give marines ingame maps

[misto]

Summary (a quick, 2-3 sentence summary): give marines ingame maps. they must have at least photos of the surface level taken from orbit. furthermore, wy would probably happily furnish them with colony blueprints. you can leave any alien caves out of the maps as they would be undiscovered intel

Benefits (How this will benefit the server and game as a whole): youve been switching maps a bit lately and its easy to get rusty, and also new players dont know the way around at all. this will aid in planning, co-operation, finding your way around, etc.

Details (Description of how you think this would work, the benefits, etc): put a big board in the briefing room that can be examined to give you a map of the area while you listen to the briefing. put a few "you are here" type guidemaps around the alamayer. give at least squad leaders and commanders if not every marine a map of the op area to consult

Implementation (Optional, if you have an idea how to implement it): i noticed you have a fairly nice photograph system that brings up an image when you examine the photograph. perhaps you could use this to provide these maps without too much fuss.

[DreadPirateFury]

Definitely has more than a few uses, I just had a round with Bravo Squad Leader wandering around for a bit completely lost, and with everyone yelling at him to get to a place in the map he was getting stressed out enough that he wasn't thinking straight and almost got killed. It's rough cause marines drop on the ground and end up in a "who do I follow" situation, usually one guy has the map open in a wiki who can save the day but sometimes that's not the case. In game maps would do a lot. Maybe they're already implemented and I haven't seen them, because under Squad Leader on the Wiki it says that there are maps of the AO on the Almayer.

[TheMaskedMan2]

There used to be maps of LV on the Sulaco, might be nice to get something like that back.

+1

[Kwin_Original]

+1 I remember the LV maps at Sulaco Briefing and Bridge, would be nice, if the Almayer got them (and for the other planets) too.