Watches & Compasses

[moopydoll]

Alright I'll start with the Watch. So many people usually just base time off of the sun position in the sky, or off the color of the surrounding area at a specific time of day. (Yellowish Orange = Dawn, Blueish or White = Midday, etc) Well what if you and your group are planning on raiding a base or going and searching a town for loot, and you want to go at a specific time so that maybe you don't have to go back home in the dark. Well the Watch would basically be your friend in that type of situation or any situation like it, telling you the exact time of day (using civilian time not military time) for when you want to hit that military base but you know the sun goes down at say 7:30 PM or maybe 8:00 PM, so you decide to go at 4:00 PM so you can have time to get back.

Now onto something a little more important, Compasses. So you don't have a Chart nor a GPS, or maybe you do but you just want to know at least what direction your going in since you may already know a certain location is in that general direction. Well like any normal Compass it will tell you the North, East, South, and West, and would appear in maybe your map section in the same place as your Chart or Satalite maps. (The tab you end up in if you press 'M') It would turn/spin so that North is always facing the North end of the map so if your player is facing South and you hit M the N symbol would be facing down, and if you were facing North it would be at the top.

Welp thats it for me, the first suggestion wasn't all that interesting personally, but the second was my personal favorite.

[Mushroom Steve]

Easy solutions: Learn to estimate, time the day cycle.

Use a map.


Common knowledge that 90% of the time the top of a map is North. No map? Use the sun.

[Infernal Rose]

Originally posted by Mushroom Steve:

Easy solutions: Learn to estimate, time the day cycle.

Use a map.


Common knowledge that 90% of the time the top of a map is North. No map? Use the sun.

I agree with you on the watch that you can just use the sun.
But the compass could be very useful in PvP situations. Like, you're getting shot from somewhere, but you don't know. Your friend sees him and he tells you "behind the tree" but the area is full of trees, so he tells you "52.3° South"
That way you can tell where and save yourself some time

[Mushroom Steve]

Originally posted by Kylie Burns:

Originally posted by Mushroom Steve:

Easy solutions: Learn to estimate, time the day cycle.

Use a map.


Common knowledge that 90% of the time the top of a map is North. No map? Use the sun.

I agree with you on the watch that you can just use the sun.
But the compass could be very useful in PvP situations. Like, you're getting shot from somewhere, but you don't know. Your friend sees him and he tells you "behind the tree" but the area is full of trees, so he tells you "52.3° South"
That way you can tell where and save yourself some time

You clearly need to work with your team more.

[Maxpowerammo]

Watches could be useful for synchronizing yourself with other teamates, while you can always use the sun/moon for a general time estimate, not everyone will estimate the exact same time.
A few seconds is all it can take for a fight to be over, you want your friends there now, not 2 minutes later.

Wearing a watch would display a small clock on your HUD, as well as on the map screen (in case players decide to toggle the HUD clock off).

There could even be two kinds of watches:
A civilian one, which when equipped would show an analog clock with 3 hands, and the numbers 3, 6, 9 and 12 visible, with lines to represent the hours in between. This watch would be white in colour and relatively shiny, possibly giving away your position.
And a military one, which when equipped would show a digital clock with hours, minutes, and seconds written. This watch would be black, and not as bulky as the civilian version.

Edit: As for a compass, this is rather useless as charts and gps fulfill that role. Up is North. Nelson could simply add a little "N" at the top of the map to signify North.

[Infernal Rose]

Originally posted by Mushroom Steve:

Originally posted by Kylie Burns:

I agree with you on the watch that you can just use the sun.
But the compass could be very useful in PvP situations. Like, you're getting shot from somewhere, but you don't know. Your friend sees him and he tells you "behind the tree" but the area is full of trees, so he tells you "52.3° South"
That way you can tell where and save yourself some time

You clearly need to work with your team more.

Nah, we just communicate in our own way that we understand. Nothing like us :p

[Infernal Rose]

Originally posted by Maxpowerammo:

Watches could be useful for synchronizing yourself with other teamates, while you can always use the sun/moon for a general time estimate, not everyone will estimate the exact same time.
A few seconds is all it can take for a fight to be over, you want your friends there now, not 2 minutes later.

Wearing a watch would display a small clock on your HUD, as well as on the map screen (in case players decide to toggle the HUD clock off).

There could even be two kinds of watches:
A civilian one, which when equipped would show an analog clock with 3 hands, and the numbers 3, 6, 9 and 12 visible, with lines to represent the hours in between. This watch would be white in colour and relatively shiny, possibly giving away your position.
And a military one, which when equipped would show a digital clock with hours, minutes, and seconds written. This watch would be black, and not as bulky as the civilian version.

Edit: As for a compass, this is rather useless as charts and gps fulfill that role. Up is North. Nelson could simply add a little "N" at the top of the map to signify North.

The compass can be used as I mentioned earlier, as a quick way to tell direction. Because when you're looking at your friends via map, it doesn't show where they're looking at. So just to save that little time of asking where are they looking and to which direction they wanna go. Just tell them to look 23° North and go forward. It doesn't even have to be an item. It can be an addition to the HUD and the map. Having N, S, W, and E on the according sides of the map with numbers in between for pinpoint directions

[Maxpowerammo]

Originally posted by Kylie Burns:

Originally posted by Maxpowerammo:

Watches could be useful for synchronizing yourself with other teamates, while you can always use the sun/moon for a general time estimate, not everyone will estimate the exact same time.
A few seconds is all it can take for a fight to be over, you want your friends there now, not 2 minutes later.

Wearing a watch would display a small clock on your HUD, as well as on the map screen (in case players decide to toggle the HUD clock off).

There could even be two kinds of watches:
A civilian one, which when equipped would show an analog clock with 3 hands, and the numbers 3, 6, 9 and 12 visible, with lines to represent the hours in between. This watch would be white in colour and relatively shiny, possibly giving away your position.
And a military one, which when equipped would show a digital clock with hours, minutes, and seconds written. This watch would be black, and not as bulky as the civilian version.

Edit: As for a compass, this is rather useless as charts and gps fulfill that role. Up is North. Nelson could simply add a little "N" at the top of the map to signify North.

The compass can be used as I mentioned earlier, as a quick way to tell direction. Because when you're looking at your friends via map, it doesn't show where they're looking at. So just to save that little time of asking where are they looking and to which direction they wanna go. Just tell them to look 23° North and go forward. It doesn't even have to be an item. It can be an addition to the HUD and the map. Having N, S, W, and E on the according sides of the map with numbers in between for pinpoint directions

But the map is already a compass, where up is North. Just tell your buddy to look Northeast.

[Milkywegian]

i agree with both compass and watch

[Infernal Rose]

Originally posted by Maxpowerammo:

Originally posted by Kylie Burns:

The compass can be used as I mentioned earlier, as a quick way to tell direction. Because when you're looking at your friends via map, it doesn't show where they're looking at. So just to save that little time of asking where are they looking and to which direction they wanna go. Just tell them to look 23° North and go forward. It doesn't even have to be an item. It can be an addition to the HUD and the map. Having N, S, W, and E on the according sides of the map with numbers in between for pinpoint directions

But the map is already a compass, where up is North. Just tell your buddy to look Northeast.

But your buddy can't tell where is North East if they don't have a map, or if it's at night, or if the sun is at the center of the sky.

[Maxpowerammo]

Originally posted by Kylie Burns:

Originally posted by Maxpowerammo:

But the map is already a compass, where up is North. Just tell your buddy to look Northeast.

But your buddy can't tell where is North East if they don't have a map, or if it's at night, or if the sun is at the center of the sky.

So just give a compass to everyone at the start? That doesn't make sense. And if it were an item it'd be useless because charts are among the first items you find as a freshspawn.