New Idea

[Black Parade]

I've been thinking of a pretty cool realism plugin, that would take realism to a whole new level. The idea is pretty simple. In Saving Private Ryan, or any decent war movie really, you always see a squad stop and take out a map and mark down locations and what not. I started thinking, what if we could implement this into Day of Defeat. I know from the basic idea of it, it sounds pretty useless, but instead of marking down your location and generally finding out where you are, you are able to mark certain spots of the map. Basically what it would do is call the map up so you see it in its full view, but instead of just you seeing it, everyone on that certain team (allies or axis) sees it as well. And the person who called it would be able to mark certain points on the map. Not too sure if this would be able to work, but basically what could happen is anyone would be able to type in a command, let's say for instance "call_map", and it would show the big map on everyone's screen. Then, the person who used the command "call_map" would then be able to use their mouse and mark a point on the map. If anyone thinks this idea may be a good one, or even possible I would be glad to go in to more detail with it. I just thought maybe I would throw the idea out there.

[Tank]

I hope you don't mind putting my 2 cents into this. Although I don't run a realism unit/community I do think keeping realism in the communinity is very important.

There are a few things I would like to mention on this idea. First of all, there is already a mapmarker in DoD. You can place a mapmarker (or firemarker, don't know what it's called) on your map and everyone on your team will be able to see that mapmarker. This could be used for pointing out chokepoints in the map.

Another thing you need to keep in mind is that movies like Saving Private Ryan and all the other WWII movies are all campaigns, what we play in Day of Defeat is based on rounds and respawns...the maps are not that huge that you could all sit in a spot with your team and talk strategies while everyone is looking at a map. This will generally cause for one nade to be tossed in the group and you say bye bye :D There is just generally not enough time to get the entire map and talk tactics.

I hope you don't think im talking down on you in any way as I think it's really important that people share their thoughts, ideas with the community as it can only resolve in better plugins and for a lot perhaps even a better game.

[Price [508th PIR]]

myself being a realism Cpt think it would be a bad idea. Reason why, If someone calls it up, it blocks everyones screen and you cant see, so if they are getting shot at, well they have no chance to defend them selves. This is just my opinion, but if it was made i would try it out. Its a cool idea but you would have to make sure everyone is safe inorder to use it. I dont know. Other people will have other opinions. That is just mine.