0011295: UI Suggestion: Mini-map - DEV Arcen

ID	Project	Category		Date Submitted	Last Update

0011295	Skyward Collapse	Suggestion		May 5, 2013 3:55 pm	Jun 13, 2013 10:59 am

Reporter	Mick	Assigned To	Chris_McElligottPark
Status	closed	Resolution	no change required

Summary	0011295: UI Suggestion: Mini-map
Description	Please add a mini-map that I can use to navigate around the world. Something simple like a colored dot for every military unit and a bright colored square for each town. With green squares for terrain (different shades of green to represent different terrain types if you wanted to get super fancy). It would be quite useful since between turns you need to jump back and forth between the towns so much, and scrolling can be a bit slow.
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Internal Weight	Feature Suggestion

zharmad May 6, 2013 3:28 am reporter ~0031878	Admiral's suggestion about keyboard-commands is a possible replacement to the minimap, and probably much quicker to implement in the current timeframe. Would adding buttons to jump to red and blue buttons be sufficient?

Shumbok May 7, 2013 1:21 pm reporter ~0031969	I think that would be enough for smaller and medium rounds, but in larger round with 80+ Turns it doesnt help that much. Maybe i've you could cyle through the Town Centers with this buttons. one click first center, two click second one build, and so on.

Mick May 9, 2013 6:12 am reporter ~0032031	I don't think adding buttons to jump around is quite enough. When you get later in the game, the map gets very large. In my current game, my map is very thin and long, and I find it very frustrating doing the blue turn because I have to scroll..scroll..scroll to get to their latest town to build anything. Really, I don't think it needs to be fancy at all, just having it show the shape of the landmass while letting you click to navigate on it would be enough. Don't really need to show units, showing just the colors of the town centers would be a bonus.

Chris_McElligottPark May 20, 2013 11:39 am administrator ~0032481	* Added a new "Allow Really Far Zoom" option in the settings menu, which defaults to on. This lets you zoom waaay out, where the text of each city is much more apparent since everything else is so small. In a lot of respects this serves as the minimap that people have been looking for, as well as a way to take a screenshot of most of (if not all) of your floating world.

Chris_McElligottPark Jun 13, 2013 10:59 am administrator ~0032883	Between the really far zoom and the filters, I think we're good on here. A minimap is not something I feel like is in the cards.

Date Modified	Username	Field	Change
May 5, 2013 3:55 pm	Mick	New Issue
May 6, 2013 3:26 am	zharmad	Relationship added	related to 0011317
May 6, 2013 3:28 am	zharmad	Note Added: 0031878
May 7, 2013 12:45 pm	tigersfan	Internal Weight	=> Feature Suggestion
May 7, 2013 12:45 pm	tigersfan	Status	new => considering
May 7, 2013 1:21 pm	Shumbok	Note Added: 0031969
May 9, 2013 6:12 am	Mick	Note Added: 0032031
May 9, 2013 7:31 am	SRombauts	Relationship added	related to 0011376
May 9, 2013 7:33 am	SRombauts	Relationship added	related to 0011402
May 20, 2013 11:39 am	Chris_McElligottPark	Note Added: 0032481
May 20, 2013 11:39 am	Chris_McElligottPark	Assigned To	=> Chris_McElligottPark
May 20, 2013 11:39 am	Chris_McElligottPark	Status	considering => feedback
Jun 13, 2013 10:59 am	Chris_McElligottPark	Note Added: 0032883
Jun 13, 2013 10:59 am	Chris_McElligottPark	Status	feedback => closed
Jun 13, 2013 10:59 am	Chris_McElligottPark	Resolution	open => no change required
Apr 14, 2014 9:28 am	Chris_McElligottPark	Category	Suggestion - General Idea => Suggestion - General
Apr 14, 2014 9:30 am	Chris_McElligottPark	Category	Suggestion - General => Suggestion