QW-Group
REQ: Show more than 4 characters in team names on the scoreboard
Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe.
We play in the QuakeWorld MIX League where team names are mint, violet, yellow and so on. Many of these exceed 4 characters, and while modern QuakeWorld supports team names longer than 4 characters, only the first 4 characters are displayed in the scoreboard. (You can see the full team name on the HUD.)
This causes confusion among players who don't know whether they should go in team yell or team yellow. We settled on the latter, but this isn't immediately obvious.
Describe the solution you'd like
Show more than 4 characters in team names by default (at least 6, ideally 8). We should have enough width in the scoreboard to do this in 2025 🙂
Additionally, if the team name is too long to fit, a . or right arrow character could be appended to show that it's being truncated somehow, as there's no indication of this happening currently.
Describe alternatives you've considered
We could use short team names but the opposite problem would occur: some players would enter the full team name, expecting it to be what they should enter to join the team.
Additional context
N/A
Impact on server or mods
None
