PA ALPHA feedback - Mini map suggestion

Hi all,

This is just a thought but i think it could work. Keep the current functionality of zooming out and navigating the globe by spinning it etc.

What i would like to see is an typical mini map window in one of the corners of the screen (Maybe add it as a feature to be enabled by the user).


This mini map would be able to zoom in only so far and allow you to rotate the planet selecting a spot to view or send units you could not zoom all the way to the ground as this could badly affect performance.

this could zoom out though to the solar view to allow you to zoom on other planets and give orders etc. at the moment navigating the planet is not quick and leaving my base to rotate is not great in my own opinion. But again im sure your working on something.

ultra quick example. (Photoshop quality this aint).



Regards
Joe

I actually love the idea of a zoomable minimap in the corner that you can rotate much like the actual screen only you can only zoom in and out to really small levels (as to not create a whole second screen of the game = lag).

There are no plans for a "traditional" minimap. However there is tech that will basically allow you to do picture in picture. So you can make your own minimaps if you wanted. Or you could have 3 windows open with 3 different Planets controlling 3 different Armies of yours.

This was covered during a couple of the UberEnt PA Twitch lives streams.

this is planned

Looks good to me. That would be really useful... not too sure when enemy is approaching.

I know something is in the works but honestly i have to say i would prefer something along the lines of my OP to multiple windows.

That just my opinion because even if you have a beast of a machine and this game is nice and refined at launch and its out of alpha/beta, having multiple windows(instances) of the game will surely have a bigger impact on the performance of your system?.

Maybe it wont, i am not saying that it will have a negative impact on the game i am simply saying it makes sense in my mind that it would impact performance.

I would maybe even just like to see it as a feature to be enabled by users like a "World View" setting in "Gameplay settings" and a dropdown with "Multiple windows" or "Traditional Mini-map" for selection.

to the expand on my original idea.... you could have the mini-map as i stated in OP and along the top of the mini-map their could be tabs, once you have units on another planetary body it would show a new tab to select like

"P1/P2/P3/P4/M1/A1/A2"

P=Planet
M=Moon
A = Asteroid
etc

If a planetary body is under attack the tab could flash red, if you lose a planet the respective tab grays out and is removed after a predetermined time.

Ill wait to see what they come up with and don't expect them to change anything to appease little ol me. But even if they do have something in the pipeline i just want to give food for thought and share my own ideas.

Regards
Joe