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How about a simple light on the front of the tank, that can be activated by a simple button? (Please don't tell me there already is one.) Sometimes someone I'm around will say something, and all I need to do is acknowlege them, not send a whole message - a light would work. It would also be a quick way to send a signal to someone across the board who was looking at you. The truly sad could even communicate in morse code.
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My true opinion:

This would be totally useless, why have a light, you can just quckly type "ok" or send something to someone with a PM?

Further, noone knows who the message is getting sent to, so you could "flash" the light at Tanner, but Win Xp would think it was for him, not to Tanner.

What is the point of typing in morse code? We can currently just send a PM or a team message, or a message to the admins, or use /say and send to everyone, surely this is alot easier then having a light that noone will exactly know what you are trying to do/say ?
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I thought it would be a fun little addition, but you're right, there are ways to do everything it would do already.
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Still... it might be useful for when you are in a night server and you cant
change the time...

you could see just as well... i think it would be fun... and it probably wont
take long to implament either... 2.0.7b1 is only around the corner you know
:)

Who knows...

I think it might be fun.. and if the devs wont do it... ill make a mod for bz that
will do it if i need to :)
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Alex135 wrote:Still... it might be useful for when you are in a night server and you cant
change the time...

you could see just as well... i think it would be fun... and it probably wont
take long to implament either... 2.0.7b1 is only around the corner you know
:)

Who knows...

I think it might be fun.. and if the devs wont do it... ill make a mod for bz that
will do it if i need to :)
/me loves being included in examples :D

I think trepan did something with a light a bit back.....

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There is going to be no 2.0.7, the next release will be 2.2.0
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Win Xp wrote:There is going to be no 2.0.7, the next release will be 2.2.0
Well.... thats even better!!!! :D anyway ... i cant wait... :P

Tanner, do you know what he did with the light?

do you think its just the lights on top of the tank that show you what way the
tank is facing?


LOL and im glad you like being included in examples :P ROFL... thats funny...
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Alex135 wrote:
Win Xp wrote:There is going to be no 2.0.7, the next release will be 2.2.0
Well.... thats even better!!!! :D anyway ... i cant wait... :P

Tanner, do you know what he did with the light?

do you think its just the lights on top of the tank that show you what way the
tank is facing?


LOL and im glad you like being included in examples :P ROFL... thats funny...
It was just a light in front of the tank that showed up on objects and other tanks. Looked nice. The topic I found which contained an image, the image is no longer hosted.

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Heres my thought:
It would be more annoying then helpfull. People would misuse it all the time and i agree with WinXP, just sending a simple message is easy and they can tell who you are talking to.
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Win Xp wrote:There is going to be no 2.0.7, the next release will be 2.2.0
Due to several major bugs, there will be a 2.0.8. It should come out rather quick, as there are no major new features planned for it.
kc8ukw wrote:The truly sad could even communicate in morse code.
Win Xp, that was a joke, not a real suggestion. Unless you are truly sad...

All of the current methods of notifying people require you to type things on the keyboard - not convenient if you want to alert someone that they are going to get sniped :wink:
What I would like would be the ability to aim at a teammate (teammate only) and right-click (identify/lock/whatever flag dictates) two times to send a notice to them. It would appear as a PM, which could be configurable in the client or maybe even the server. Because you can't identify a person when you are in normal play, PM'ing them dosen't work if you see the tank, but don't know who is driving it.

Modifying this a bit:
I would like that if you right-click a tank twice, the message prompt comes up pre-targeted to that tank. That would be indefinitely useful.
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TD-Linux wrote: Win Xp, that was a joke, not a real suggestion. Unless you are truly sad...
I am truly sad....have you seen my posts/day count...that is truly sad...
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