An update for the overwatch consoles

[kael224]

Summary (a quick, 2-3 sentence summary):The idea is to give an update to the overwatch console and to create one more item.

Benefits (How this will benefit the server and game as a whole):This will help a LOT in the bridge to command the marines down in planetside and make them more eficientes.

Details (Description of how you think this would work, the benefits, etc):The idea is to have a map of the planet in the console and show in real time where is each marine (with dots and 1 color for each squad) and if it possible to show up the name of the marine when we place the mouse over the dot or/and to give each dot an unique img like a wrench for engis a bullet for regular marines etc.. , add one more cam to the spc , medic and engineer since there is not always a SL in each squad.

The new item idea is to have the same map as the overwatch console have but in a shape of a virtual map or a pair of augmented reality glasses for the SLs so they can coordinate each other , set some destinations , marks or even allow them to make areas and set them to "danger" zone or "objective 1 ".

[Joe4444]

-1.this would cause WAY too much lag because the server has got to track every single marine player on a 70+ server.

[kael224]

This kind of things already exists in paradise and in TG , they don't make any lag as far i know.

[Abbysynth]

It's a good idea, but we use much older and less optimized code than Paradise or TG and the more someone checks the console, the more lag it would generate. I doubt anyone on Paradise has to constantly keep tabs on 100+ people, much less 4 doing it at once.

[Sailor Dave]

This kind of things already exists in paradise and in TG , they don't make any lag as far i know.

What thing is this, exactly? I haven't seen this before.

[wastedfate]

-1.this would cause WAY too much lag because the server has got to track every single marine player on a 70+ server.

It already does. Suit sensors already do this.

What thing is this, exactly? I haven't seen this before.

On many other codebases the station map is displayed at crew monitors. And a dot for each person with suit sensors activated is overlayed on top of that map using the cartesian coordinates provided by the suit sensors. It seems like a lot of work, and it seems processing intensive I know, but it really isn't. It's just a fancy combination between the crew monitor and the map.

[Joe4444]

It already does. Suit sensors already do this.

but tracking it every second and moving it? suit sensors at best tell you where a person is in a general area(not that it helps because half the map on LV is called W-Y compound).The suggestion suggests it tracks all the marine players on the south side of the river every second and updating it onto 4 overwatch consoles at most.

[Gorglol]

Well it hardly has to update every server tick. I don't know how server-intensive it is to loop over a list of all players, I would guess not very since it seems like something you'd want to do now and then. I don't know the inner workings of BYOND, but I don't see why all 4 consoles couldn't share the same information.

[wastedfate]

but tracking it every second and moving it? suit sensors at best tell you where a person is in a general area(not that it helps because half the map on LV is called W-Y compound).The suggestion suggests it tracks all the marine players on the south side of the river every second and updating it onto 4 overwatch consoles at most.

You're really just overlaying the suit sensor coordinates onto a map. The overwatch consoles already track these coordinates to tell you how far each marine is from their SL.

[Harakoni warhawk]

+1, it's basically a Crew Monitoring console added to the Overwatch consoles.
It's make keeping track of Marines easier.

[kael224]

Well to be honest more than fancy i belive is going to be more than usefull

[XenonDragneel]

+1, I would love this

[Enceri]

maybe at the least, add where the SL is in real time on a map of the LV (?)

[Jalleo]

actually it would be less laggy if you make a list for people with squad IDs e.g add this person to list when putting on a delta marine ID or Bravo ETC ETC. It shouldn't be as laggy and the crew monitor might already have this code on your codebase but disabled.

[Sneakyr]

Neutral leaning towards -1. Crew monitoring console does this.

[Rocco Ward]

I had this same idea a while back. And I agree with the coding, it shouldn't be that intensive on the CPU because the crew monitor already tracks the marines positions. +1

[Nightcaper]

+1 only if performance footprint is negligible.

[KingKire]

+1. Just have it update when a player clicks the "refresh" button. nobody needs a live feed, they just need the general gist of where everyone generally is on a map so they can coordinate the marine forces somehow.

[kael224]

Yeah we son't even need a live feed , but at last some landmarks for the SL so they can make something coordinated.

[Anticept]

The map on paradise updates every few seconds. Also, this isn't something that is intensive to do; the code already tracks locations of everyone, just overlay the coordinates on a map.