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In multiplayer people tend to say "here" and "there" a lot in the chat. Naturally it gets confusing what they are talking about.

Existing multiplayer games solve this by map pings. Basically a small player placed indicator that is placed on the map to mark a spot for a minute or so.

Having something like `/ping` in the chat, that turns in to a link for other players to click, would be useful, especially if mods could also utilise the feature when printing to console.

Ping is a misleading name for that.

Added to viewtopic.php?f=80&t=4682 Planning (Signs, Cloning, Ghosts, Blueprinting and more...)
Some suggestions there are about the same:
viewtopic.php?f=6&t=24213 Map Markers
viewtopic.php?f=6&t=24047 Multiplayer marker function

It's what other games call the feature.

I like Marker, cause I think that is, what we can do in the end: We write with a marker on the map. We draw lines just with the mouse. We make an X on the map and say "All come to the X for biter hunting." Much more natural.

So basically overlay a whiteboard on top of the map? I duno. Manually marking things is more effort and does not suggest itself to an automatic removal.

This was implemented a while ago.