Country Flags in Battle window and in-game

pcmaster · Post by **pcmaster** » 18 Apr 2007, 14:49

I would appreciate if there were flags not only in the main lobby, but in the Battle-window as well. Furthermore, they (or country codes) could appear in the game itself as well.
Such improvement should not cost more than few lines of code (for the battle-window just a new column in the players' list).
And why do I miss 'em? Just to know who are you playing with and maybe to switch to more common language than English (which I don't have bigger problems with, I hope :)).

Thx

Zoy64 · Post by **Zoy64** » 18 Apr 2007, 15:03

I think that is a great idea, i have been wanting that myself. I think it would be cool to see the country of who you are facing (and the fact that you could say "Hey mom, i beat a guy in Japan, India, the US, ect.")

KDR_11k · Post by **KDR_11k** » 18 Apr 2007, 17:21

Would also be nice if the lobby made a sound whenever someone joined the game you're in.

NOiZE · Post by **NOiZE** » 18 Apr 2007, 18:23

KDR_11k wrote:Would also be nice if the lobby made a sound whenever someone joined the game you're in.

you can already do that...

jackalope · Post by **jackalope** » 18 Apr 2007, 18:25

Zoy64 wrote:(and the fact that you could say "Hey mom, i beat off a guy in Japan, India, the US, ect.")

you have strange conversations with your mom

Zoy64 · Post by **Zoy64** » 19 Apr 2007, 01:35

Zoy64 wrote:(and the fact that you could say "Hey mom, i beat a guy in Japan, India, the US, ect.")

My mom enjoys knowing the people i face around the planet.

smoth · Post by **smoth** » 19 Apr 2007, 01:42

I like being just a GUY in the game and not american, german,japanese whatever, people get too caught up in nationality.

Snipawolf · Post by **Snipawolf** » 19 Apr 2007, 01:47

Intelligent peoples get teh hell outta politics

KDR_11k · Post by **KDR_11k** » 19 Apr 2007, 07:57

Helps with noticing which languages other players are likely to speak.

smoth · Post by **smoth** » 19 Apr 2007, 08:51

Good point, i did not think of that.

bwansy · Post by **bwansy** » 19 Apr 2007, 14:49

Some people would be like "Oh, you are not from English-speaking countries, then I won't be so strict on your grammar", while some people would be like "Ha! A Korean guy! Let's combomb him!"
I am sure some people would like to hide their nationalities.

Post by **trepan** » 19 Apr 2007, 14:54

The biggest change would be setting up TASServer to send the country codes
over the wire, and having them placed in the script.txt. The rest would be fairly
easy, you could even lua script it if the players' country codes were made available.

EDIT:
Hm, I guess the country data is already available... Just need to change TASClient
and the alternates to write the data in the startup script. I'll make the necessary
changes in the spring exec, someone else will have to get the lobby clients setup.
The script.txt tag name is 'countryCode', and I've made the information available
through the lua interface.

smoth · Post by **smoth** » 19 Apr 2007, 18:25

he he he, then I could change their flag to federation or zeon depending on their nationality

...

just kidding

KDR_11k · Post by **KDR_11k** » 19 Apr 2007, 19:09

Crap, then I'd be stuck with Zeon.

rattle · Post by **rattle** » 19 Apr 2007, 20:07

Indeed. They are kind of space nazis.

pcmaster · Post by **pcmaster** » 20 Apr 2007, 15:26

the reasons are clear, so stop OT and tell me, who to ask, if not here

i don't have time nor knowledge of spring lobby client to do myself.

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Country Flags in Battle window and in-game

Country Flags in Battle window and in-game