Suggestion: server list game 'pins'

I was discussing metal planets and thought of a way to inform players of traits of a game directly from the sever list, thought it might be worth bringing it up.

Perhaps on the server list different games could have small 'pins' beside them to indicate different features of the game and map (e.g a metal planet icon to indicate the map has a metal planet in it). This could allow people to easily gauge whether or not they may want to join a certain game without having to go into a lobby. Seeing as a large percentage of the maps will be procedurally generated players won't always be able to rely on map names or map previews to know what type of game they might be joining into.

These could be consistent throughout various menus as well, such as appearing in a pop-up box when you hover your cursor over a system in the Galactic War.

Here's a little mockup of some pins (which would obviously be scaled down and only trigger titles to appear when you hover your cursor above them):

I don't see why not, also there should be an advanced version you can use with a popup box that will show a map of where everything in the solar system is and icons showing where you may spawn. That way I don't wonder if when I see a pin for metal maps and gas giants I can see just how many and where.

Yeah certainly, I can't imagine an RTS game without mini-map previews. PA is interesting because it'll have to be a top-down view of the solar system, perhaps you can highlight each body and it'll provide a bit of information about it.

I think the problem for this comes in when you need to figure out what gets pins and how they'll be displayed by the UI.

Mike

Ummm... Metal/Regular/water/gas/moons/asteroids, and then badge for trending towards small to large amounts of planets, as well as size of planets?