Completed Add a Radar/Minimap

[Elitekid174 17]

Hello Fellow Tankers!

 

I was wondering if you could have a radar or mini map on a corner of the screen while you are playing a match.

The reason I believe this should be a good idea is because when people come across a new map to them for example a new player comes across the map Berlin, they won't be able to work their way around the map because either a shaft would snipe them or they would get completely lost. Why not get a radar to help them know where the enemy is!

I think this would be a great idea because when you spawn on your side of the map you can't see the enemy's name so that would be a disadvantage for a player who had just started the game, they would get confused.

 

I think maybe a radar would be fine because it would show where the enemy would be and it would be a unique way of hunting down players and not have to go though that hard hunt of finding players. 

I think also there should be a specific sign of the gold box because sometimes it players would go on a paining hunt just to look for the gold box and it would be unfair if a mammoth would be on one side of the map and the gold box drops on the other side and would have to go or stay on one match and wait 15 minutes of another one to drop.

 

I'm not sure about a mini map maybe it would be a good idea because it would show you detail of where you are going. 

 

Maybe there should be a tank icon to show where the enemy players and the friendly players are. 

The friendly should be green.

The enemy should be red.

 

I hope this idea should really give you an image of what it would be like with this feature

 

Thanks,

 

Elitekid174

[Maf 32,306]

Under review

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[mps] [intf] [ftr]

This has been suggested many times and I keep repeating the same thing - Tanki Online UI is made to be as simple as possible, so that you can focus on the gameplay without having to look around your screen to press various buttons. The minimap will take up a large portion of the screen, becoming a big distraction. Besides, the maps in Tanki are quite small and the tanks move fast, so a minimap would be unnecessary.

[Elitekid174 17]

Ok I understand now, its just that when I tried to search the idea up it never came up for me :(

[Wick3T 15]

This is an idea to improve teamplay in CTF before clan level of this game (m2, m3) or players that dont want to be or dont have the time to be in a clan.

During the battle a player would have a small map in the corner of his team showing only his team's players. This would alow a team to organise more coordinated attacks on the enemy flag, and also better defence, since the communication between players is very limited.

 This map mode would be OPTIONAL, a player could enable or disable it when creating a battle, or shut it down during the battle he/she would not want it.

[jazz20 1,181]

This would be great although can we really trust other players? Esp. when there are age differences as well as language barriers?

[Wick3T 15]

This would be great although can we really trust other players? Esp. when there are age differences as well as language bar

Well of course there will always be players who will not care obout teammates and play by themselves, but even in that case you can make more coordinated attack with them from knowing their position, wheter they care or not.

This whole idea is meant for team players to cooperate spontaneously and without having to use chat more than they use to.

[dilsharox 2,395]

1.it takes space out of the screen & when your playing in large maps there would a problem

2.u may be willing to work as a team but will everyone else have the same thought? even in CTF's players join mainly for their benefit so u cant expec t everyone to cordinate

[Maf 32,306]

During the battle a player would have a small map in the corner of his team showing only his team's players. 

Duplicate topics merged

[felinee1 48]

It would be great if pressing a key (eg. the shift key) would display a pop-up plan of the battle map, with a dot to indicate your tank's position.  It could also display the location of control points in CP, and the home flag base positions in CTF games. 

 

This would help when learning a new map.  Obviously, it is not very useful for small maps (eg. Island), but would be useful for very large and complicated maps. 

 

[Apologies if this has been previously suggested]

 

 

 

[drazeruzumaki 5,021]

+1 but never going to be implemented like all the other gr8 ideas

[dilsharox 2,395]

good idea 

 

 but never going to be implemented like all the other gr8 ideas

[Maf 32,306]

 

Topic merged

[thunderousrailgunner 1,934]

I Personally Like it to be only on maps of dusseldorf and berlin :D 

[felinee1 48]

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A clarification on the differences in the merging of similar (but not duplicate) topics in this thread:

  • Elitekid174 proposed that a radar or mini map appears on a corner of the game screen.

  • Felinee1 proposed that a plan of the battle map be accessible as a pop-up. 

[Maf 32,306]

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A clarification on the differences in the merging of similar (but not duplicate) topics in this thread:

  • Elitekid174 proposed that a radar or mini map appears on a corner of the game screen.

  • Felinee1 proposed that a plan of the battle map be accessible as a pop-up. 

It's still a similar concept, so it's best to keep it all in one place, so that when the developers do come to look for new ideas, they will see one topic for each idea and consider a variety of different concept that numerous players suggested for each idea.

 

I'll be honest with you - in this particular case the idea is nothing new and has been considered by the developers multiple times throughout the years. Most suggestions regarding addition of a minimap are known to them and the only reason they can't add it is because of limitations in Flash. Or simply because they don't want to.

[felinee1 48]

... and the only reason they can't add it is because of limitations in Flash. Or simply because they don't want to.

I don't think it would be difficult to program a pop-up.  Currently the Tab key displays a pop-up window of game stats, and the Missions button pops up a window which has a bitmap graphic image.  So it would be relatively simple to program a pop-up window that's displays pressing a key (eg. "M" for "Map"), which contains a bitmap image of the battle map plan.  The program would already have the coordinates of where you tank is when you press this key, so it would be simple maths to convert these coordinates to a pixel location on the bitmap image.  I don't know how difficult it would then be to put a marker on the map to show where your tank is, but I imagine it would be a basic level of difficulty given the complexity of the 3D programming the developers are used to coding the gameplay. 

 

All things considered, I don't think it would take too much development  effort, and would contribute to the playing of the game.  Only if they wanted to, of course!

[asdasemm 925]

i liked the idea

but tankii wont allow :(

[Yisroel.Rabin 16,224]

Thought of this once, but I thought it was too much... 

[PowerStrike1.1 270]

Don't like it showing enemies. What's the point of stealth?!

[tankionline2027 778]

Maybe you can get the radar but its like pro pass you may certain about for it to stay there? Like - you pay 30,000 crystals and u get it onto your screen in the corner as well as its duration is 1 month :) I just saying 30,000 cause its a bit too big privilege so needs to be expensive :)

[r_GaIaxy2 8,611]

Who needs a mini map? Just move your camera up high and you can see enough

[Maf 32,306]

Who needs a mini map? Just move your camera up high and you can see enough

On a large map that just makes you see less of the map  -_-

[r_GaIaxy2 8,611]

On a large map that just makes you see less of the map  -_-

More of a "mini" map feeling though and on mini maps you generally dont see the whole map, just around where you are

[Zenyth 6,494]

Radar takes up too much space and it shouldn't show enemies, maybe just for rookies till the rank of Corporal this option should be available.. Coordinated manouvres can be sine through chat and no map is too big that you don't have a clue of what's going on..

[felinee1 48]

Don't like it showing enemies. What's the point of stealth?!

In my proposal it would only display the map, your tank's position, and depending on the game, the position of flag bases (CTF) or CP's.