Locating people not on teams

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I've noticed that some players seem to have a sixth sense about where
another player is - NOT on a team. For example, the other day I called
around for help doing an inf transfer, a guy said, "Yo!," I asked him if he
wanted tp to my spot... and a few moment later he just dropped out of
flight in front of me and said, "Nope."

I've had this happen before. How did he find me? Is there a way to echo-loc
players who aren't on your team?

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Shenanigunner <shenanigunner@NOdgathSPAM.kom> wrote in
news:Xns960E89F316C8Bnitropressatnitrosyn@216.168.3.44:

> I've noticed that some players seem to have a sixth sense about where
> another player is - NOT on a team. For example, the other day I called
> around for help doing an inf transfer, a guy said, "Yo!," I asked him
> if he wanted tp to my spot... and a few moment later he just dropped
> out of flight in front of me and said, "Nope."
>
> I've had this happen before. How did he find me? Is there a way to
> echo-loc players who aren't on your team?
>

It depends.

If you are fast on the keyboard....adding the person temporarily to your
friend's list gives you the option of calling them up in the 'TARGET'
windows (which I leave up in the left corner). If you are in range of the
person, a quick spin around will show the green box around the target----
fly/run/teleport there----suprise.

If you are on a team, your team members can show up on the map (if you have
the option by default selected) or again, the target window will put a
green box around you when someone selects you in the team list.

In the search window, the same thing....selecting the person in the search
results, if in range, will put a visual green box around you.

The thing I have noticed, as with the assist, if I select someone that has
selected me, I can see my red/blue bars above my head and some of the green
box itself.

This might be an option to turn on or off....but I haven't really had a
need to look for it.

There have been times when I did the same thing, had a team member ask me
if I wanted TP, quick select them, find where they are and if close to them
come into their field of view.

 

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Janlee <janelee@ameritech.net> wrote:
> In the search window, the same thing....selecting the person in the
> search results, if in range, will put a visual green box around you.

That's probably it. You don't get a map icon, but you do get the green
reticle. Got it.

The "friends" thing would work, too.

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"Janlee" <janelee@ameritech.net> wrote in message
news:Xns960EA1FA17F83janleeameritechne@207.115.63.158...
| Shenanigunner <shenanigunner@NOdgathSPAM.kom> wrote in
| news:Xns960E89F316C8Bnitropressatnitrosyn@216.168.3.44:
|
| > I've noticed that some players seem to have a sixth sense about where
| > another player is - NOT on a team. For example, the other day I called
| > around for help doing an inf transfer, a guy said, "Yo!," I asked him
| > if he wanted tp to my spot... and a few moment later he just dropped
| > out of flight in front of me and said, "Nope."
| >
| > I've had this happen before. How did he find me? Is there a way to
| > echo-loc players who aren't on your team?
| >
|
| It depends.
|
| If you are fast on the keyboard....adding the person temporarily to your
| friend's list gives you the option of calling them up in the 'TARGET'
| windows (which I leave up in the left corner). If you are in range of the
| person, a quick spin around will show the green box around the target----
| fly/run/teleport there----suprise.
|
| If you are on a team, your team members can show up on the map (if you
have
| the option by default selected) or again, the target window will put a
| green box around you when someone selects you in the team list.
|
| In the search window, the same thing....selecting the person in the search
| results, if in range, will put a visual green box around you.
|
| The thing I have noticed, as with the assist, if I select someone that has
| selected me, I can see my red/blue bars above my head and some of the
green
| box itself.
|
| This might be an option to turn on or off....but I haven't really had a
| need to look for it.
|
| There have been times when I did the same thing, had a team member ask me
| if I wanted TP, quick select them, find where they are and if close to
them
| come into their field of view.

In fact one could map a pair of keyboard commands just for that very
function.

/bind <key> "/friend $target"
/bind <key> "/unfriend $target"

The second one is the problematic one if the person makes it into your
friend list.
I just usually try to target the person, but it would be nice to have a
"target-player" command for the current zone without going through the
/friend command.