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There are quite a few posts already about Faction Symbols benig eye-sores but I don't think there are any threads started yet along the lines of relpacing them with something more useful like Health Bars to indicate the Hitpoints of players.
Red health bars over foes and Green health bars over allies (or maybe only Green health bars over allies and none over foes) would not only serve to indicate to which team a player belongs to but would actually communicate some useful information.
Health bars would also be less of an eye-sore since they are just a narrow strip as opposed to the current faction symbols which are a big chunky box. Since they are present in almost all RTS, RPGs, and MMORPGs, most players would more readily accept them as well.
I would still prefer to indicate player faction purely by placing faction colors on armor since it would be more immerssive than simply superimposing floaty things over player models but if you must have eye-sores they should atleast be useful eye-sores.
In any case, anything floaty should probably be toggleable with through a hotkey like Tab. That way, if you prefer not to see them it would be easy to turn them off and in those cases where you might find them useful you could simply turn them on just as quickly.
Red health bars over foes and Green health bars over allies (or maybe only Green health bars over allies and none over foes) would not only serve to indicate to which team a player belongs to but would actually communicate some useful information.
Health bars would also be less of an eye-sore since they are just a narrow strip as opposed to the current faction symbols which are a big chunky box. Since they are present in almost all RTS, RPGs, and MMORPGs, most players would more readily accept them as well.
I would still prefer to indicate player faction purely by placing faction colors on armor since it would be more immerssive than simply superimposing floaty things over player models but if you must have eye-sores they should atleast be useful eye-sores.
In any case, anything floaty should probably be toggleable with through a hotkey like Tab. That way, if you prefer not to see them it would be easy to turn them off and in those cases where you might find them useful you could simply turn them on just as quickly.
