Team mate fov outlines

I did a couple quick searches and haven't noticed any mention of this, but will there be any implementation for team matches of your team mates fov? With no minimap I would hope to see it as an on/off option, with benefits coming mostly once multimonitor support comes online. I understand this is a low priority low gain idea but interesting nonetheless.

What I mean is a small outline showing what exactly your team mates are focused on. This would greatly benefit public team games for people who aren't in clans or don't have access to teamspeak. This way you could more evenly distribute your attention over the entire theater of war.

I don't even think this would run in to issues as far as multimonitor support as long as it was implemented well enough. Thoughts?

ಠ_ಠ such a good idea.

I can't remember the game, but there is at least one that shows the cursor position of every team member. I would love to get something like that in PA. I wonder if we could use PA stats to capture cursor location...

Very nifty idea.

Would be helpful for Army and Alliance matches – but mainly Army matches.

I'd rather see pings introduced first though.

Anyone remember the old TA Recorder? I want that too

**Edit
Specifically the whiteboard and as brian mentioned, pings.

I'm bumping this thread.
We need support for a mod that would look quite similar to the old http://www.clan-sy.com/ TARecorder.

I'm talking

• Whiteboard w/ team colors (Hold alt and left click to draw for example)
• non-ping point messages (Alt+Middle mouse)
• Positive and Negative Team Pings (Alt+RightClick and Alt+RightClickhold respectively?)

I think this is something that could be incorporated in to pastats maybe? Can we as a community make this happen? It would probably be a nice little relief to the devs and a good step forward in communication as far as team matches go.

TA Spring and ZeroK kinda do this, right?

Please no, PAStats is already a kitchen sink.

Big problem is 2d-3d mapping. Only way I could see this working would be a server mod with create-unit cheat enabled making mine-like units visible only to your team.

if it was something that actually painted over the land texture I think you could get around that

TA:Spring shows the location of each players mouse as a small circle in their team colour. It would need a slight alteration to account for shared armies but I'm sure it could be done...

I know one of the games was the xbox 360 game Halo Wars, however it showed up on the minimap

Seeing the inputs of your teammates would be very useful.

The question would be "how do we implement it?" Basically, we need people to provide suggestions where the dev team can pull out of the pool.

You know how you can see your commands when you hold shift? Alt+shift = see team commands or something.

Would be nice, but I'd like to also see where they are actually looking as well

Show most recent command button/hotkey?

For bigger games an indication in the top-right drop-down list of what planets your teammates are looking at would be nice. On planet level I imagine maybe a transparent colored square could show what view your teammates currently has. It could be displayed upon holding shift, or alt-shift.

That wouldn't accomplish what i was talking about

It would come pretty close. Would you prefer giant floating eyeballs?

I'd prefer seeing their cursor,