Birdseye View Improvement Brainstorming

[wowgetoffyourcellphone]

Perhaps in "Birdseye View", the structure portraits can show up like this for a true strategic overview. Almost as if the whole screen becomes a kind of huge minimap or strategic map. Portraits at 64x64 px and with a 2 px stroke around them of player color (on the left you see white for gaia player color) and a 1 px black stroke around that.

 

I would also suggest the status bars show up by default too and that we put a button by the minimap (in addition to the hotkey) to toggle this. 

 

We could possibly go further by adding icons for other things, like berries and huntables, perhaps at a smaller size (48x48?). Huntables genericized to a meat icon instead of their individual icons (deer, etc.). 

[guerringuerrin]

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I love the idea. I would make it optional, with a toggle in the settings, so as not to force a feature that could be negative for some players or in certain contexts.

[wowgetoffyourcellphone]

1 hour ago, guerringuerrin said:

I love the idea. I would make it optional, with a toggle in the settings, so as not to force a feature that could be negative for some players or in certain contexts.

I see no case where this wouldn't be useful in birdseye view by default. Perhaps allow it to be toggled OFF, sure, but I think the only real reason to use birdseye view would be to get a strategic view of things and this would assist in that.