Map Table Enhancements - New Markers, Course Plotting, Toggle Visuals

@archaell I could definitely get behind more ways of markings as the game expands, perhaps a "shipwreck" marker. I always see one as I approach an island and forget about them when I leave :(

@targasbr said in Map Table Enhancements - New Markers, Course Plotting, Toggle Visuals:

We could also play Tic tac toe this way...

Great idea! I think we just solved part of the mini-game requests :)

Love these ideas mate!
Also It'd be great if we could look at our contracts while on the map.

@sgt-palooggoo I do not have much issue pulling away from the Map Table to view the Voyages, but I could see the benefit of being able to see the contracts to some degree while looking at the table.

I think this would take quite a bit more to implement though :)

@archangel-timmy great idea mate

@mrphilfy a little notation here or there could be helpful, but I could see nasty messages left by other players.

Love it.

The only thing I would like to see is a few more markers allowed on the table.

Sometimes I use all of them up and I still want to place some markers.

@lord-szarvas True, I have hit the cap many a time when marking additional locations we want to hit. An increase would go well with the proposed changes :)

Another thing that crossed my mind would be making the map table zoom all of the way out. I see another post where someone wants the map scroll speed bound to their controllers sensitivity, but allowing a full view would help alleviate that change as you can zoom in/out pretty easily to focus in.

I suppose limiting the view makes things a small amount for difficult for boarders to search your map, but still.

I love this idea. I've never seen this suggestion either. Very well put togheter!

Glad people are finding interest in the idea. If there are any other ways you would like to expand on it, I will try to add them to the main post when I get a chance.

As per some of the discussion in this thread, I have whipped up a quick mock for a possible Marker Selector Wheel if we could possibly get the option of additional markers. These are just a few that jumped right out with the classic "O" being the default.

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Given that we can track alliances, what about tracking our own rowboat? Once a rowboat attaches to a ship, it becomes bound to that ship to a degree and can be located on the map when detached until it is destroyed, replaced, or attached to another ship?

This would also come in handy for the Cargo Runs which are do to get a boost in value soon, so they will become more relevant. Give us a bump in delivery time, and the map updates would benefit even more!

@archangel-timmy Wouldn't it be simpler to just have color coded O's that match the island? On Xbox at least, you have X,Y,B which match the factions by in game color already (blue - merch, yellow - GH, Red - OoS, Black - MiB/other). Or, just make it so that when you circle a correct island it does it for you and just require multiple circles if the island has multiple contracts.

@galactic-geek said in Map Table Enhancements - New Markers, Course Plotting, Toggle Visuals:

I think treasure locations should become visible on the world map as you collect individual maps - it would give players 1 more reason to infiltrate/protect the ship.

Like in automatically mark the island itself, or more in depth like marking the individual "X" from each map?

The easiest UPVOTE I've ever had to make.

Such a well thought out idea, I have literally no thoughts on how to improve it.
KUDOS!!!

Great idea! You put alot of thought and effort into it! I hope devs implement this and give you a shout out for it. Seems like it wouldn't be that hard for them to do it and its a very nice addition to a otherwise plain map interface.

It would also be a good idea to be able to measure the distance between islands in order to find the most efficient route. I also would like a small indicator of which way the wind is pointing on the map.

@lil-fokker Thank you :)

@drizkillz said in Map Table Enhancements - New Markers, Course Plotting, Toggle Visuals:

@archangel-timmy Wouldn't it be simpler to just have color coded O's that match the island? On Xbox at least, you have X,Y,B which match the factions by in game color already (blue - merch, yellow - GH, Red - OoS, Black - MiB/other). Or, just make it so that when you circle a correct island it does it for you and just require multiple circles if the island has multiple contracts.

The color coordination with the controller is a good idea and may work as a simpler approach, but the "B" is currently the default for backing out of things so some input-swapping would be needed.

I have a feeling more types of voyages will be added outside of the normal sets, so the proposed system would work in the long run and be easily built upon if put in place :)

@galactic-geek said in Map Table Enhancements - New Markers, Course Plotting, Toggle Visuals:

@archangel-timmy The more in-depth version.

I know that Alliance members can dig up your chests if they have an image of your map, does this work for other crews?

Making all of the X-Marks automatically visible on the voyage table would add a whole new way of playing for sure, so I could see some way of getting ahold of another players maps as fun. Minus the Athena, a map that special is held close to the crew!