In multiplayer it would be useful to have some way of highlighting parts of the map for other players. Useful applications could be planning which areas should be scouted or attacked by different players, or as a "Help! I'm under attack" without having to deal with descriptions like west of your kingdom, south of the green player, just above the mountain. Instead the player would be able to send some signal which will light up on other players (preferably allies) minimap displaying where the signal came from. While it would be neat, I am not sure if we currently have a good way of adding it to the minimap. Here are some of my initial suggestions and considerations.
How to do it - why it won't work.
Left-click the minimap - Already used for going to another part of the map, which is (more) useful. Would not want other players to see every time I click somewhere on the map.
Right-click the minimap - As all other windows, it closes. I would prefer to maintain consistency with other windows, and I don't see the minimap as unique or different enough to justify treating it differently.
Hold some button and click at the same time - No. Cumbersome, complex and hard to discover.
Add a button to the minimap - Could work, click a button which activate "notify-mode" and would then notify other players instead of going to an area if you click on the map. Only drawback is, currently we have an even number of buttons in the minimap so adding only one would make the rows unsymmetrical plus it wouldn't look as good and orderly as currently.
Does anyone have any ideas or suggestions which might work?
Maybe it would be an idea to add a link to each chat-message, which brings
you to the place on the map which the writer was viewing when he wrote the message.
This Link could also be manually added to the message by the writer, using a
keyword like \mypos
this wouldn't be as comfortable as using the minimap, but maybe it would
be easier to use and to find a way to implement it.