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I'm nothing more than a Novice Medic, but I try to do my part, when grouped, to heal an injured (or even an incapped) comrade during battle as much as the next guy, so I was thinking that these two ideas would help in that regards. I wanted to post them here though, to get some of your opinions on these ideas.

Please comment. If the ideas get support, then I'll take the ideas to the Development Board, where hopefully everyone can really support them and get them implemented. Thanks.

1) First, and more useful of the two ideas (I think), would be the numbering of group mates. When you form a group, you can currently quick-select one of your group mates by pressing CTRL+# (where the number symbol is replaced by the position their name is placed in order from the top to the bottom of the upper left portion of your screen). There is already a program mechanic in place that knows that when you push CTRL+1 it selects you, when you push CTRL+2 it selects the group leader (who is ALWAYS in the number 2 position), etc..all the way down the list, so it shouldn't be much more code necessary to simply have that numbered position shown just before the individual's name (like the "(L)" is shown now for the group leader). This would make selecting and healing group members a little quicker, I think. In groups of three or four, it's not as important, but when you are in groups of 18-20, it gets a bit difficult sometimes to target that many guys running around everywhere, and you can't count from the bottom up to get to person #13 or #14 unless you are certain of whether you have 18, 19, or 20 people from the beginning.

2) Secondly, in order to find incapped group members more quickly, how about the dot on the radar screen flashing or becoming a bit larger or a different color or something, because the blue box around a selected individualisn't so easy to see sometimes when there's a crowd around. Also, if a group member is selected, perhaps their name text (in the main screen) should also flash or something, because once the group is clumped up, it's hard to know where the individual is sometimes.

Both of these ideas would probably help doctors raise the dead as well.

Just a couple of thoughts to make combat healing a little quicker, what do you guys think?

Malborka

Tarquinas Server

2) target him in the group window and follow the darkblue arrow

Your first suggestion is not bad but you know ... after some time it's a reflex. Look at the HAM, quick evaluation of the position (without concentrate on a little number next to the name) and your fingers act by themselves. You don't even have to look at your keyboard .