Marker on the map?

[Nighthawk]

Originally Posted by Rayne Jade

OR... make it so that you buy the map-bookmarks from the TT for 1 PED. When you use it, it burrows into the ground and emits a radio signal that you can follow, but others cannot. It is a one time use and never goes away unless YOU delete it.

Well, then we wouldn't have as much people using it at least

[Mkdesign]

Originally Posted by GoNi

What issues.

This markers could be copied and traded in this other MMO.
There where thousands of this markers and you really needed them for some reason. Shortly befor the marks get removed I had around 12k landmarks registered.

Copying this landmarks produced insane lag.
This lag due to copying this landmarks was exploited by defenders of playerowned structeres to give them additional time to bring in their reinforcemnts from other systems/servers.
Another issue due to this lag, was that you couldn´t fight in a propper way, while the automatic defence (structures) worked fine as always.

Compared to EU it would be like Spider hits you again and again, but oyu can´t FAP due to item busy lag. You know what I mean?
We have bad lag issue already, we don´t need more options of producing lag.
When a miner opens his map close to hunter and the miner got 200-1000 marks of his latest finds in this area, this could surely produce lag, which mainly affects the hunter less the miner.

No need of a "trade function" for the landmarks.
Just store them in a personal file for each computer in the main Entropia Universe folder

When you load the map, the game loads the markers in the log stored in the hard-disk...
No server load, and everyone is happy...

No additional lag, since It's your choice to use the markers or not

[Dion Red Strike]

See, I was thinking more along the lines of only one marker... only you see the marker...

This one marker, you can move whenever you want, for free, and, remove it if it's annoying your radar...

kinda like in that one open ended rpg game that starts with an O... I have it on xbox...

[Nighthawk]

Originally Posted by Dion Red Strike

kinda like in that one open ended rpg game that starts with an O... I have it on xbox...

You mean the one that is the fourth in a series where the third part starts with "M"? if so I have both on computer even though the O one laggs (looks like a comic when I play although I have over 80 hours anyways)

But anyway, in these games there are GREAT maps/markers

[Wistrel]

high res, annotatable and tradeable maps are all great ideas from the past. Still nothing though...

[FrostBlaze]

Originally Posted by Dion Red Strike

See, I was thinking more along the lines of only one marker... only you see the marker...

That was what i was thinking also. The marker would be just an aid for navigating the map.

And why should they be tradable . Tradeble mapmarkers is not what I had in mind. It would just be one helpful personal moveable dot on the map for only you to see. And the data for this marker could be ofc on the players harddrive.



Is it allowed to use names of non-online pc games to use for an example?

[Leandro Kun]

A marker that would show on everybody in the teams map would be very cool for showing newcomers the ropes.

[FrostBlaze]

Originally Posted by Leandro Kun

A marker that would show on everybody in the teams map would be very cool for showing newcomers the ropes.

That would be very helpful indeed. Me like...

[NightwolfAA2k5]

Great idea I know this feature is pretty useful, from an addon in that MMO with that large playerbase...

- Nightwolf

[GoNi]

Originally Posted by Leandro Kun

A marker that would show on everybody in the teams map would be very cool for showing newcomers the ropes.

and exactly there starts the problem with server traffic and lagg.

one marker stored at your harddisk is the beginning, then come more and more, as comunity always wants more.

Next step, the marker visible for teammembers, hey serversided, no more on your computer.

Next step as comunity wants it sooner or later, tradeable/copyable markers especially for miners to mark good mining spots aso.

And there we are!

I see this problems as I know this problems from other MMO.
This other company operating this other MMO removed all these options for reasons!