Exploration and Mapping

Rhuric

I've gone down the rabbit hole that is the wiki and there is so much that I'm loving. One question I have that I haven't found an answer to yet is whether or not players will be able to create Maps of their own to sell to other adventurers that would lift the fog of war in an area they may not have explored yet.

I did read about Treasure Hunting and the maps involved aren't really about displaying Points of Interest from non-treasure related things. I'm more interested in an information broker aspect, selling maps of an area that might list things like dungeons, nodes, creatures, etc. With each world server being unique there will (hopefully) be a lot less metagaming and more people looking to other players in-game for information on things like boss-tactics or exploration.

Will players, preferably those in the scribe professions, be able to make detailed maps? If not, is that something that you would like to see? What do you all think.

Songcaller

In the old days there were rumours of map makers and map sellers. However, I haven't heard anything about it in recent months. At first, we used to joke about making fake maps and maps that would send you into ambushes. I can't be sure if the map making idea has been scrapped or not.