I think the V key is neat. Being able to send multiple messages without typing makes communicating with your team a lot easier. Why not enhance this to cover 99% of the useful in game chat? See images.
+1 if you like this idea please. Perhaps I would set "X" as the ward ping and "C" as the Enemy Champion Here" ping.
P.S. Keep the V key as is. It's nice to have a generic ping for all other uses such as "Come to Blue" or "Let's Drag".
I need one for OOM, OUT OF MANA
thanks :P
I am a HUGE fan of this! I can't tell you how often I die typing commands to my team. This would be so helpful!!
Seems nice, but maybe a little too complex for really quick pinging. And what would the pings look like? I think it would be awesome to have something like this though.
You're on the right track, because pings lack a particularly important option I think, which is essentially, "Gank incoming", which is not the same as "Danger". Also, to regard pings to nearby players or all players, sort of separating them to local or global pings. There's a lot of confusion and ambiguity about the ping system that could definitely be cleared up.
The "Danger" ping is very ambiguous and doesn't actually indicate what the team should do, or even if it's specific to anyone. It almost always requires some sort of other indicator or follow-up in chat to clarify what that person means.
While I can't fully go along with the complexity of what's suggested, I do think the pings are too ambiguous and fail to communicate any truly meaningful information.
A "fall back" ping would also be a much better idea than the basic "Caution" ping, for the same reason "Danger" doesn't really communicate what to do.
Rito already said they can't do anything with the pings because it's too confusing for new players and convoluted for everyone else.
Apparently the special olympics makes up a very significant amount of this game's player base.
Good idea. The ping for a particular character could just have the ping + a smaller pic of the character in the mini map. Same with ward drop ping... just a small pic of the ward (or ward with an X) on top of the ping.
This might be getting a little too detailed. You are losing a lot of needed information in order to make room for redundant information and warnings that are far too specific. Why do I need pings for individuals champions? I can already ping a lane missing to indicate that champion, ping a warning for where they were headed, or ping on top of their head to focus them. Why do I need a ping for "Enemy Warded?" and "Enemy Ward Here"? They convey the same information with only slightly different degrees of certainty. (Further, "Pink/Sweeper Here" is essentially the same thing, since the ping's primary usage is to indicate where to destroy an enemy ward.) Finally, I'm not fond of "Please Ward Here" in general. Either ward it yourself, or don't tell me where you think I should place my wards.
In short, the ward system does need to be more detailed with more options, but other threads in the past have done it FAR better than you did.
Yeah thanks! I know the implementation needs thought but I think we desperately need better communication tools in LoL.
i trained my fingers to use the F-keys for pings. i dont look at the keyboard for commands. its a short training period man! try it to key-bind.
There's this thing called chat...
When I started playing I used c and v for my summoners. Then they added the new ping system, and it couldn't be removed from v at first, so I moved to x and c.... so these new ideas of yours make my summoner preferences sad.
I like the idea though! A bit overwhelming, but definitely a lot of info that could be quickly provided.
Aren't please pink/sweeper here the same as Enemy ward here?
i can barely contain my enthusiasm to see someone pinging my face constantly trying to tell me something they could've told me in five seconds time over the ten second time of spamming pings
With all the new ping threads popping up, I figured I'd bump this.
You know, with this implemented I can't see why chat would even be necessary...and that's a good thing!
Or they could add a mic and we could have all the commands in the world.
"v" ?!? you dont have smart pings hot-keyed?
i do agree that we need an "enemy ward here" ping!
