map -> scale and measuring tool

[gozer]

two suggestions:

 

1) map deffinitely needs visible scale, if possible one that changes with zoom levels. It is really annoying having to alt-tab out of the game and go to online map every time I want to find out distances.

 

2) it would be really great to add some form of simple measuring tool. Select two points on map and it tells you distance between them. Nothing fancy, no waypoints or course plotter, just straight distance how far point X is from point Y.

[jodgi]

In the mean time, do this as a quick fix so you don't have to alt-tab, but just bring up steam overlay.

Note: The latest version of Siggi's map has some form of scale not shown on the pic in the post.

Edited January 26, 2016 by jodgi

[gozer]

In the mean time, do this as a quick fix so you don't have to alt-tab, but just bring up steam overlay.

Note: The latest version of Siggi's map has some form of scale not shown on the pic in the post.

 

really cool looking maps, thanks for the tip

 

right now I'm using online map for measuring distance, and for now I'll probably stick with it because it also allows for sort-of waypoints. But both alt-tabing from game and/or using Steam overlay really breaks immersion (although I admit the map in steam overlay less so). That is why I'd like to have scale and measuring tool in the game map.

 

Hopefully showing the scale somewhere in the corner of map shouldn't be too big of a problem to implement (and having any sort of map without scale is just really wrong), just something that would allow us to roughly eyeball short distances.

 

As for the measuring tool, while I hope that devs would later add a few more tools for navigation and course planning, the simple measuring tool would give player enough information for longer distances cases where guesstimating the distance based on map scale isn't good enough. As I said, nothing advanced, just straight line distance between two points on map.