Game Mechanics [+Poll]Accessibility Feature: Lootrunning for colour blind people - More ways to distinguish beacons

Greetings,

the lootrun camps have added a exciting new activity for late-game.
Sadly there are people that can't distinguish between colours easily.

This leaves them at a disadvantage when trying to choose the correct beacons to aid them in their run.

I have two suggestions for the lootrun beacons:

1. Provide a way for people to determine the correct beacon (colour) without actually looking at the colour.
Options:
[OPTION 1]- When the explanation for the beacons appear in chat it also displays the coordinates of said beacon
[OPTION 2] - Add a secondary way to differentiate beacons, for example multiple rays of beacons (not a good option, since that would add to clutter and could negatively impact visibility of beacons behind eachother)

2. Display the active beacon challenge
- When walking into a challenge it currently displays the specific type like "SPELUNK" etc. in the middle of the screen. If there was also the mention of the beacon colour chosen in chat, or at least displayed in the objective tracker with the current objective that would propably be nice.


Is there something like this in the works or do these ideas seem feasible?

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The focus of this post lies on the first suggestion.
If you have other ideas on how to make beacons stand out from one another be sure to post them here ^^

Ideas I personally have discarded / deemed bad / have doubts on how feasible they are
- Beacons of different length (problem of visibility)
- Beacons with colour patterns (conflicts with the clearity of beacon colours, necessitate good visibility, might not be possible with the moving beacons)
- A different signifier like particle patterns (drastic change + problem of visibility)

 

I think if you could track specific beacons with the compass, or anything really, then that would fix the issue. +1 For the general idea though, kindof a big oversight. (Add poll so I can vote yes)

 

I think the simplest way to solve this would be if you click on a beacon in chat, all the other beacons turn off.

Not having coords gives a navigation challenge that I don't think should be removed.

 

Good idea, +1
Add a poll

 

Added a poll, since people asked. I did not do so initially since I did not know what even to put as options but ... there you go.
If you have a better idea for poll options just tell me.

 

Why not also have the name of the cave/challenge as part of the beacon choices in-chat as well

 

Not sure how useful this would end up being in practice, but I had this thought:
Since each beacon uses it’s own 3D model, wouldn't it technically be possible to give each beacon its own shape? Some could be jagged, some could have rings around them, or be reminiscent of a sine-wave or something.
With the right know-how and some time in blockbench I think anyone could create a colour blind friendly resource pack right now, infact.
(This would also affect normal non-lootrun beacons, like white beacon being used for tracking discoveries too, but i feel like thats not a *huge* deal/could be easily circumvented if it was made by the ct by simply having 2 white beacon models, 1 for lootruns and 1 normal.)

 

If anything this could be a wynntils feature

 

the challenges are not named ingame as of this current moment sooo

 

Well, the non-cave ones aren't

Shouldn't be too hard to give them names though

 

thx for poll, you could add the options "yes (option 2)" and "yes (option 3)" (which would be display the active beacon challenge)