wowgetoffyourcellphone Posted 7 hours ago Share Posted 7 hours ago 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.). 1 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
guerringuerrin Posted 5 hours ago Share Posted 5 hours ago 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. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wowgetoffyourcellphone Posted 3 hours ago Author Share Posted 3 hours ago 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. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Deicide4u Posted 1 hour ago Share Posted 1 hour ago 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? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
guerringuerrin Posted 1 hour ago Share Posted 1 hour ago 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. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wowgetoffyourcellphone Posted 1 hour ago Author Share Posted 1 hour ago 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? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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