Beacon Upgrade "Channels/Colors"

OFFLINEX · April 2016

I don't know about other people but after a couple hours of play I found my hud filled with so many beacon pings it was hard to see. I think a simple change to the beacons to have channels/categories/colors you can place it into, which you can switch through using your PDA so you will only have a few pings at a time helping with navigation. So for example you could place a beacon at a wreck you find, naming it and placing it into a category like wrecks with maybe a different color like green or something. It would be nice so you can switch through channels or categories and bring up resource farming areas or areas of interest or cave entrances etc.

Rainstorm · April 2016

they could place little dots on the beacon right next to the name window that once clicked several times allows to change the color of the name, just like the wall lockers text can be color-changed by clicking the bottom dot next to it

Frraksurred · April 2016

I would be content if we could just toggle them on/off in the PDA. That way we could see just the ones we want to see, and only as long we want to see them.

Stop all the blinky things!

frazmi · April 2016

I love the "channels" idea. The PDA could come with a capacity of 6 pre-named and pre-colored channels, which can be individually turned on-off. Then we could have the "PDA Channel Upgrade" (one wiring kit required to construct) which would increase available channels to 12 and also allow the player to rename/edit the channel names and colors.

There would have to be some way to assign a beacon to a channel -- perhaps part of the edit beacon name functionality?

Beacon Upgrade "Channels/Colors"

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