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By Stimson
#33959
Hi all

Would it be possible to add coordinates to the online map? i know that it is fairly easy to find your home given a few landmarkers and general directions, but it can be confusing, i recently found my house but it took about 5 minutes hunting looking what i thought was the right place but wasnt, could a x and z be put on the page so the map will auto-center to whatever you type in?

I decided to just edit my OP instead of posting to avoid double posts.

Basically, Kojaimea got my point exactly when he said overlay a grid to the online map, this wouldnt lag the game because all you are doing is adding x and z coordinates to the online map that correspond to the in-game coordinates. Thus if i asked Spritzo where his giant castle is, i could go to the online map and type x=4800 z=-4700 and the map could center on the castle, kinda like google maps for minerealm where i put in x instead of latitude and z instead of longitude and it takes me where i want to go.

Also it could help if i wanted to relocate to a flat tundra terrain instead of my current one, i could look around the map for a spot that looks good, check out the coordinates, then log on to minerealm and travel there and claim my land.
Last edited by Stimson on Thu Sep 29, 2011 10:55 am, edited 1 time in total.
By BSGSamuel
#33991
I'm pretty sure the OP means the overview map on the website (and I agree it would be a useful feature).
By Prodigy9
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BSGSamuel wrote:I'm pretty sure the OP means the overview map on the website (and I agree it would be a useful feature).
That's how I interpreted it. Somehow I suspect that would take a lot more time and effort than it's worth. That being said, it would be nice to have a couple important locations indicated on the map... just a dot marking the location of each current spawn point, or something like that.
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By Stimson
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Yes i meant the overview map on the website, you press F3 in-game to find the coordinates then go to the website and type in those coordinates and it centers on them. I agree that it isnt the most terribly important or useful thing but it would be a nice addition.
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By cerevox
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IIRC we had something similar when realms first came out. Each realm had a box drawn on the map and a label to show where it was. However it created immense lag so it got dropped.
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By Kojaimea
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cerevox wrote:IIRC we had something similar when realms first came out. Each realm had a box drawn on the map and a label to show where it was. However it created immense lag so it got dropped.
Indeed we did but that overlay had to be updated, I think what the OP is suggesting is a sort of rough Cartesian grid over the top of the map to read the co-ordinates roughly and not necessarily require any updating from the server than is currently happening right now.
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