Author Topic: Just a little screenshot of a feature in development...  (Read 17541 times)

Anaris

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The Army Banners feature-in-development isn't particularly secret, so I thought I'd share a screenshot of how I, at least, intend it to be used:


Enjoy!

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Nice! will the attack recipients have the banner showing as well (close combat and archer fire)

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The ones without the icons are enemy units, thus you would not know exactly which units are assigned to which army.  I assume that is why there are no icons for them.

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No, every unit that is part of an army that has a banner will show one.  These are, after all, actually banners—you can see them flying above each unit.

The units you see without banners either are not in an army, or are in an army that hasn't yet set a banner.

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Here's a thought--what if it only showed for units that purchased the "banner" paraphernalia and are in an army?

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Now what egamma said I feel is more accurate.
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Though many units purchase multiple banners...

I think for the sake of sanity and simplicity, every unit should simply show a banner. :)

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Saw it from your IRC post (ps, you shouldn't just leave things like a cheater report on Stu lying around ;-) ), reminds me of how I made some of the first banners in MS paint.  Go go gadget blocks of doom!

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Is there anything preventing the use of the banners in the battlefield?  That's where I always assumed they would be.

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Is there anything preventing the use of the banners in the battlefield?  That's where I always assumed they would be.

I strongly support that. If we put them there, that's a lot of additional value.

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For alignment purposes, maybe a "blank" banner for the armies who haven't picked one and another for unassigned units could be set?

And I don't think it should follow if you buy banners at all, it would translate as a graphic representation of something we don't really care about. Better just have everyone's banner displayed.
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For alignment purposes, maybe a "blank" banner for the armies who haven't picked one and another for unassigned units could be set?

A "blank" transparent banner should be trivial at this point.  However, I've also been toying with the idea of a "realm banner" for militia and nobles who aren't in armies, settable by the Ruler, obviously.  I'm not sure about it, though.

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And I don't think it should follow if you buy banners at all, it would translate as a graphic representation of something we don't really care about. Better just have everyone's banner displayed.

Absolutely.  This is not a representation of any particular paraphernalia: it is an indication of what army you are in.  The design of the banner is fully IC; its display anywhere particular is, at best, only quasi-IC.
« Last Edit: September 30, 2013, 03:48:11 PM by Anaris »
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if you are doing banner for non-army/militia, then you might as well just stick 2 banners up for everyone.... realm flag for everyone.. and army flag for army members.

mainly for multi-realm battles.... though that does make things somewhat more realm-centric
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No, that doesn't follow at all.

The point would be to have a banner for militia, who otherwise could not have any.
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So wh would you want the enemy to know what troops are in what army? I like the idea, but I'd still prefer keeping that information away from the enemy's hands ...