Mark players for easy following

I played with a few friends and I often thought it would be nice if you could mark some teammates (via tab, like votekicking) that would put a small arrow/marker on top of them for you. That way you could create "squads" for more organized gameplay.

This is more meant for public servers where there are a lot of random players and you cannot find your friends when playing over ventrilo and such.

 

If they're ever gonna implement a friends system into KAG, I believe that there should be a little yellow arrow indicating your friends. For now, this would be nice (even though I have no friends who play KAG)

 

what if your clan members have a special color on the minimap?

 

And how would you do that? There is no such thing as ingame groups just yet.

 

I have no idea if it's possible or not, I figured that the client could check every user's clantag, and if it's a match the minimap icon would be different


Then again I know nothing about how that would work so take it with a grain of salt

 

This is a nice idea. Alternatively, add an option to show miniature avatars over player's heads.

 

I came here to suggest this very thing. Have a like.

Large public servers are a blast, but it would be nice to be able to see at a glance whether I'm being supported by trusted friends or nameless scrubs.

 

This is more elegant than having all the player's names floating above their heads. Would very much like to see this implemented.

 

i can mod this with clan tags, if there is a demand, and server owners who are willing to use it

 

Clan tags would be nice

 

Interesting idea. My suggestion would be to have all of your friends' names be permanently visible, perhaps in a different color as well. This way you're always aware of friends nearby and by hovering the mouse cursor over a non-friend you can still read their name but they appear in a different color.

 

im starting to work on this. expect release soon

--- Double Post Merged, Sep 18, 2013, Original Post Date: Sep 17, 2013 ---

it's done now, but one feature does not work, because a function in KAG scripting interface that tells the clan tag of a player is bugged or unfinished.

features:
- marking players by pressing "V" after hovering them with your cursor. marked players have silver arrow over their head
- automatic marking of players with your clantag. those have golden arrows. not yet operational
- showing marked players on minimap

official release when devs finish the function required by feature 2, and it is properly tested

 

Is this client-side? Where do I put it?

 

its server-side, but works in single-player. you put it in kag/Mods/PartyIndicator folder and then you add PartyIndicator line in kag/mods.cfg file

 

You are awesome. I hope server owners are going to use this. (Unless you can figure out how to make this client side)

 

Suggested for certainly the 84515th time.
But it's still a good idea and easy to implant.

 

Clan tags exist, but they don't really do much.
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I personally think this could easily be implemented from steam- People on your steam friends can already invite you to a server they're playing on, and you can hit a button to join their game if the game itself allows the function.


Take the steam friends list, and put it in KAG. Like dota 2 did

 

I feel like with the steam release it will be a lot easier to talk between friends and figure out who is who and where they are.

As for right now, just have you and your friend put on a rarely used hat theres some that are really never used. That will make it easier to tell if you know that person or not.

Still think this is a good idea.

 

Exactly! If the name would then just be highlighted with Green at all times, it would make it so much easier! (And too would the marked player be a green dot on the map.) I really hope they add something like this!