Snackish: pks pks pks. Kilgore: BBS is here, town is safe
Well, I have even better idea Pipboy could be programmable, by players themselfs, as normal computer is.That way it'd lead to make programming market workin and a possibility of adjusting to ones needs :p
Imho pipboy should serve as FOnline's version of quest tracker, friend/foe list, notepad and other stat/skills/quests stuff manager. Also those maps should be shareable but in a certain way. I think revealing whole map square by square by one scout char and then selling it to the rest has no real need and kills "exploration" part of the game. But imho map sharing should work that you can only share certain coords on your map = f.e. you can show someone where the NCR is and that person wil get revealed only the square with the city, but the path to it or anything else will still be covered with fog.
This is not Fallout 3 -_-
Like you had some minimap in your Pip-Boy and clicking the location name would spawn some options like, e.g. share with.. (pressing that) enter the name of PipBoy holder. Im affraid its beyond Fonline capabilities (not?)
Why minimaps? Simply when you want to share your data (another pipboy / faction terminal), then open such data sharing menu. And through this menu we will be able to choose whenever you want to share locations, or your friend/foe list or something else. In case of locations there will be simple list of all circles that you have revealed on your map, sorted by their size/purpose and through simple filter you will find what you need and then highlight it in the list and share. No need for minimaps or fancy stuff like that, when everything can be done via textbox.
Ok, the text and making PipBoy layout would be easy. I think that the biggest problem would be creating a new PipBoy sharing information... hmm or maybe it could use the feature like in Fallout 2, where when you asked some NPC, he/she "showed" the location on the world map. So everything is there to use, nice.
also this things would be useful if you would like to stay in game and decide what weapon/armor/ammo to craft without looking at the wiki.
whats wrong with you man? you cannot use your fix-boy or what?