Watchtower improvement: Will be spotted at X

[ULTRAFUSE]

So when you receive an incoming that is going to be tagged by the watchtower, I think it should be nice to show at which time it gets spotted.
Right now it looks like this:

However, where it says (will be detected by a Watchtower) it should show also at which time it gets tagged.

 

[JawJaw]

Approved for voting. Good luck!

 

[Eakshow McGee]

Could be done with an extra column counting down, might be to cluttered?
Pretty much replicate the script shared here

 

[seroxy5]

I see a potential problem with this. The time will depend on which unit is sent since the watchtowers only take distance into account. Given this, you can immediately tell what units are coming even if you are offline when it's sent. Fake trains would lose all purpose if this gets implemented and therefor I think it's a bad idea.

 

[Eakshow McGee]

I see a potential problem with this. The time will depend on which unit is sent since the watchtowers only take distance into account. Given this, you can immediately tell what units are coming even if you are offline when it's sent. Fake trains would lose all purpose if this gets implemented and therefor I think it's a bad idea.

it could depend what you tagged it as? if you tag it has noble it will calc it has noble speed

 

[DaWolf85]

I see a potential problem with this. The time will depend on which unit is sent since the watchtowers only take distance into account. Given this, you can immediately tell what units are coming even if you are offline when it's sent. Fake trains would lose all purpose if this gets implemented and therefor I think it's a bad idea.

It could work off the same system that showing the unit icons does. But even so I agree that there's no good way to communicate this. I've had people complain about the accuracy of my script, and it turned out they'd tagged stuff wrong. Making the feature available to everyone would make that problem exponentially worse.

 

[Elie]

Instead of "will be spotted at X", it can say "will be spotted between X and Y". This information is available to the defender anyway, if they do some calculations.