Put a players own turrets on thier mini-map, so they know where it is... (Yes, I have in fact forgot where my turret was before. On Escort when I had two and I was placing them all over the place and somewhere along the line I lost track of one. Make the health of buildings show-up for all players of that buildings team when the player looks at it. Like when you look at a team mate and it says there name, look at a building and see it's health. Engies aren't the only ones who benefit from being able to determine the health of a structure. Make Mini-map Arrows a bit smaller so it is easier to tell what is going on. Usually it just looks like a big gob of spinning colors when there is a melee going on. The notification in the top left corner about who is comm, only says who comm is when they are in overhead mode. It would be nice to know who is comm even if they are in the driver's seat... Since only one person can be in the comm at one time... Ticket Bleed Rate. Like the Resource Rate number next to the total resources, but for ticket bleed.
Nice suggestions, but I've got a comment on the mini-map arrows one: In previous versions the minimap arrow was rather small, people had trouble identifying themselves between all the other players.
I assume you were trying to find your turret because you wanted to recycle it? If so, the next version of Empires will feature remote recycling, at least the version currently in closed beta test has this feature. Building health: Personally I don't think that's absolutely necessary. Usually if I'm not an engineer, I only want to know whether it's will go down soon, and that's indicated by the smoke. Smaller mini-map icons: You can zoom in and out using the keys left of the backspace key (ß and ´ on my keyboard, but I have a German one). Of course this is not always useful, but it often helps. Comm notification: Are you sure? Because I could have sworn I saw my name in the upper left corner when I was just hopping in the CV to drive it to safety. But maybe that's just me. Ticket Bleed rate: Very good idea IMO.
About the com notification, maybe you thought that someone was commanding, when what he did was building something? Just to jump inside again.
Maybe I'm mistaken about that one. I thought I recalled driving the comm around and having it say "none." Well then I change my suggestion. This is a bit more complicated, but find some way to make it not say "none" when comm hops out quick to build... I just notice a lot of mic chatter in games when people don't think there is a comm because it says "none" and really there IS one.
Another plus to the building health meter idea is that after coding that in, it would be really easy to give engies an extra skill option of being able to do it with enemy buildings from a fair distance away... Maybe that should be a scout skill...
I think this is a bug, I get it every once in a while. Some times the com also disappear from the minimap, or appears empty, even tho its driving. Sucks when you miss a packet...
i think that the minimap icons should be really smaller. and the minimap itself bigger. you cant see sh°t whit the current one
the zooming do sh+t dude! the player and tank icons are way to big! also its just so awefull small.. this minimap.. ca 1cm bigger more whould be enough
Their NOT too big if you use zoom. The INTELLIGENT thing to do is zoom the minimap for the local area your in, and then bring up the big map when you need to see the whole battlefield.
