15 replies to this topic

[mytilus edulis]

You can leave them at the same zoom level and icons, but bring back the old minimap images. They were so much easier to read.

Left side is old, right side is new.

[pbiggz]

i'd definitely support this. the minimap changes were a step back.

[D V Devnull]

If we're going to do this, then PGI's Engineers for MWO also need to do one additional thing. They need to restore the Directional Arrows for people who are on the Same Team during battle. There have been too many times that I could have dodged Friendly Fire if I just could have seen which way all of my Teammates were pointed!

~D. V. "Whatever happens to the MiniMap at this point, those Friendly Directional Arrows need to be restored!" Devnull

[Meep Meep]

I second, third and fourth this!

[mytilus edulis]

Yeah I agree about friendly direction arrows returning

[PocketYoda]

I agree 100%.

[Duke Falcon]

Minimap were so cool and usefull then PGI just changed it?!
It really should be revert then. Ask them for the Xmas patch's extra "present for dear players"?

[martian]

Duke Falcon, on 01 December 2021 - 08:43 AM, said:

Minimap were so cool and usefull then PGI just changed it?!
It really should be revert then. Ask them for the Xmas patch's extra "present for dear players"?

Yeah, those old minimaps used to be different.

... and then some nameless PGI employee decided to fix what was not broken.

[D V Devnull]

martian, on 01 December 2021 - 09:05 AM, said:

... and then some nameless PGI employee decided to fix what was not broken.

Oh... Some of us know that person's name, then seethe with rage every time we think about them, and it's NOT the one on the News Article itself who's at fault. We would shoot down the Mech of that person-at-fault on the battlefields if we saw them on the Enemy Team ever again. I still have a batch of Streak SRMs (and another batch of the LRM type) with the name of that person-at-fault printed in a nice font on the explosive warheads, simply in order to deliver maximum humiliation and communicate that I know what they did. My group of Mech Maintenance Techs still want to load them for firing, but we're waiting for that target to finally show up.

~D. V. "Some of us know who messed up the MiniMap so indefensibly horribly badly, and we will never forget." Devnull

[Nesutizale]

I support the motion to a more readable map.

[martian]

D V Devnull, on 01 December 2021 - 11:13 AM, said:

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My group of Mech Maintenance Techs still want to load them for firing, but we're waiting for that target to finally show up.

I can not even remember when was the last time when I saw a player with "PGI" tag in the game.

[Ekson Valdez]

This thread has been moved to Feature Suggestions

[mytilus edulis]

D V Devnull, on 30 November 2021 - 03:49 PM, said:

If we're going to do this, then PGI's Engineers for MWO also need to do one additional thing. They need to restore the Directional Arrows for people who are on the Same Team during battle. There have been too many times that I could have dodged Friendly Fire if I just could have seen which way all of my Teammates were pointed!

~D. V. "Whatever happens to the MiniMap at this point, those Friendly Directional Arrows need to be restored!" Devnull

I do think friendly arrows would also help with reducing nascar

[D V Devnull]

mytilus edulis, on 07 December 2021 - 12:26 AM, said:

I do think friendly arrows would also help with reducing nascar

And they could even do them in tandem with the Weight Class indications, like a blue version of how they do it with Enemy Mech markings, but make Friendly Mechs always have it visible.

~D. V. "Friendly Mech Markers can only improve..." Devnull




(p.s.: By the way, even though I'm merely pulling your mental chain... Y U No 'Like' my previous post? ...)

[mytilus edulis]

pbiggz, on 30 November 2021 - 03:38 PM, said:

i'd definitely support this. the minimap changes were a step back.

do you know when they made all the minimap changes?

[D V Devnull]

mytilus edulis, on 13 December 2021 - 09:45 AM, said:

do you know when they made all the minimap changes?

Yes, we do, and it has been a very long time. I already answered on this Thread with a Link in an earlier post of mine. But let's make it easy to see the details here...

• Date for first set of MiniMap Changes — 2016-06-21
  
• Patch Version for first set of MiniMap Changes — 1.4.73
  
• Article for first set of MiniMap Changes — (click on "New Mini Map and BattleGrid" in the "Quick Links" section)
  >> https://mwomercs.com/news/2016/06/1580-patch-notes-1473-21jun2016 <<
  
• HotFix Notes Date for following changes — 2016-06-22
  
• Estimated (not fully known because it is missing from article) HotFix Patch Version — 1.4.75
  
• HotFix Notes Article for following changes —
  >> https://mwomercs.com/news/2016/06/1583-hotfix-scheduled-for-06222016 <<

...as it so happens they only partially reverted what was done before when providing the HotFix afterward. Sadly, it is unlikely we will ever see things back in a fully reasonable state... Or at least I'm not holding my breath on seeing anything positive happening about this after five years of being thoroughly uncomfortable with it ever happening in the first place.

~D. V. "Here's the info on all of the well-known MiniMap Changes which messed it up." Devnull