnake** » 2007-01-05 20:18

Why not adding both ideas? (colored squads and colored squadmembers)

I'm 100% behind this suggestion

Randleman5102 · Post by **Randleman5102** » 2007-01-05 20:45

Great Idea. I'd love to see this in the mod.

Valtasar · Post by **Valtasar** » 2007-01-05 20:47

Why not adding both ideas? (colored squads and colored squadmembers)

To confusing. Maybe SM numbers/letters and squads colors or vice versa.

blud · Post by **blud** » 2007-01-05 20:59

Colored squads I don't really care about. But the idea of a white colored Pointman with a big (PM) circle over his head instead of (1) sounds great to me.

.:iGi:. Eggenberg4Ever · Post by **.:iGi:. Eggenberg4Ever** » 2007-01-05 21:07

Different squad/different colours ok.
Different coloured members within a squad will be too confusing (do all the other squads & their individual colours show on the map at the same time?.... confusionville!).