Thread: Maps in 2.0

Originally Posted by Signy

It will be even better if we have to sketch our own maps while we travel.

KC Green is a national treasure.

Originally Posted by JakeRoon

*Goes to the store to purchase a map*

"hey shop keeper this map is blank!"

"Yeah you have to fill it in as you go."

"Well I kinda need to know where I am going...can I just get a filled in one?"

"Sure you can do this long quest (with no map to help) or pay me 473840823048023 dollars for one."

"OR...I could just go look it up on google...thanks ..bye."

That's all anyone is going to do if maps are not pre-drawn...welcome back to FFatlas, or FFwiki to get the map...

Such a dumb waste of time.

heres the point jake... BUYING or QUESTING the map is different then just being HANDED the map.. it would be different if we have to buy the maps right now.. well we dont.. they are just given to us as if some rich person just bought them all for me and handed them over.. as well as the other 500k adventurers in this game.

Filling in the map is the same as discovering and remember the map yourself however not being handed the map up front before i ever set foot in that area or get it from someone else.

Heres a concept sort of like yours..

"goes to the store and buys FFXIV"

"hey shop keeper, I have to start at level 1 and beat this game myself?"

"Yeah you lazy *&^% howabout you do something for yourself instead of expecting it all be done for you!"

"But why couldnt this game have been beat for me before i bought it? All im going to do now is look up how to beat everything on google and then eventually just Youtube all the cutscense, what a waste of time!"

Your point is flawed.

こんにちは。
Hello,

初めて訪れた場所の地図は白紙状態で、自分が通ったところが表示されていくようなオートマッピング機能についてですが、現在検討が進められており、マップ改修とあわせ実装できるよう対応を行う予定になっています。
This is regarding auto-mapping where areas you arrive for the first time will be blank, and gets filled in as you walk; right now we are currently looking into this and with the overall map changes we are planning to get this implemented.

ただし皆さんも仰っているように、エオルゼアにはアイアンハートというエオルゼア全図を完成させた人物が存在します。彼の足跡をたどることで地図が開けていくなど、世界設定についても破綻の無いよう対応を行いますのでご安心ください。
However some of you already know in Eorzea their is a person named Ironhart who completed the Eorzea's map so we will make it where it doesn't break the world settings and where your path will open his path.

もちろんアチーブメント機能とも連動し、初めてエリアに到着！とか、エリアのすべてを歩いた！とかの項目も用意して、冒険をしながら新たな道を歩いていくといったようなことが可能になるようにしていきます。
We will also make it interact with the achievement system and make achievements such as "Arrived to new area for first time!" or "Walked through every area" so it will add new accomplishments as you adventure.

どうぞご期待ください
Please look forward to it

http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/t...l=1#post338937

Originally Posted by Morticous

heres the point jake... BUYING or QUESTING the map is different then just being HANDED the map.. it would be different if we have to buy the maps right now.. well we dont.. they are just given to us as if some rich person just bought them all for me and handed them over.. as well as the other 500k adventurers in this game.

Filling in the map is the same as discovering and remember the map yourself however not being handed the map up front before i ever set foot in that area or get it from someone else.

Heres a concept sort of like yours..

"goes to the store and buys FFXIV"

"hey shop keeper, I have to start at level 1 and beat this game myself?"

"Yeah you lazy *&^% howabout you do something for yourself instead of expecting it all be done for you!"

"But why couldnt this game have been beat for me before i bought it? All im going to do now is look up how to beat everything on google and then eventually just Youtube all the cutscense, what a waste of time!"

Your point is flawed.

Oh you TOTALLY owned me in that one... because you know....ppl never buy fully completed maps to travel in a place they've never visited before.....ever.

I mean , we show up in clothes too, with a tool. Should we arrive naked and unarmed? Where did that stuff come from? Geezus Rice are you guys now telling me that it makes no sense that a traveler in Eorzea might purchase maps to assist him on his journey before they set out?

Originally Posted by Mushy

I want an awesome map. have it 3d with exaggerated icons of towns and caves, settlements and misc hot spots, when you mouse over them they light up more and get bigger with a provided big tool tip about what you have found in the region, whether it be beastiary or ores dug up

I really like this idea, although somehow I don't think they would put that much time and effort into the map.

Originally Posted by JakeRoon

*Goes to the store to purchase a map*

"hey shop keeper this map is blank!"

"Yeah you have to fill it in as you go."

"Well I kinda need to know where I am going...can I just get a filled in one?"

"Sure you can do this long quest (with no map to help) or pay me 473840823048023 dollars for one."

"OR...I could just go look it up on google...thanks ..bye."

That's all anyone is going to do if maps are not pre-drawn...welcome back to FFatlas, or FFwiki to get the map...

Such a dumb waste of time.

You are talking about FF11 though where some of the maps where ridiculously hard to get, WoW has auto mapping and you don't see people running off to the internet to look up maps because the quests system is designed to send you there and explore the world.

I would quite welcome this, it would show me where I have and haven't' been and I would be more likely to go exploring when I get bored or have nothing to do.

Also the 2.0 maps look a lot more interesting so I expect exploration to be a lot more worthwhile and exciting. (I can only hope that with zones though we don't get ridiculous level 70+ mobs standing in the way)

P.s. This is not real life, we are computer generated "adventurers", I am not an adventurer in real life so don't expect to fill in my own map.