Marine Text Change

[Mycroft Macarthur]

Suggestion Title: Marine Text Change

Summary (a quick, 2-3 sentence summary): modifying ingame text to make it easier to differentiate the commander and squad leaders

Benefits (How this will benefit the server and game as a whole): by making it easier to determine who is in charge (and hopefully improve overall marine gameplay)

Details (Description of how you think this would work, the benefits, etc): while playing alien recently i noticed that whenever speaking through the hivemind, the queen has modified text, the font size is notably increased and the text color is purple, after i had died that round i commented about it to some other aliens when i realised that if the same was done for marines maybe we could improve both rp and teamwork, essentially the squad leaders and the commander would have modified radios, squad leaders when speaking over radio channels would have their text bolded, this way whenever speaking over the radio it would be easier to tell what the squad leader is saying apart from the rest of the squad (and this would immediately clue us all in as to who the squad leader IS), even when not speaking in the squad specific chat (regular sulaco radio channels as opposed to our squad specific channel) the text would remain bolded, informing everyone that the person speaking is the leader of A squad, commanders would get a similar thing but their text would ALSO have an increased font size (and perhaps a distinct color as well).

half the time i have no fucking clue who the squad leader is and i bet alot of others are in the same boat, literally ANYONE can claim as such but that doesnt make it true, you have to be in the same room as someone to examine their ID and in the thick of battle or while setting up the engines who has time to examine each and every one of their co workers? even at the start of the game i have no idea who the SL is most of the time and they never actually bother to bring it up (the commander seems to be the only one who mentions anything, and even then only rarely), if you happen to be a LATE joiner its even WORSE, assuming the squad leaders or commander are even still alive the only way you can tell them apart is to directly look at them. i might be walking the hall then someone screams at me and all i can think is, "who the fuck is this asshole?"

ahh, but there is one caveat, REGULAR chat (just talking without using radios) would remain unmodified, random survivors dont need to know which of the marines are in charge of the squad unless the SL in question specifically brings it up and the aliens sure as hell dont need to know, granted the aliens may be able to learn that and could take advantage of it but they SHOULDNT figure it out due to the fact that the marines in question are wearing radios (i doubt the aliens even know what a radio IS ic'ly), sure they (both aliens AND survivors) can examine you and check your ID to determine that, but they can do that ALREADY so its not like there'd be a big change

Implementation (Optional, if you have an idea how to implement it): no real thoughts here but i cant imagine it'd be much more different then it was for when you changed the queen's text.

[Sailor Dave]

Sounds good. I think we can get this in. I'll take a look at it.

[razerwing]

If you could do this, it would benefit people greatly. Best of luck to you Dave.

[UnknownMurder]

You can tell whom is the Commander by looking at their icons on radio.... Buuuutt... Eh. People are stupid.

+1

[Mycroft Macarthur]

maybe but that doesnt apply to the squad leader, every little bit can help

[Sailor Dave]

Something like this, then? Do you think the bolding for squad leader is necessary, or is the lead tag enough? Commanders will probably have bolded text either way.

[razerwing]

The bolding is necessary, as well as the Lead tag.

[LordLoko]

We could have job names on the radio just like on that custom NTSL script.

[UnknownMurder]

How about change the fonts to a different color while it is bold?

[apophis775]

Done.