Macro/Crew interaction (No vocal)

[teweedo]

Hello guys,

So, I was thinking the other day, we have a couple of tools to communicate with our crew and communication is key in this game. However, what I would love to see is some improvements in that regard.

Sometimes, in the heath of the battle it's neither convenient to type nor to speak quick enough to give multiple orders/advices/informations and it can easily be missed by the crew. Even through vocal some people are not able to hear you or don't pay attention and perhaps don't even speak the same language as yourself.

This bring me to the point : Why not add a couple of new communication features ? Such as :

- Visual order/information, typed by the captain, appearing in the middle of the screen (could be enabled by default and disabled through an option), it could be colour changed as well.

- Macro. Yes, a simple macro system to provide short informations/orders that you could binds to any key.


 I played for a long time an online crew based space game (which does not exist anymore) where I had to deal with 4 gunners and 2 engineers and this game had a similar feature which helped so much despite the fact that I had also a mic/vocal.

It would fit perfectly for a game like GOIO.

Thoughts gentlemen? Ideas?

[N-Sunderland]

Wonderful idea. I've always thought that visual indicators would be an amazing way to help communicate across language barriers. Something like Portal 2's co-op indicator system would be really helpful.

[Spidersuit]

+1
I was thinking a system like the fast-and-simple commands that are in Battlefield 3 or Dota 2 where u press a button and a list of commands pop ups and u select them with the mouse...
I was thinking about a list of simple commands like:
Behind us!
Above us!
Below us!
In front of us!
Right side!
Left side!
...and so on... and this commands appears to all the crew/team on the top of the screen

[-Muse- Cullen]

Agreed. Being able to shout out basic commands would be very useful to captains that rely on typing info.

[teweedo]

I like those suggestions, I think also simple text appearing on the top of the screen like a warning would be a good start, then as you guys suggest, something more advanced like portal/dota etc could be added along the road.