Beacon labels or different color/ shapes

[Geewhiz]

I do not see an option to change the color for the beacon or a simple text label. I mention different color/shapes in case someone is color blind shapes would work.

[aRPeaR]

There is a small display on the pole, you can acces it and change the color.

[Geewhiz]

Thx!

[Felix McDaggart]

it would be nice to add text though, im running out of colours lol

[EastyDog]

Couldn't agree more, adding titles to the beacons as well as color would be a godsend!

[Taonath]

Originally posted by McDaggart:

it would be nice to add text though, im running out of colours lol

Nearly 16.8 million colors and you run out of them? I don't want to see your savegame. 🙈

[julia]

Originally posted by EastyDog:

Couldn't agree more, adding titles to the beacons as well as color would be a godsend!

If we could assign a text to the beacon that is displayed when the beacon is in the middle of the focus, that would indeed be a "nice to have". Thumbs up from me.

[Major Trubble]

Different Shapes ( Hexagon , Octagon , Triangle , Square , Round ) with the various colours already available . ( eg. Square for Ore , Round for Crates , Triangle for Points of Interest , ...etc ) , Hexagon and Octagon may be difficult to tell apart at a distance ; McDaggart's idea would be nice , when you put the cross hair over the Beacon it gives you whatever text you put there .

[Taonath]

Personally I don't see a reason for beacons at all. The map is tiny and they disturb the view. But if it's easy to implement, why not.

[Major Trubble]

I agree with you on that 1 Taonath , I have a bit of a clutter of Beacons and it gets to be an annoyance more than anything , the thing I like about them is if I find something that I want to go back and pickup because my inventory is already full , other than that it is easy to remember locations on the map .

[Felix McDaggart]

Originally posted by Taonath:

Originally posted by McDaggart:

it would be nice to add text though, im running out of colours lol

Nearly 16.8 million colors and you run out of them? I don't want to see your savegame. 🙈

lol

[jackcorbae]

Originally posted by Taonath:

Personally I don't see a reason for beacons at all. The map is tiny and they disturb the view. But if it's easy to implement, why not.

If we're adding wishlists ... filters for the beacons to reduce the clutter until you need to remember where you marked that loot chest or ore extractor! :)

[prtmh]

If wishes were.... It would be nice to be able to turn off the beacons and just turn them on when your'e looking for one. It would also be nice if the trade rocket notifications did the same. They keep popping up when I'm in photo mode. Same goes for pinned recipes.

[Robirda]

Originally posted by prtmh:

If wishes were.... It would be nice to be able to turn off the beacons and just turn them on when your'e looking for one. It would also be nice if the trade rocket notifications did the same. They keep popping up when I'm in photo mode. Same goes for pinned recipes.

Lol! Don't you just love that fellow Murphy? His durn law keeps popping up at THE most inconvenient times! ;-P

I'm old fashioned; tried the beacons, found more than one to be mondo distracting when gazing at the landscape - so instead I have a heap of scrap paper beside the 'puter, scribbled with recipes and such, so I don't have to have my screen cluttered with pinned ones, and locations and such noted so I don't need the beacons.

Old-school, yes - all I can say is, I'm a big fan of Simple...

[SmokedHalibut]

Yes, filters would be great. Being able to see the text of the beacon on your map would be fabulous.

The vehicle beacon is excellent and they now have a system for displaying an Icon shaped one.

Suggestions:

- Create a set of icons like Extractor/Mine, Base, Loot/Treasure Pile/Valuable Resources, Uranium, Osmium etc
- Allow us to turn on that graphic for the beacon so we can indicate a mine
- Attach a beacon to a Tier 2 teleporter so we can home in on those specifically
- Microchip that leaves a beacon on your Death Crate so you can find it instead of being stressed (or I suppose, summon it with a unit you build in the base but that's easily abused because people would die just to not walk places)