skusmc 10 Posted January 26, 2014 (edited) Specifically to put in your gear or vehicle so you or your friends can have a chance to hunt it back down if you or your camp is looted. These exist in real life, and you can embed them in your valuables to help the police track them down if need be. It could add some great scenerios for gameplay. Obviously each device should have a locator specifically pared with it, so anyone with a generic locator wouldn't be able to find any other tracker. The game could have a mechanic for finding a tracker embeded in an object if that object is searched throughly. So a thief could, for example, probably find a tracker embedded in an M4 a relatively easily, but something larger with more hiding places like a car may not be found so easily. A found tracker could be set anywhere so the thief could then send their pursuers on a wild goose chase or even set up an ambush. There's the problem that it wouldn't work with gear on a peson who's logged out, but if that person did happen to log back in you could get a message like "your locator just pinged" show up on your screen. If done properly it could add a chance for justice and cool revenge/ambush scenerios. Edited January 26, 2014 by Jean Claude van Sam 2 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
ImmunePower 26 Posted January 26, 2014 Definitely, I think it would spark a revenge in the game. It also would be better than just killing people for fun and it would have a bigger purpose in killing them. 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
TomJeff 12 Posted January 26, 2014 I don't see why you should disable the ability of others to detect your radio signal. Its a radio signal. GPS should be right out. Satellites simply wouldn't function after a month without earthside intervention. (orbit adjustments are constantly being made) Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
skusmc 10 Posted January 26, 2014 It's hard to tell if GPS would still work. The satellites would still be up.Radio transponders attuned to very specific wavelengths and frequencies have been used for a long time in all different types of applications. There's no reason to think that someone would pick up or notice the very specific signal you're looking for.http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radio-frequency_identification Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
n.mettala@gmail.com 5 Posted January 26, 2014 GPS is already coming, if ain't wrong!? Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
valtsuh 68 Posted March 17, 2014 good idea but it might be too easy to track people, if the tracker would show only closest radio towers then it would be more harder to find people or bases, and then you have to search the area. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
