In Game Map, what kind would you prefer or hoping for?

What sort of in game map are you hoping for in Ashes? No, not the world map we have seen for a while now, the in game UI map we get to pull up to see where we are, etc? Have we seen any rendition of this so far?
Do you want a WOW style parchment map?
The GW2 style with multiple color swatches all over the place? I will say I like the way it vanished once you went back into the game.
The BDO style map with cartoony looking trees and stuff?
The old Rift style map which was basically a topographical style map?

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Campfire_Goth

Would love a paper map that shows the full world, like we know the general shape of the landscape and vaguely where certain landmarks are but as you explore the finer details get filled in. Like when you first create your character, it's a generic plain map that shows few roads, cities and landmarks and where-ever you visit and quest; the longer you play in a certain area the more detailed and colorful it gets as you familiarize yourself with the land around you.

Could also be cool that if you were, say, a prominent contributor or ruler in a scientific type node that advances to a city you can unlock a more interact map of the area showing you were specific resources might be located or where hidden paths lay. Or a military node gives a political color coding to your map, indicating what nodes or nations are at war with who and where.

nidriks

Fog of War. Please make the map have a fog of war to make exploration a thing.

I doubt it would be well likd, but I'd actually like to have maps be purchaseable for areas and to have no mini map. I look back to EQ and the EQAtlas website. EQ didn't have ingame maps for a long time and players relied on a beautifully drawn online atlas.

Maybe it is too late,but I would love to see a game like Ashes have some sort of cartographer profession and have players make the maps. Players would then have to buy maps for various areas of the game. To ease players in, starter areas could have maps already (so representing that the area is well known). However, if youw ant to visit a remote area then you might want to buy a map or map the area yourself.

I guess I just want area that one can get lost in.

Vyraka

I don't mind fog of war or not having a mini-map. What I would like to see is some form of a compass overlay in the main UI. It doesn't have to be big, and can be semi-transparent. I'd like to know what direction I am headed without having to go to the map to see what direction my pointer is going.

Balrog21

@nidriks Steven already confirmed there will be a fog of war on the map.

winner909098

CaptnChuck wrote: »

winner909098 wrote: »

Birthday wrote: »

First of all, I'd love it if they make it more immersive.
What I am talking about is mapping progression and buying.
Pros: Money sink, immersion, highly customizable map, one more thing for completionists to be able to show off to others (their map).

Ideas:

-You can explore on your own and exploring will clear out a fog of war on your map. You can draw on your map and have the ability to save it so the drawing stays there forever if you want it to and erase it.

-You can go to a NPC and pay him to copy a section of your map so you can share it with your friends.

-You can buy maps from NPCs and buy upgrades for your map from certain factions.
Examples:
a)Like if you grind reputation with a mining faction, it'll give the ability to buy from them a map of ores which upgrades your maps and gives you rough estimate where you can find ores.

b)Ask a master cartographer to upgrade your map so you can see coordinates on it.

c)You go to a new region and want a little bit of a heads start and by accident find some old man somewhere in a village/forest/cave who was an explorer before the apocalypse so he offers to sell you his old map of the region.

d) Level 3-6 nodes have a NPC who can sell you a basic map of the region/area. (Not much details on it, but enough to give you a head start and an idea.)

The style:
DayZ style map (parchment in our case here) where you gotta find yourself on the map. (Keep in mind that the original idea of DayZ was that you had to find a map first and pick it up in order to have a map.)

instead of NPCs, it should be players who are scribes

Scribing is a profession.

thats what I meant

nidriks

Balrog21 wrote: »

@nidriks Steven already confirmed there will be a fog of war on the map.

Thank you. Probably seen it, but I'm old.

Balrog21

@nidriks me too!

Balrog21

@Jahlon has there been any mention or screen shots of the in game map yet? Or what they are leaning towards for the in game ui map? Not the world map.

Caeryl

The "A Quality World Map" mod for Skyrim has a really nice style of map. Realistic but not overly data-intense. I can image a mostly darkened map as fog of war, showing only metros and areas you've found yourself, or "learned" from maps made by Scribes or Cartographers

Something that looks more like a traditional map wouldn't be out of place, just listing basic geographical landmarks and regions, but letting players make their own markers in addition to adding landmarks players discovered. Even better if players can toggle what's displayed.

Marcet

I like Skyrim map, and the old ARK map too.

Vyraka

I'd like a map with some form of simplified coordinates so that it will be easy to tell my guild mates - "Let's meet at X and Y".

Malapapas

I just want a map that allows us to make our own notes or automatically updates when you find resources/mobs i.e marks an areas that we discovered a rare resource or pack of specific animals/mobs. RDR2 actually does something similar. Many other MMO's inevitably has someone that creates an interactive map online with resource/mob locations but It would be nice to map these on your own, especially considering that AoC's node system may make it difficult for those interactive maps to exist.

TheGoodzilla

I have an idea that has elements I haven't seen mentioned yet along with other suggested ideas. So please ready fully.

Radar map: as seen in game footage, shows very local area with certain things called out like mobs and maybe gatherables

Game map:
Like gw2. Having a sort of "unrevealed" system would actually be enjoyable and help increase the desire for exploration in my opinion. Additionally this could be tied to nodes so that the higher your node level is, the better your map is for that area.

"you are here" - this is where my new suggestion comes in. There is an indie game called Outward. The world map on that game is static, and by that I mean it is just like a real life map. It's an image that doesn't care about where you are or where you want to go.

With this kind of map, the players location has to be determined by comparing the terrain around them to the map. And then of you found a spot on the map you want to return to (say a dungeon entrance) you have to remember where on the map it is located. Then later on you figure out where you are and (using some sort of very minimal in game compass) get your heading so you can proceed to your destination of choice.

I would be interested to hear thoughts on this idea. But also, I think simply copying traditional mmo maps (wow and others) would be a bad idea for this specific game.

Damokles

This is a map that I would like in Ashes:

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Give it a zoom function and I could die happy xD

TheGoodzilla

Agreed. Just add some kind of "fog of war" element. That's all it needs.

Then potentially, just for giggles, allow players to make their own pinned locations and notes if they want. Then if the devs are feeling really wacky, they can design some kind of map sharing option where you can copy another players map.

CROW3

Bethesda does an excellent job with their world maps. I would just err on the side of minimal information, we take A LOT for granted when it comes to scale and accuracy of maps.

Paradoxically

Never seen a map that was better then Dark Souls 1. Everything was perfect, its the gold standard in my eyes.

Valento92

Xenotor wrote: »

A Varaity of different pins i can place on the map.
A way to draw on the map, like a route i want to take.

A way to invite others to watch my map and the ability to have them interact with it.
Every group, raid, guild leader would love this as it would make planing soooo much smother.

Nice idea!

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