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« on: 02-04-2011, 17:04:39 »
To make players stick together in their respective squads a little better, to give an advantage to staying together...
On the map and mini-map, make friendly infantry units either not appear or only appear as dots with no direction. NEXT. Give Vehicles, Recon, and Officers a Sonar similar to the Spy Plane that instead of showing enemy positions, shows friendly positions and direction.
Issues are that infantry probably can't be coded with sonar and I've never seen that feature used to show friendly vs. enemy.
Still the concept is sound for future game development, maybe 10 years from now when the engines advance. Your commander doesn't know where you are unless you stay near someone with a radio.
Also the sonar "hitting" the friendly units may be able to be used somehow to award points for staying with the squad leader.