Suggestion: Public Ping

This would be a handy feature for multi-team games and FFAs.

We can already public chat, so why not public ping?

This way you can say something like, "Blue is building Halleys right here" and ping it. Rather than, "Blue is building Halleys on the ___ moon over by that large metal clump"

You must be inspired by my insanely annoying habit of telling other people in Teamspeak what other players are building to the minute details at crucial moments of a FFA (while playing, ofc).

It was actually inspired by what I was writing in this comment: https://forums.uberent.com/threads/...erely-necro-master-monte93.62552/#post-971349

I always just go "He's building a halley over there!"... everyone's like "Over where, ping it!", then "right there, come on"

Ahh.. assuming people see exactly what you see.

I have this weird idea for a mod that notifies everyone of your economy state...

"I'm out of power."
"I'm not out of power."
"I'm out of power."
"I'm not out of power."
"I'm out of power."
"I'm not out of power."
"I'm out of power."
"I'm out of metal."
"I'm not out of power."

Does the chat have an overflow restriction?

well i know the last thing i would want to have happen is chat spam when the power fluctuates rapidly...

no pls. the spam of ping when a player is mad..... just imagine omg.

All there needs to be to counter that is a cooldown timer and the option to vote kick people.

Maybe we could let the ping show what you see inside its circumfernce since no one will always have the same scouting as you that way you won't give too much info to everyone in an FFA.

Then I could just ping the entire enemy base and give away everything.

Which is why you suggested a cool down timer for pings, plus f they are going to be public pings it should be an option when making lobbies since no one will like others exposing your plans(and since we are talking FFAs maybe only allow it for alliances?)

There's still a difference between an indicator pointing towards a spot on the map and providing everyone free intel on exactly what all is there.

Ofcourse the intel will disappear after the Ping goes away, it just removes the need to type out what you are trying to ping to everyone

Tattle-tail!

I personally believe that this idea would be terrible. We don't need ppl knowing everything that's what radar is for

It's a ping. It's just pointing to a location. No intel other than an arrow pointing to a location.

People already do this in chat.

The only way to get rid of this would be to disable public chat.

Maybe they should get the ally ping working too

Last I saw, it was working.

Are you having issues?

Nobody can see them. Not very useful ATM.

Still not sure what you're talking about.

Earlier today I saw allies pinging and they could see each others pings.