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Strategus => Strategus General Discussion => Topic started by: Panos_ on January 03, 2014, 03:44:34 pm

Title: Same banner for all players.
Post by: Panos_ on January 03, 2014, 03:44:34 pm: IMO, in strategus all the players should play with the banner of the faction that they are mercing for.

It`s not such a big change, but it will help the immersion a bit.
Title: Re: Same banner for all players.
Post by: Rebelyell on January 03, 2014, 08:33:56 pm: Quote from: Panos_the_Bear on January 03, 2014, 03:44:34 pm
IMO, in strategus all the players should play with the banner of the faction that they are mercing for.

It`s not such a big change, but it will help the immersion a bit.
would help a lot
sometimes in big fights I have no idea who is enemy and who is friends

really good idea IMO
Title: Re: Same banner for all players.
Post by: The_Slim on January 03, 2014, 10:05:40 pm: Most importantly it would make armies wearing heraldic mail look fucking badass
Title: Re: Same banner for all players.
Post by: Tomas_Miles_again on January 03, 2014, 10:36:43 pm: What if you want to show off your little vassal bitches?
Title: Re: Same banner for all players.
Post by: Stabb on January 03, 2014, 11:56:29 pm: I think a good feature if this was implemented would be a check-mark where you could request that the battle commander allows you to use your own banner instead of the faction's.
Title: Re: Same banner for all players.
Post by: Aldogalus on January 04, 2014, 08:53:05 am: When i initially saw the title of this thread, I was thinking you were refering to a banner slot, that was literally open to all players. This was an idea I had a while back, just for fun. Make one banner and get as many people to join it as possible. Balance seems so terrible sometimes, that maybe this plan would render us with 1/3 of the winning team dead
Title: Re: Same banner for all players.
Post by: KaMiKaZe_JoE on January 04, 2014, 06:04:54 pm: I prefer seeing what factions are fighting for who, and enjoying all that different heraldic swag. It's nice and imo helps immersion, with lords and knights and shit using their personal heraldry on the battlefields of old.

But, it'd be a cool option to have for commanders.
Title: Re: Same banner for all players.
Post by: Turkhammer on January 04, 2014, 06:42:58 pm: Quote from: Rebelyell on January 03, 2014, 08:33:56 pm
would help a lot
sometimes in big fights I have no idea who is enemy and who is friends

really good idea IMO

You'd still have to id the ones without icons as being the enemy.
Title: Re: Same banner for all players.
Post by: bagge on January 04, 2014, 06:54:15 pm: http://forum.melee.org/strategus-general-discussion/strategus-banners/msg835596/#msg835596

Made this post a long time ago. No one with true power responded tho. :(
Title: Re: Same banner for all players.
Post by: kinngrimm on January 06, 2014, 01:22:54 pm: simple but genius idear

@Bagge
shouldnt have made your banner an exampel there perhaps :lol:
Title: Re: Same banner for all players.
Post by: bagge on January 06, 2014, 05:07:39 pm: Quote from: kinngrimm on January 06, 2014, 01:22:54 pm
simple but genius idear

@Bagge
shouldnt have made your banner an exampel there perhaps :lol:

Why not? Simple is good, and it's written Shu Han on mandarin afaik.

If you wanted to disrespect Korgoth's banner you should take a look at your own.
Title: Re: Same banner for all players.
Post by: Tomas_Miles_again on January 06, 2014, 05:40:26 pm: Oooooooooooooohhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh
Title: Re: Same banner for all players.
Post by: Strudog on January 07, 2014, 01:09:03 pm: The only problem with this is, is that its hard to tell people apart whe you are in the middle of the fight.

What i mean is if someone isnt following orders and hasn't got a different banner how are you meant to know who it is?, Multiple times a battle you re saying 'guy with the merc banner get back here or flank left'.

What are you meant to say instead? Guy with banner come back now, or you have to go ansd risk going to get shot just to find out who it is.
Title: Re: Same banner for all players.
Post by: Teeth on January 07, 2014, 03:30:12 pm: They could still have their personal banner as the icon above their head, but wear the faction banner when it comes to heraldic armour and shields. Definitely agree with this one, will make heraldic armies look fucking badass instead of looking like a damn rainbow. Also, it will allow me to wear heraldic armour without getting focused by all the ranged.
Title: Re: Same banner for all players.
Post by: Daunt_Flockula on January 07, 2014, 04:35:54 pm: Quote from: Aldogalus on January 04, 2014, 08:53:05 am
When i initially saw the title of this thread, I was thinking you were refering to a banner slot, that was literally open to all players. This was an idea I had a while back, just for fun. Make one banner and get as many people to join it as possible. Balance seems so terrible sometimes, that maybe this plan would render us with 1/3 of the winning team dead

I thought of that before as well. But it is actually pointless. Once a big number of players from the same clan get stacked in one of the teams, the other team is already essentially represented as the joined forces of clanless players. At this point, it doesn't really matter if you have the same banner or not. After all, organized teamplay renders bannerstacked players stronger. The others will remain unorganized in any case.

Also, despite not being a strat regular, I approve of Panos' suggestion.
Title: Re: Same banner for all players.
Post by: Smoothrich on January 08, 2014, 05:47:39 am: Save that for clan scrims, Strat battles are all about merc companies, faction alliances, etc, and in a real fight everyone would have their own heraldry on display anyways.
Title: Re: Same banner for all players.
Post by: Knitler on January 08, 2014, 11:58:57 pm: Quote from: Panos_the_Bear on January 03, 2014, 03:44:34 pm
IMO, in strategus all the players should play with the banner of the faction that they are mercing for.

It`s not such a big change, but it will help the immersion a bit.

That idea is soo old but now its getting some recognition, there are already blank banners in strat (well, atleast on the website).
There just need to be something like "set banner of your faction", strictly spliting cRPG Clans from Strategus Factions.
Or atleast including more banners to the game, but most of the factions will have the clans banner anyway, so not that much space needed.

It should also appear when the faction got 1 fief, if it got nothing it makes nearly nosense anyway, or they could actually select one of the native banners to have a unity in that if fighters might appear.

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Title: Re: Same banner for all players.
Post by: Corsair831 on January 15, 2014, 01:40:07 pm: @OP's suggestion, IMPLEMENT THIS PLEASE!! :)
Title: Re: Same banner for all players.
Post by: Normanguy on February 08, 2014, 10:58:46 pm: I like the sound of this and it hits all this 'realism' talk right on the head!!:D
Title: Re: Same banner for all players.
Post by: Panos_ on February 09, 2014, 12:11:28 pm: bumping this, since strat is only 6 days away!
Title: Re: Same banner for all players.
Post by: Corsair831 on February 09, 2014, 05:38:51 pm: Quote from: Panos_the_Bear on February 09, 2014, 12:11:28 pm
bumping this, since strat is only 6 days away!

message chadz with a link to the thread panos
Title: Re: Same banner for all players.
Post by: Panos_ on February 09, 2014, 05:41:40 pm: Yeah, because chadz will most definetly open a PM sent from me :lol:
Title: Re: Same banner for all players.
Post by: Corsair831 on February 09, 2014, 05:44:05 pm: Quote from: Panos_the_Bear on February 09, 2014, 05:41:40 pm
Yeah, because chadz will most definetly open a PM sent from me :lol:

meh, i messaged him with it anyway, it's not the hardest thing in the world to implement i think
Title: Re: Same banner for all players.
Post by: Hoppster on February 09, 2014, 06:15:11 pm: i hope this is implemented
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Post by: GRANDMOM on February 09, 2014, 07:06:36 pm: +1
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Post by: Knitler on February 09, 2014, 07:56:47 pm: Would be nice.
Title: Re: Same banner for all players.
Post by: Torben on February 09, 2014, 09:28:29 pm: bumping the shit out of this
Title: Re: Same banner for all players.
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Title: Re: Same banner for all players.
Post by: NejStark on February 10, 2014, 05:56:34 pm: Very cool idea, 2 aesthetically coherent armies facing off would look awesome.
Quote from: Corsair831 on February 09, 2014, 05:44:05 pm
it's not the hardest thing in the world to implement i think

I think everyone having the same banner over their head +heraldic wouldn't bee too hard, but having separate heraldic and overhead circle (what the fuck is that thing called?) would be trickier I think.