wowgetoffyourcellphone Posted March 31 Share Posted March 31 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.). 4 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
guerringuerrin Posted March 31 Share Posted March 31 Civilization aura joined the chat 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. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wowgetoffyourcellphone Posted March 31 Author Share Posted March 31 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. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Deicide4u Posted March 31 Share Posted March 31 2 hours ago, wowgetoffyourcellphone said: see no case where this wouldn't be useful in birdseye view by default. See that house on the middle left of the CC? What if I had a couple of builders right where that house portrait covers the house? How annoying it would be if I had to bring the camera down, just to see those builders? 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
guerringuerrin Posted March 31 Share Posted March 31 2 hours ago, wowgetoffyourcellphone said: 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. I know some people (myself included) who use it when designing their base to get a better sense of the spacing between buildings. And having the same icon repeated many times—for example on houses or storehouses, which tend to be numerous and small—could become annoying. I really like the idea! However, having the option to toggle it on and off would be ideal to accommodate both preferences. 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wowgetoffyourcellphone Posted March 31 Author Share Posted March 31 20 minutes ago, Deicide4u said: See that house on the middle left of the CC? What if I had a couple of builders right where that house portrait covers the house? How annoying it would be if I had to bring the camera down, just to see those builders? Is that what you use birdseye view to do? Task builders? 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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