Players' location update

[stark hawk]

would prob be kinda confusing bc it'd flood the minimap with letters

[weak meadow]

Or just make the names small or smth

[stark hawk]

hmmm

[scenic blade]

Well the collored arrows are there to not have to implement that letters idea

However if this were to be implemented, I would like for it to be more true to the original and use the player icons instead of the first letter of their username

[weak meadow]

i agree

[scenic blade]

And, if ipod decides to go the extra step, those icons would be colored to match their color palette

[weak meadow]

thats actually an better idea, thanks though

[weak meadow]

But theres an problem

many people can use the same color pallete

so it can be confusing

[scenic blade]

I mean, I don't think it's a big deal. They already have the colored arrows to differentiate them from one another

[stark hawk]

how about their placement on the leaderboard instead? it'd show 1st 2nd etc under their arrow

actually that soudns more confusing

star count?

[scenic blade]

I would like to have a clearer way to show whose where in the leaderboard, but I think it's for the best that's not added

Oh!

[balmy kayak]

(hello chat)

[stark hawk]

wait star count is good actually

hollup

hi lee

[scenic blade]

What if the number is shown overlayed on top of the arrow, whereas the head is on top of it? (Below it if it's your arrow)

Ping

[weak meadow]

I was thinking of display just their first username letter for example an player called "Frostycake" then in the mini map only display "F" and if theres more than one guy that starts with F, for example "Festive" then display in the mini map "Fe"

[scenic blade]

I understand why you want to make it easier to differentiate people in the minimap but I really don't think it's that big of an issue

Again, just look at the colors

[balmy kayak]

what about "festive" and "fell"

[stark hawk]

not gonna use this for concept

[weak meadow]

then display "Fel"

[scenic blade]

The fabled FuckedFuck duo

[balmy kayak]

"festive" and "festival"?

[scenic blade]

Frosty and frosted?

[weak meadow]

Bro its not like half of an lobby starts with F bro 💀

[scenic blade]

Well it can

[balmy kayak]

uh

yea that

[scenic blade]

You just haven't found the right people

[weak meadow]

well first you gotta find lotta people to do that

[balmy kayak]

I am lotta people

[scenic blade]

I think it's better to do it similarly to how it already works when 2 or more people arrive with the same name

If multiple people have F at the start of their name, it'll name them F1, F2, F3...

[weak meadow]

Then how about the first letter of their username and their color pallete

[scenic blade]

Even if the second letter of their names is also the same, it'll ignore that and just use the first letter and number them anyways

[scenic blade]

If that's the case, we then go back to the problem you mentioned earlier

What if 2 people use the same color palette?

[weak meadow]

oh yea right...

[balmy kayak]

I got an idea

[weak meadow]

please tell us

[balmy kayak]

maybe there can be separate usernames

like in discord

[scenic blade]

That's too much

[weak meadow]

What about someone that doesnt use discord

[balmy kayak]

lee2p hidden username and Lee is shown username

example

[scenic blade]

The game doesn't have an accounts system or anything like that so a username and display name isn't needed

[balmy kayak]

hm ok then

[weak meadow]

Well okay then

[stark hawk]

how about this

[balmy kayak]

I like

[scenic blade]

That's pretty good!

What's the zeros though? Like, for the names or?

[balmy kayak]

0 stars

[stark hawk]

star count

[balmy kayak]

if it's a star tie it should be "T"

[stark hawk]

here another example

i kinda like this ngl

yeeeet another example

ok i should stop now lol

ok i actually really like this suggestion

it should be in the game

!!!!

[weak meadow]

Wowker and gleenie disagree

so i trashed this post and deleted the original message

[balmy kayak]

I never disagreed!!!!!!

[crystal pond]

this is just unneccesary tbh

i feel like numbers would just make it more confusing

[scenic blade]

I never disagreed either. I'm just saying the idea would be nice but needs to be changed in somewhat to better match the base game

[spice chasm]

Personally i like very much the idea of having star counts on arrows so that i don't have to move my eyes in a triangle everytime i want to check the general position of my targets along with understanding what to prioritise first.
Though i have concerns on how akward it could be to fit double digit numbers inside of tiny arrows

[dense olive]

kazik* not wowker

[tawny dagger]

we callin kazik wowker now?

alright

[stark hawk]

me just casually calling him kazzik with 2 z's instead of 1

[scenic blade]

I already forgot who else it was but it seems others have adapted the 2z strat

As for the wowker name, I kinda like it. Almost the same energy as rongle, but only windows has used it so far

[weak meadow]

I'm unique

[weak meadow]

You call me Windows, which is my username so it's not weird to call you Wowker since its in your username

[rotund kelp]

sometimes it can look weird. I remember thinking there was 2 players since the colored arrow and the map arrow are the same color and size

[scenic blade]

Wowker is part of my username yeah. I don't mind it, but my actual name is kazik

It's not, like, my real name, as I usually don't give that to people, but you get my point

[clear bobcat]

how come you are that name

(im not typing it out)

[scenic blade]

Tldr I find it funny to make random words and I thought it would be funnier to make an excessively long word

[rotund kelp]

I don't like this because now I have to read LITTLE LITTLE numbers

also I feel like it will be easy to confuse star count with something else

[weak meadow]

I also had an long username, i used it once but i prefered keep it short, it was called "MrWhiteGuyWindows10V"

Some toxic players started to say to me "wow this mr white guy windows is trash" and i thought "yo mr white guy actually sounds cool" lol

[scenic blade]

Yeah good call. I feel like "Windows10V" and "MrWhiteGuy" already serve well as their own separate names

[weak meadow]

Really cool isn't it?

[scenic blade]

Yeah! Less cool that I realize we're still speaking in a suggestions thread though

Sorry about that

[scenic blade]

Yeah but there's not much that can be done I don't think

[weak meadow]

Damn, thats right, so should we stop or prefer to move this to general?

[rotund kelp]

well actually, since the entire UI is redesigned in MvLO. Why does the track still have to be there

[scenic blade]

The only thing I can think of would probably be a shader that does some kind of checkerboard pattern with the colors of any arrows that are overlayed on top of each other. That feels very excessive though

[scenic blade]

You can move it elsewhere or end it here if you want. I don't mind either way

[rotund kelp]

this was in earlier verisons but was removed

[scenic blade]

I wonder why that is

[weak meadow]

old jungle

[scenic blade]

I genuinely forgot earlier versions had it

[weak meadow]

probally the early buildings

1.0.something

[scenic blade]

I'm talking about the head icon on the minimap. Why would ipod remove that after updating the ui?

[rotund kelp]

not the early early ones, since the earlier ones had no white background thingy on the UI

I think like 1.2.1

[rotund kelp]

probably because it made the track too big

[scenic blade]

Probably? It looks fine to me though

[rotund kelp]

I think because all of the things are up there

but if it was kept like that when the newer UI came I don't see it lookin that good

[scenic blade]

Yeah it could be a blessing in disguise

I'm not really asking it to be added for convenience or anything like that, I only want it added to replicate the original better

[rotund kelp]

like here, if there were bigger icons the track would be moved down quite a bit and the Mario/Luigi icons would become distracting at top. So I think I get why it's not like that

but I do see what you're talking about tho

[weak meadow]

the icons dont overlay the star

[scenic blade]

Oh I see it now. I knew the icons would move the map down a bit but I didn't think it'd be this much

[rotund kelp]

your idea would work best if the Ui still looked like this

and tbh, I like that UI a bit better than the newer one. It just needed to be a little smaller

[scenic blade]

If the ui looked like that, I would want the actual view of the game to be shrunken and moved down a bit

[weak meadow]

What if the minimap's bar go touch the top of the screen so there would be a little more space to the icons?

[scenic blade]

The reasion I imagine it was removed is because the texture covers a huge chunk of the top screen. Even if it's transparent, it's still very much in the way

Making it more transparent would be dumb because at that point you'd might as well remove it

[rotund kelp]

I'd like it to be maybe more Super Mario World-ish, the star count could be like the Dragon Count of that game (which would be closer to the original game) and the lives and stuff would be way smaller

[scenic blade]

The way the original mvlo shows star count is really stupid though. I never understood why they showed each individual star as an ui element instead of just using 2 numbers

Adding that to this game would be really difficult, but if ipod manages to do it, it would probably be messy and confusing to play with during a match

[rotund kelp]

probably because of the minigames