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Advanced Flare System for Minimap #1274

Open simonsan opened 4 years ago

simonsan commented 4 years ago

@HeavenlyChorus was proposing an addition to the Taunt/Flare System in SE discord that I like, hence I'm opening this issue, but feel free to add.

Clients could be given a feature to draw on the minimap and sent this drawing to their teammates where the drawing gets rendered on their minimap - as an advanced flare.

The drawings/symbols could be either painted live (custom) or be taken from a list (accessed via keyboard shortcuts). Premade symbols could be something like:

The drawing should be automatically dismissed after three seconds.

In addition to that there could be a few custom taunts that help to describe/interpret the drawing (e.g.): 110 - "I wall to here" 111 - "I go raid you defend at home" 112 - "quickwall this!"

heinezen commented 4 years ago

I think having an additional "bigger map" feature could help with that. Maybe the minimap could be displayed on the entire screen with the press of a button. This would make the things @HeavenlyChorus mentiones easier to draw.

simonsan commented 4 years ago

I think having an additional "bigger map" feature could help with that. Maybe the minimap could be displayed on the entire screen with the press of a button. This would make the things @HeavenlyChorus mentiones easier to draw.

Indeed, we also already have that in interface.md.