It would be nice if we could attach messages to mines and nicks etc.
As it stands, I can mine the hell out of a rival, but other than sending them a pmail, there is no way to tell them why / gloat.

I might be making this up, but I think that a long time ago there was a brief period where you COULD attach a message to a mine (not sure about nicks). Why they removed it, who knows. I wouldn't be surprised if it made a comeback in the future.

And also when they trip your Nicks.

I dunno. I kind of like random senseless mining.

CHAOS.

How about puzzlenicks and puzzlemines?

If you get the answer right, the mine doesn't go off, or the nick doesn't work.

I like the idea of being able to attach a message to a mine. I also think the idea of a puzzlemine would be cool too.

puzzle mines? No thank you. My mines were meant to explode. Defusion is not an option.

Then don't place puzzle mines :).
In the current elections, people who say they will vote for me get my crates. The chaos party's could do the same with mines, vote for me or BOOM!

Lawls.

Gotta be honest, I've been expecting piles of mines from the chaos party, as I've been indiscriminately crating active users...regardless of their association.

If I had to keep buying armor, I'd have less to spread around.

oh shit.

/me goes to buy armor.

lol - talk about setting yourself up. You DID want the armour badges, right?

The issue with this would be it would make laying a mine even more of an arduous process. You'd have to lay the mine, then click a submit button after deciding whether or not to leave a note.

I don't think many people would favor this since one of the major complaints is that it is already a two click process to lay a mine (without using the keyboard commands).

So make it two buttons, one with the popup, one without.
On the old toolbar I'd say put one on the mine's popup menu, and an option to pick which is default. Something like that should be doable with the current UI...

Until the 5.1 release I have never used keyboard shortcuts, but now that is all I use for laying mines.

Joe, how about in your preferences there is a "Message to attach to mines" field. Users could then set a standard message the want to put, obviously this field would benefit from your swear word filter I think..

That way the process could stay as it is with the system doing a quick look up.

And it would also allow us to change the message if we so wanted.

I guess the idea here is we could add a preference for just about anything.

The concern is the practicality in building these features.

Here's an idea about one click stuff--say if we had it like the old toolbar system. A click on a tool would use it (in its most basic form). However, if you held down click it would bring up a dropdown menu with options for what type of tool you'd want to use. Makes a bit of sense, no? Dunno if it's doable though.

too much work. not enough boom. :)

@nlamothe: mined!

Why couldn't think idea work like the old crates used to. Where the crate appeared and you could enter text or just hit "stash"? Or fish fondlers idea wasn't bad at all. Make it automated almost.
I don't mine enough to care lol. If I want someone to know something.. I mine them and send a Pmail at the same time. lol.

I think a mine disguised as a crate would be excellent. Oh, look, a crate...you open it up...bammo!

LOL
@obthundersnot
Fun idea! Really, really like it! :)

Back when crates could contain links, I used to lay crates with a link that looked like this. Booby trapped!

Wow...either I was on the same wavelength with GameLayers or my crate-mine suggestion was taken seriously. Or perhaps it was brought up 100 times before I did...lol.

@obthundersnot We've been trying to get exploding crates since like...April or something...it's been a long time coming!