First of all, change this marker:
to this:
Now it’s very imprecise and the tip on the bottom doesn’t make any sense.
Main topic:
Add option to place marker to request some kind of support from allies, for example:
On the map you can see “artylery request marker”. Any ally that orders his arty in the area of the red circle (it wouldn’t be visible, it’s only for demonsration purposes) will get 200xp for support, an assist and of course points for kills if he will get any. Person requesting support gains assists for every kill arty guy makes.
To prevent spaming requests, there will be a timer between requests (shared for all your requests). It’s not shared with other players. There is no limit on how many requests can be active at the moment.
To limit “troll requests” arty guy will get 200xp if he hits the zone, it doesn’t matter if he kills anybody. If you play in a party, your party members won’t get those guaranteed 200xp to prevent farming. They may get 100xp (or less) or nothing, I’m not sure yet.
Those requests will be visible only if you can fulfill them. So if you don’t have radio in your squad you won’t see arty request.
Posible requests:
- arty
- CAS
- mortar (you would get guaranteed xp after shooting 3 shells to the zone)
- maybe request to fortify area or build an ammo box, but it has potential to be abused
- any other supportive action you may think about
It’s a lot of work for relatively limited use so maybe we will have to wait for more support options to make it worth spending development time on it.
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Could add a more team play atmosphere
I like the idea, but most people can barely use the current marking system and you want them to have more complexity? Good luck sir, I admire your optimism.
I can’t win with idiots but at least I can reward players that use brain.
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Good idea. But good teams don’t need this to win and bad team would lose even with this. So. But sill believe this would a good implement.
Good idea but I don’t really care, if my marked position gets blasted by artillery, CAS or mortars. Just kill them!
I’d rather have markers for different things. Not just to request assistence, but also to give information to other players. Like pointing out where a sniper or gunner is hiding. Enemy rally points. Minefields (if players actually made them). Where it is safe to advance. Stuff like that.
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I would absolutely use this system, however, so there’s that. Also, need to be able to place markers using our map.
Like the idea, however, I don’t see why differentiate between arty, CAS or mortar. Just “rain hell here”.
Markers like
- Enemy MG
- Enemy sniper
- Enemy rally point
- Pay attention (for potentially dangerous areas you want your teammates to keep an eye on)
- Build ammo box (automatically disappears if there’s at least one non-empty ammo-box in the viscinity)
- Build rally point (again, disappears if there already is one)
- Build an MG nest
- Erase DNA (Either with arty, mortars or CAS)
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When you describe it like that it sounds more and more like commander role but available to everybody.
I like that.
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Yeah, I mean, anyway most people will not bother putting those markers down, so it will naturally self-regulate, I don’t think we’ll have a marker spam problem.
But, of course, at this point this is merely an assumption, I may be terribly wrong here 
When I fly the CAS markers would be helpful for me cause I am clueless where to drop the bombs I try to figure out which side the enemy is on according to where I am and its pathetic this is why I seldom fly … I did drop some bombs recently and got 7 kills or so on a few runs I felt silly being able to do that …
But since I’m playing Berlin as the Germans I could care less though I like the sound of the STUKA too
