Development Cycle Archive

Wound icons should appear only to medics.

Only Squad Leaders should be able to make icons appear above a target - SLs should have big advantages as group leader and this would definitely be one.

I like the idea of the icons. I would suggest that they would be configurable by the user to allow for following to view:

- Anyone

- Faction Only

- Group Only

- Guild Only

The 'mark-target' is long overdue. I think this should be made available to all group leaders, as should the SL message command.

I think its important that you seriously consider the offensive marking that squad leaders have requested, and that some thought goes into making that worthwhile. That being said, what you're talking about here seems like it would be best accomplished as a fourth self-determined status, like LFG or HELPER. allow medics to /who WOUNDED or something. that way it could be on/off as the player likes, and really I dont see how it would be that benefitial inside a group...not nearly as good as the suggestion to actually list the member number next to names in the group list so they could be easily selectable.

someone suggested you could pick out people to kill easier with this. Good point!

I say it only works on fellow faction members, AND/OR only people with novice medic can use it.

About the medic icon, this would make the game too easy. The fun part about having a character is to not only make it hard for people to reach the master level, but also to make it hard to play the profession the right way. Of you do that, there will be no difference between a good medic and a bad medic. The good medic will be able to see in real time who needs healing and who doesn't. This is not felt as rewarding in my opinion.

But I love the idea to give squad leaders the possibility to put an icon on top of a target. When you're in front a bunch of banthas and the leader says "attack bantha", it doesn't help much. Anyways, squad leader needs some more functions and tweaking, this would be a great feature to have them wait for more improvements.

For other people, well they have the point social that is the best someone untrained in leadership could do. So I believe squad leaders should be the only ones to have them.

A couple of things about a target icon. Yes please make it SL only As to where to put it, novice SL could do it, or maybe Strategy I. Also important is to make it stick to whatever target was chosen. Don't have it follow the SL around if he switches targets. As a leader I have often got my team shooting one target, and then I'll check the status of other targets, maybe even shooting them too (warning shot, bleeds, etc) and I want to know that my team is staying with the original target. Make it easy for the team to select your "painted" target too, I was thinking that an icon could appear in your entry in the group box that they could click to select the "painted" target (as well as a /selectpaintedtarget command or something)

Please give SL's this

Thinking of it from a RolePlay point of view, this is a way to say that you see someone is really bleeding a lot ( as in game there is no such visual difference ), so I think you should configure it the way it should work in this case :
Everybody is able to see it when it is close enough, you don't expect someone 100m meter from target to see someone a little injured, BUT even your enemies will see if your a full of blood and still standing...
The range from which you can see this icons should increase with the severity of your wounds.

Now for all people that don't take care of this, this should be an option, as an artisan in middle of a fight between rebel and imperial, I don't want to see all these icons popup, it is already enough laggy for me.

I saw someone else mention this...

Make bruising graphics for damage, blood coverage/abrasions for wounds, and blood trails for bleeders.

It could be implemented like another clothing layer, to add to graphical detail...with varying degrees (say 3 gradiants, 10%, 50%, 90%). 10% being minor nicks and scratches, 50% being badly bruised, and 90% being movie-classic battered housewife.

Also, stance would change, as was said before, with an actual hit to movement rate at the 90% point. The stance is already in the game, I noticed it when Im being hit by lag and I try to stand...the legs go up, but the body stays hunched like Im holding in a gut wound for several seconds until the lag straightens out.

I have another related idea. I would like to see Rank Icon's for GCW ranks next to players name (Above head). This would be an optional on/off setting.

I think this idea was proposed in another thread and Devs said they were going to implement it as a new kind of title I think

I’m not a medic so I used to assume that the diagnostics line gave medics the ability to “diagnose” anyway. I think that would be a great place for the ability at any rate.

As far as the target icon for group, I think that if you beefed up the /assist command a bit that would help a LOT. It has a lot of potential, but I think nobody knows about it.

But the icon idea is good. I just think it should be for squad leaders. I’m not a squad leader either by the way.

Like so many ideas, great in theory, wide open to grief in practice.

Why can't you display someone's faction rank over their head, then, if they so choose?

How hard can that be if a dev found out how to put a wounded icon on by "tooling around"?