Whenever I go commander, the biggest issue I have is selecting my marines. So, I think, that if the commander could have a list of the players on one side of the screen that he could select (and ctrl+select!) from, it'd be a handy and convienient luxury.

Add a toggle command (that would come nicely packaged with a default hotkey for the mentally deficient) so that it wouldn't get in the way when you didn't need it, and it'd be good.

The few times I command, this would be most useful, you could even add what location they are at after their name on the selection toolbar.

Good idea. Since good ideas go to the bottom of the list I thought I would bump this one. And yeah, toggle switch would be nice as well, and their location.

Yeah, I was going to say have it like the windows taskbar or something, but I was tired and forgot what I was thinking about halfway through =\

Actually, I meant like a rectangle on the center of the left edge of the screen that looked like the rest of the commander hud.

sometimes you see really good ideas in here that actually would improve gameplay... this is one of them. however, in 3 days, this topic is on page 2, no-one will ever notice it again, and certainly not the devs.

Here's the best comm hud suggestion afaik , the info boxes could be small enough to fit the comm's screen even with 8 marines.

Mouse over the info box to highlight the marine's minimap dot. You could better oversee the activity of your marines and check if they do the right thing , and quickly reassign surviving marines to a new squad when meet each other.

Sounds Great.

- BUMP - , an idea which should be implemented!!

Mayby it could be improved by letting the comm deal out medpacks/ammo by this list. Either by icon in list or mark/shortcut stroke.

Alos maybe what equipment the rine is carrying, health and so on. Something like the Close Combat series hud display.

We need this or something like it, very badly, and it is a great relatively simple thing.

This gets my Where is Bob? Seal of approval


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IMPLEMENT !!

One of the better ideas on these forums...wordth im plementing...definately...

Good thing devs will see this.

*bump*

Arrggg.. dont let this one drown....

If you agree with the concept, please write your signia on this thread..

Yes? No? Maybe?

You know, it hurts me inside when I don't even get a response

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/me wubs the idea

ooooh that looks sexeh me wants!

I like this idea.

Bumpage++

I agree that selecting marines should be made easier. Your idea is a great one.

Two more quick thoughts on the same idea (and no, i haven't searched the forum to make sure noone ever mentioned this before. If they have I apologize to you, to them your families, their families and the Gods of worldwide fora)

- Make it possible to select marines on the minimap. Pull up a square around dots on the minimap and issue orders as usual on the main screen.
- Basically same as above. Just like individual marines and aliens can pull up the large overview map (+showmap), so should the comm be able to. And while having the map up, he should be able to select units directly from it.