commander drawing on the minimap

I heard this being discussed in the VIPER sever earlier today, allow the commander to draw on the map and have what he drew appear on all the mini-maps of the team. The com can draw lines, place letters(A,B,C,... squads) and erase. Spectators don't see ether plans, to keep them from taking advantage of it. The main idea of this, is that the whole team knows what the com is planing and what to do.
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Theoretically, a good idea, but somehow I think someone will mess it up.

 

then I can scrawl GET REFS on the mini map

this is a great idea

 

When very drunk I would definitely draw a penis on it.

 

Like this?

 

this is an awesome idea

 

LOL, I knew that might be a problem, but, still its useful for the team.
also, an alternative to this might be adding waypoints to the "move here" command.

 

I knew somebody had that picture, and was just waiting for it to get posted haha

 

I had an alternative option: beacons, and you could write a message on the beacons.

 

Even how many penises I would write.. I still want it.

 

I like every suggestion, which will help the commander to push his teammates to a custom location.
But I also think, that this will be ignored by players.

 

twelve big thumbs up. this is in savage 2, i want to see it done here. there are no real cons.

 

Reminds me of Spring, in that game it is mostly used for drawing penises, but arrows too, sometimes.

I think that waypoints are a much better idea.

 

There is one glaring problem I've just realized.

Few people actually bother looking at the full-sized map normally.

 

now I'm thanking about it, waypoints would be better, less chance someone would draw something whoring on the map...
but if you do go with waypoints than make it so that a player would be only enter a certain radius of the point(50 feet or something) before he can go to the next point. at the moment a player has to be directly on the "move here" command or cancel the command when near it to make it disappear.

 

+1 to necromancy

I would still love to see this implemented

 

Well "someone will mess it up" doesn't mean much , I mean everyone will mess with whatever idea we'll have , there will always be someone to fuck it up.

Yeah its a great idea. The problem is that the mini-map is really too small to read whatever the comm might write unless we use the full size map , which would probably not be used by everyone . But still if you can do arrows etc... it's fine!

Great idea , DO IT!

 

I think the minimap would be fine, just scale the drawings down and use simple orders

Circle the base you want people to spawn in and draw an arrow to where you want them to attack, maybe even just a simple X on the enemy base

 

This is a great idea. How could drawing "move here" peni not promote teamwork and situational awareness.

 

I like it. Now we all can be artsy.