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Party Health Bar

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like other online games when u party u can see the health and mp bar of your party members. what u think?

I would think: why? What is added benefit of having this information available? And what are the potential problems?

 

The benefit as I see it would be minor. In PVP, partying with people is uncommon (or, at least the party is used just for preventing damage on eachother). It might be useful to see your mates health and mana to give support to them, but you can already clearly see which person is being attacked, those are the ones you need to heal anyway. In PVE, I don't see any benefit. In Helbreath, the monster can only attack 1 person and you can clearly see which one the monster is attacking. For example, a TW attacks someone, all the support mages would heal him already. A HP bar would add no extra information.

 

The problems:

- Alot of extra information (relatively) would be send across the network, increasing lag and bandwidth problems.

- Because the max party is 8, there would be need for room for 8 of these HP/MP bars on your screen, in addition with the name of the party member to which the HP/MP bar set belongs to. Because HB runs on 640x480, there is no good amount of room without interfering in gameplay.

 

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