CTF idea- triangulation gun?

[torus]

I was thinking about how teamplay might be improved, as well as how CTF could be made more fun.

Tell me what you think, maybe it's a dumb idea ;P

The idea is this: there would be a weapon which would be held by all players, and would "mark" an enemy FC. When an enemy is marked, they would show up as being somewhere along a red circle, shown on the minimap. This wouldn't be very helpful- but if three people all marked the FC, it would track the FC until the mark wore off (maybe 30 seconds), because the circles would converge at the enemy FC's location.

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I'd have fun with this.

However, I think it's important to note we do waypoints which already provide more accuracy... though not widely used.

The gun would provide a solution to the less cfg savvy players.

[torus]

No one else has an opinion on this idea?

[Alien]

If you create a model...

[torus]

It would.. what? I'm not going to spend time and effort modeling something unless people think it's a good idea.

[Alien]

If you model it, I could try to make a patch, which does what you described.

OR, even BETTER, secondary laser fire should do THAT.

[torus]

Nah, secondary laser create a shield imo.

I could model it, yea. It would be less of a "gun" than a "device" though.

[BusterDBK]

Sounds like an interesting idea. However, it shouldn't be too accurate or it will mess up the "I am behind you with your flag ke ke ke"-type fun.

Do you think it could / should have map-dependent accuracy? I'm thinking very large maps vs. small maps (like basementctf ). The triangulation gun wouldn't be of much use in small maps if it's not pretty accurate.

[torus]

Maybe it would be a pickup (instead of a starting item)? Then it could only be put on maps where it's appropriate.

Well, it seems unlikely that it could happen now.

Nevermind. -_-

[Alien]

I'm still thinking it wastes weapon slot, because it has no secondary fire.