they did this in just cause 2,and i was wondering if they could do it here,it would be kinda cool to see were everybody likes to hang out. just an idea

please give me your opinions.

What is a hot map?

has a map of the whole game world and is colored from like lets say from green to red. green being the least popular place were players hang,with red being were they are all like to hang.

I think he means a way to track the time spent by other people in a location, an activity mark on a map that changes in colour and size based on the ammount of people in the area and the time they spend in that area. Tracking hotspots of activity or as the game he got the idea from a "hot map". Works great in a multiplayer game like EvE but in a single player game were npc's are rooted to their locations its pretty pointless.

Valve does studies of player activity in Half Life 2 and all source games, showing where people die most, which routes they take through a zone etc. Its quite interesting to see game metrics and compare them to how you play the game though.

Where players like to hang?
I is confused.

Got it.

well,it would only count you,if you are online and signed,it will only track you,not npc's,but i see what you are getting at.

I don't see what usefulness that could possibly have in this game.

You could go visit places where you havent been a lot, more often. That way you can actually be at EVERY spot in the game once.

But yeah, its not really that necessary.

In theory the idea sounds good but I'd rather have that extra data go towards more items and better quests.

I saw what NV has for this in action in one of the latest gameplay previews. It will show a word under the town name in the map which describes how they feel about you. Example, if you blast everyone in Goodsprings, it will show as "Hated" underneath Goodsprtings when you mouse over it.

That's a cool new feature... Thanks for sharing. :celebration: