Show current online players on the map

MaKTaiL · December 2015

It would be nice to see where players are gathered on a map. On Wrothgar for exemple, it would be nice to see which of the world bosses have people waiting to do it. On Imperial City Sewers, it would be nice to see where players from our alliance are at so we can try to join them, even if you are not on their group. On Cyrodill by allowing us to see players on the map we can have an idea of how many people from our alliance are attacking a keep, where they are heading at, etc. Of course, make it completely optional since the map would be crowded by player icons.

catalyst10e · December 2015

I think they're trying to slowly move away from the large group dynamic, being able to see your alliance members all balled up at one location so you can then add to that ball isn't going to help the lag situation at all.

RAGUNAnoOne · December 2015

No just no. PvE there are already enough things on a map plus do we really need more things loading in the background? PvP: same as PvE plus it ruins the point of finding players and there are already conflict indicators throughout pvp zones and siege weapon statistics on each keep, ruins stealth attempts, and makes it easier for grievers to gank PvE players that are doing quests.

MaKTaiL · December 2015

catalyst10e wrote: »

I think they're trying to slowly move away from the large group dynamic, being able to see your alliance members all balled up at one location so you can then add to that ball isn't going to help the lag situation at all.

They should disable Cyrodill entirely then since that's what it is all about.

Asherons_Call · December 2015

This would be a lag nightmare, especially if the player locations on the map constantly updated

MaKTaiL · December 2015

I like how people assume the lag will increase yet they have no technical knowladge whatsoever and this feature is available on every MMO I've played.

Asherons_Call · December 2015

MaKTaiL wrote: »

I like how people assume the lag will increase yet they have no technical knowladge whatsoever and this feature is available on every MMO I've played.

Showing hundreds of players moving in real time? Yep that would be a bit of a problem

catalyst10e · December 2015

MaKTaiL wrote: »

I like how people assume the lag will increase yet they have no technical knowladge whatsoever and this feature is available on every MMO I've played.

I like how some people assume other people have no technical knowledge whatsoever.... For the record, I do. And furthermore, they cant even get the Scroll moving on the map to move in real time, what happens when 180 different icons on the map need a constant .5 second update across all maps running?

Asherons_Call · December 2015

MaKTaiL wrote: »

I like how people assume the lag will increase yet they have no technical knowladge whatsoever and this feature is available on every MMO I've played.

Coincidentally this feature has been on zero MMOs that I've played going back to 1999

Nestor · December 2015

MaKTaiL wrote: »

I like how people assume the lag will increase yet they have no technical knowladge whatsoever and this feature is available on every MMO I've played.

Ever done any AoE's in a group against large numbers of enemies? Like the Wrothgar World Bosses and experienced lag? It's all related. And, its not because of the pretty light show. I have a video card that that makes the computer that came up with 42 look like a calculator. It's all the calculations that make for lag. Anything that has to be calculated and shown can contribute to lag. Tracking hundreds of players in a zone is going to introduce lag. Yes, I know, some Vet zones are lucky to have a dozen players in them.

Flynch · December 2015

Real-time updates on player positions on the map? Definitely won't add lag. Santa said so.

Asherons_Call · December 2015

Well Santa has real time updates on a large portion of the planet... So he must have a hellava server

Flynch · December 2015

Asherons_Call wrote: »

Well Santa has real time updates on a large portion of the planet... So he must have a hellava server

Well it is undoubtedly a cloud server but the way he carries on it must surely be a matter of 'elf and safety.

Xjcon · December 2015

It would be nice to know more about your factions whereabouts, however all it would do is promote spying.

Hand_Bacon · December 2015

The first casualty is always the deer....

...save the deer, just say no to this.

MaKTaiL · December 2015

Just allow this on the PVE areas then. Craglorn and Orsinium would benefit a lot from this.

Hand_Bacon · December 2015

So we'd introduce a whole new level of resource ganking?

"Oh look! Timmy is farming a route along somewhereoverthere. As long as I get ahead of him...."

You know it will happen.

deleted008293 · December 2015

This isn't a good idea at all. It will force the client and server to use even more bandwidth and computational power. Atm the game loads characters just few meters away from you. A real time monitoring means the game need to provide information of all players around the map!!! It also have to filter information of players from a parallel universe. What do you think will happen with performance then?

Also what if players will decide they want to join that lonely guy in questing? Maybe i want to play solo that dungeon for some extra challenge and not getting about 20 players on top of me ruining my experience.

TequilaFire · December 2015

This is not GTA V! lmao

Cathexis · December 2015

Hand_Bacon wrote: »

So we'd introduce a whole new level of resource ganking?

"Oh look! Timmy is farming a route along somewhereoverthere. As long as I get ahead of him...."

You know it will happen.