I think the chicken radar symbols could be better. Right now some of the chicken radar symbols are overloaded with radar symbols from bot factories and themselves.
Chicken (unit),
Digger, and
Glaive have the same symbol.
Spiker and
Ronin have the same symbol.
Cockatrice and
Thug have the same symbol.
Lobber and
Sling have the same symbol.
Sporeshooter,
Spidermonkey, and
Recluse have the same symbol.
Basilisk and
Hermit have the same symbol.
Blobber and
Racketeer have the same symbol.
Blimpy and
Raven have the same symbol.
Tiamat and
Paladin have the same symbol.
Dodo and
Puppy have the same symbol.
Blooper and
Aspis have the same symbol.
White Dragon and
Chicken Queen have the same symbol.
This is notable because in a mixed chicken match where a side has both chickens and bots the action is a lot harder than usual to follow. For example these matches
http://zero-k.info/Battles/Detail/486440 http://zero-k.info/Battles/Detail/486442 .
Lore wise, I can't figure out a justification why bots would mistake either mistake chickens for bots or not specially denote every chicken since they are such a large threat. Chickens seem to be organic because they bleed, but not enough research has been done on them to confirm.
My proposed solution is to create a chicken series set of radar symbols that are totally distinct from the current bot radar symbols. What would be appropriate to symbolize chickens? Why eggs of course. Chickens in game drop eggs when they are killed.
There are a couple ways to get the egg design and turn it into the base radar symbol. The best way would be to to get the existing in game egg shape and filter it so it looks like a radar symbol. The cheapest way would be to process this free clipart
https://openclipart.org/detail/6695/white-egg into a radar symbol.
The only other issue would be doubles of the same radar symbol on multiple chickens. We can treat them the same way we treat the amphbots and give them two different sets of radar symbols that are distinct from the bot factories. There is a second radar symbol class for chickens. It is the chicken queen variation. I don't think it is the right variation for most of the other chickens, but that is just my aesthetic preference.
Who would do the work? I can make the radar symbols, I don't know if I can build the game with new symbols because I haven't tried yet.
