When player has lagfreeze, show chat icon.

[God, maker of the world]

I just saw a player freeze while running - his connection lagged. He was moving again soon after. But people would dignify lag (and not to kill someone while he's lag-frozen) more if they had an indicator other than the player just not moving. It happens even that someone was standing still before the lag started, and it's easy to kill someone then before realizing that they were incapacitated.

I bet it's reasonably easy to find out if the connection is temporarily blocked. And I propose to display an icon then, maybe just the chat-icon (smilie).


(And sorry for "spamming" the forum.)

[Rotacak]

Well, if someone have ping 999 and more, then if have lag icon above his head it can cause this:

1) more players will try to votekick him (noob behavior)
2) if this icon will see alien, he will try to attack

But globally I think, that icon is interesing idea and we can try that.

[God, maker of the world]

I don't insist on that icon. I just thought of it for simplicity.

The optimal way would be to have a second icon. Maybe something with a diagonal red cross through a LAN connector or something. Something that jumps at you.

Actually... I wonder. Maybe someone with a lag could even be invulnerable. This idea, however, might be bad in a way which I can't currently see.

[Rotacak]

Invulnerable no. In that case can be player turned into immortal barricade