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Topic: Energy bar in the Squad!

As a  specialist in energy Ictus / Troiar etc. ... I miss a lot of way to see what are the levels of those accumulators squaders with me.

Example image of what could be done:

http://img808.imageshack.us/img808/183/ … 035602.png

Down the armor bar squad a little bar indicating the energy level. (Here in blue as an example).

Thank you to transfer my applications for developers, I find it very important for everyone Squad.

Accumulator being visible from the server. This system would be essential to put on.

Best Regards,

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Re: Energy bar in the Squad!

Would be nice but I think the resulting increase in traffic might be too much for the network infrastructure to handle. But if that is not  a problem I dont see why not.

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Re: Energy bar in the Squad!

Infinity Nova wrote:

Would be nice but I think the resulting increase in traffic might be too much for the network infrastructure to handle. But if that is not  a problem I dont see why not.

actually, the increased bandwidth is the main reason why it is not in (as i was told during beta by DEVs)

the accumulator recharge formula seems simple, but its update frequency is very high. dunno if it would be possible to optimize the server-client-communication to send the same data to multiple clients at once, without increasing the traffic.

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Re: Energy bar in the Squad!

There was a post a little while ago where they changed the update time, because it was being done on the client and wasn't very accurate, so it now comes from the server.

Maybe, instead of an exact value, they can set a bit when AP drops below 1/2 and clear at 10% over 1/2*, with a 'Low AP' indicator light sort of thing (I suck at UI design) in the squad window.

*Set and Clear should be when AP is in/out of the 'sweet zone' what ever that range really is.

This means you won't be wasting transfer on bots that are AP stable.

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Re: Energy bar in the Squad!

Erf ..

And why there have no real dedicated server?

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Re: Energy bar in the Squad!

arga - thats actually a nice idea

in beta i asked to have more target information availiable with higher tier chassis-scanner equipped (that thing has not much use during combat atm)

if you could see the targets akkumulatorlevel with a t4 chassis scanner (at least one active scan necessary) its value would raise in combat equip for pelistal forces wink

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Re: Energy bar in the Squad!

The server is actually a cheese sandwich, with a little mustard for better conductivity of the network cable... there are rumors they are going to make it a grilled cheese, but we can only wish for such tastey improvements.