mrantichrist Posted June 3, 2004 Share Posted June 3, 2004 Maybe this has been said before, its a very simple idea, but I used search and didn’t get anything similar, I was wondering if it would be possible to make it so when u used the map (not the minimap, the full city map in the pause screen) mta would display the players name next to his/her little box, this would be a huge convenience and cut down all of the "where are u!?" crap. Link to comment
Guardians Proper Posted June 3, 2004 Share Posted June 3, 2004 I'll be the first to say, it seems like a good idea... (I can't wait for the "It's really hard to do it" Critics...) Link to comment
Si|ent Posted June 3, 2004 Share Posted June 3, 2004 It has been discussed before, don't recall wether just in-team or actually on here too. It should be possible but it has a few issues, not least of which is you have to 'pause' to view it. Entering the menus when midgame isnt advisabe at the best of times, both for the cheating aspect if in the middle of a fight and the high chance of crashing afterwards. Other problems could be victimisation, i've witnessed certain skilled players repeatedly hunting down a single person, often a noob, and making thier life hell on the server. Being able to pinpoint someones location instantly in this way could make this worse. A way to avoid this could be having to voluntarily identify your blip. By this i mean player4 asks player6 where he is, player6 can at that point allow his name to be included with his blip on the map, This introduces the initial problem with pausing however. A better system that we have discussed would be a GPS like system, with this player6 asks player4 where he is, player4 ok's it and player6 then has an arrow in his minimap pointing towards player4's location. This would be a more complicated system in both coding and interface terms of course. (Note that we discuss a lot of things. Currently we aren't working on any system like the above. But these ideas may well appear at some point in development.) Link to comment
mrantichrist Posted June 4, 2004 Author Share Posted June 4, 2004 well thanks for looking Link to comment
JohnnyBlaze Posted June 4, 2004 Share Posted June 4, 2004 well if it was available for a team it would be very helpful in wars or things of that nature Link to comment
Prokopis Posted June 4, 2004 Share Posted June 4, 2004 In some future version you could just type /show playerID (or /locate, or /find, or something) and their blip on your radar would blink for a couple o' secs. If the player would be out of the game, just chattin or idlin, it simply wouldn't do anything. Link to comment
OpiuM. Posted June 4, 2004 Share Posted June 4, 2004 /me voted no in a stubby war, or even when people inteact, the words would intermingle with each other, and be hard to read Link to comment
Guardians Proper Posted June 4, 2004 Share Posted June 4, 2004 /me voted noin a stubby war, or even when people inteact, the words would intermingle with each other, and be hard to read What? Wasn't he talking about the big map showing names? Not the radar... Link to comment
orappa Posted June 4, 2004 Share Posted June 4, 2004 /me voted noin a stubby war, or even when people inteact, the words would intermingle with each other, and be hard to read What? Wasn't he talking about the big map showing names? Not the radar... That would still apply if there's a subby war and people are close together. Link to comment
Ransom Posted June 4, 2004 Share Posted June 4, 2004 Well if you're looking for a certain person... and you dont see them anywhere besides the big glob of people where you couldn't identify his name... its pretty obvious hes there, right? Link to comment
+FKU+VVolven Posted June 4, 2004 Share Posted June 4, 2004 /me voted noin a stubby war, or even when people inteact, the words would intermingle with each other, and be hard to read Simple, you look at the map for the person you want outside any clusters of people, if it's not there, they're in one of the groups. Link to comment
Si|ent Posted June 4, 2004 Share Posted June 4, 2004 Unless he hasn't spawned yet. Anyway, due to having to 'pause' to view it its unlikely to be implemented in the way suggested. Link to comment
Ransom Posted June 5, 2004 Share Posted June 5, 2004 I wish (and wonder) you could make the pause menu not make you immortal. That is, like other massive online shooters, you can pause, but you'll still die if you get shot. That would make ideas like this much more possible. Link to comment
mrantichrist Posted June 5, 2004 Author Share Posted June 5, 2004 I wish (and wonder) you could make the pause menu not make you immortal. That is, like other massive online shooters, you can pause, but you'll still die if you get shot. That would make ideas like this much more possible. lol another one of my ideas http://forum.mtavc.com/viewtopic.php?t=8355 Link to comment
Guardians Proper Posted June 5, 2004 Share Posted June 5, 2004 I would hardly consider it your idea... These sort of things get suggested every day by a different person, and the MTA Team has been aware of these ideas for longer than we can imagine... Link to comment
vass69 Posted June 5, 2004 Share Posted June 5, 2004 well it would be very useful for manhunt Link to comment
Si|ent Posted June 5, 2004 Share Posted June 5, 2004 Not taking damage when paused is just one of the many things we are stuck with due to the nature of mta. I.e. putting multiplayer into a game that wasnt intended to have it, without the advantage of the original source code. Manhunt would be ruined by it, its 'manhunt' not 'hey look everyone there he is lets kill him' Link to comment
vass69 Posted June 5, 2004 Share Posted June 5, 2004 Not taking damage when paused is just one of the many things we are stuck with due to the nature of mta. I.e. putting multiplayer into a game that wasnt intended to have it, without the advantage of the original source code.Manhunt would be ruined by it, its 'manhunt' not 'hey look everyone there he is lets kill him' lol ur right then i stick to the real manhunt, from rockstargames too lol Link to comment
Guardians Proper Posted June 5, 2004 Share Posted June 5, 2004 If Manhunt is a script, why couldn't the name tags just go away when the Manhunt script was enabled...? Link to comment
Si|ent Posted June 5, 2004 Share Posted June 5, 2004 They could. I was responding to whoever said the names would be good for manhunt. Link to comment
Guardians Proper Posted June 5, 2004 Share Posted June 5, 2004 They could. I was responding to whoever said the names would be good for manhunt. Oh, sorry. I didn't realize someone said that... Who would suggest that?!?! Link to comment
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