Nitpicky Request: Outfit Tags
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I've always felt an important part of the Planetside experience was the encouragement of teamwork and team loyalty. I always liked the concept of the "honorable enemy", where I recognized by name (and hated) the exploits of enemy outfits. The "TRx" tag, for example, commanded notice, respect, infamy, or all of the above. It brought instantaneous recognition without the clutter that an underslung outfit name would cause.
To that end, I would respectfully request PS2 have that kind of outfit tag built into the name display system. Let each outfit leader choose 2-5 letters plus (optionally) various bracers or brackets to offset it, and let a configuration option be to automatically attach that tag to the members of the outfit. The results would only be positive: it creates outfit identity and enemy recognition, as well as less name awkwardness if someone changes outfits.
As well, if PS2 is as big as we all hope it will be, allowing for alliances (groups of outfits) and alliance tags would also be good.
EDIT, since I tweeted this. When you see my name, it would look like "[SoV]Synnoc" or "Synnoc<SoV>" since I'm in the Sons of Vanu outfit. If I left SoV and joined Ghosts of the Revolution, my name might then look like "{GotR}Synnoc". If GotR and Azure Twilight decided to have a combined arms night, one of the leaders might create a "[GoT]" tag (Ghosts of Twilight) that everyone would start sporting for that night's fun.
Last edited by Synnoc; 2012-06-12 at 11:02 AM.
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