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DiablosMajora
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Posted - 2015.07.10 00:17:00 -
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In warfare, information can be the deciding factor between victory & defeat as well as living and dying. Being able to successfully determine what your enemy is sporting is always key BUT knowing what your side is also sporting plays an indirect, albeit extremely important, subconscious role in how you perform on the battlefield. Currently, players can only tell what both sides are running by direct line of sight, and being close enough to the enemy to decipher a suit size, suit color scheme, and weapons usually means you're in a combat situation anyways. Wouldn't it make your life so much simpler if there was a way to determine these qualitative factors a little easier?
Send In the Icons!
My suggestion is to take a page out of the EVE book and update the interface to reflect the size or kind of suit a hostile is wearing IF and ONLY IF: 1) you are in passive scanning range and can be detected as such, or 2) you are in line of sight. Blueberries, on the other hand, should share the icon information about their suit size/role at the same distances that we can currently see blue chevrons. Here's an example of EVE's more recent icons for ships, clearly differentiating between Capsules all the way up to Titan. Such a change would allow players to pick and choose their targets both easier and more tactfully, and better identify opportunities with teammates.
"But Diablo! What about Active Scanners!?"
In my opinion, I think that Active Scanners should still reflect the location of enemies as they do now, but NOT determine the kind of suit that a hostile is wearing and thus still only showing the simple red chevron.
Some feedback would be appreciated, and here is a crude example of something I just came up with.
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DiablosMajora
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Posted - 2015.07.10 00:36:00 -
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Terry Webber wrote:Icons could be very useful and the examples you gave would be perfect for identification. Speaking of the examples, I think the assault icon with a cross shape would be a great representation of the logistics suit.
Updated! :D
This is also up on the Trello board, so feel free to upvote/like it.
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DiablosMajora
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Posted - 2015.07.10 08:42:00 -
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Terry Webber wrote:DiablosMajora wrote:Terry Webber wrote:Icons could be very useful and the examples you gave would be perfect for identification. Speaking of the examples, I think the assault icon with a cross shape would be a great representation of the logistics suit. Updated! :D This is also up on the Trello board, so feel free to upvote/like it. Thanks for considering my suggestion but I was thinking more in the middle of the icon.
I'll leave the actual art to actual artists 
Also, updated once more for Basic suits and because I can't properly spell "Unknown"
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DiablosMajora
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Posted - 2015.07.10 10:35:00 -
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Bump for those EST morning folks!
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DiablosMajora
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Posted - 2015.07.10 12:53:00 -
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Bump once more, with flair!
Here's hoping for a blue tag
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DiablosMajora
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Posted - 2015.07.10 17:15:00 -
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CCP Rattati wrote:This is cool. During the scanning overhaul, we talked about having signature profile being demonstrated as bigger circles, so a 8 dB scout would be a tiny dot, and a sentinel, much bigger. Effectively allowing damped heavies to disguise as assault, and so on.
Thanks for the nugget of info!
Definitely gives much more significance to passive dB and opens the door to some interesting EWAR possibilities.
With regards to some of the concerns voiced in the thread about my suggestion, I do think that having more informative chevrons for at least you and your teammates would benefit gameplay greatly. Redberry chevrons could obviously be debated and discussed.
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DiablosMajora
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Posted - 2015.07.10 22:43:00 -
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Wow, topic hasn't even been up for 24 hours and there's over 450 views 
On another note, more feedback on the OP?
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DiablosMajora
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Posted - 2015.07.14 16:37:00 -
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How about Medium and Heavy frames that get a bonus to dampeners?
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DiablosMajora
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Posted - 2015.07.14 16:47:00 -
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Sylwester Dziewiecki wrote:DiablosMajora wrote:How about Medium and Heavy frames that get a bonus to dampeners? Right now you can easily build Assault that Scouts can not see on they passive scan, and that have 100% more HP and you want M/H class that do it even better? 
Yes, yes I do!
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DiablosMajora
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Posted - 2015.07.14 16:55:00 -
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Sylwester Dziewiecki wrote:DiablosMajora wrote:Sylwester Dziewiecki wrote:DiablosMajora wrote:How about Medium and Heavy frames that get a bonus to dampeners? Right now you can easily build Assault that Scouts can not see on they passive scan, and that have 100% more HP and you want M/H class that do it even better? Yes, yes I do! So young, so naive.
I would in fact love to see passively damped M/H, throw on a cloak for extra lulz (without fitting bonus on cloak).
Makes it much harder to fit Armor mods and sets you up for a black-ops kind of role.
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