EVE Information Portal

+ Windowed mode!!!
+ Looks awesome
+ Looks really awesome

- Jump Range Overlay

Love the new map. Rock on.

Marvelous!

I would love if this became my primary mode of navigation.

- Label my home system and jump clones
- Label where I have assets stored
- Label important stations and starbases (corp offices, trade centers, mission hubs)
- Label where my mission is
- Label where my expeditions are going

Well... let me label whatever systems I like, however I like with a set of icons of my choosing. (Plus automatically add mission and expedition stuff).

It'd be so much easier than typing in a system name, auto link, and set waypoint.

How about a wormhole mapping function in combination with proper wormhole bookmarking :>

Medical facilities I have standings to install jump clones in filter please

I love you CCP. With windowed mode, this will make possible immersive navigation that doesn't rely on the overview. I love how you very easily see what celestial groups have a stargate and where it leads. Once this leaves beta, a windowed mini-map should be enabled by default and newbies should be encouraged to use it for navigation in the tutorials.

Will we see a roadmap of the map-specific development plan once Rhea has launched? I have so many dreams for the features you could theoretically implement for this map system in the future...

• Visualization for D-Scan, camera tracking mode, or a transparent overlay option.
The functionality of the current F11 map is coarse but effective. Being able to tell at a glance which direction you need to turn your ship to D-Scan static celestials like stations complements the Compass very nicely. The new map should retain the functionality before it leaves beta.


• Bookmark and Mission markers.
As a newbie I remember missing the "Set destination to mission objective" option, and a personal visual marker would help intuitively orienting yourself in the event that a mission takes place in a different system.


• Fleet, Corp or Alliance-based map markers.
Broadcastable/dynamic map markers would be useful to mark staging systems, campuses, or target systems on a massive scale without having to rely on text messages. When you have multiple Fleet Adverts available, visualizing where they are can help you join the closest one.

Granted, I haven't been able to get onto sisi to test yet, so just basing these comments on what isn't mentioned in the dev blog.

has multi window mode been considered? I would love to have a second eve window instead of having to stretch the whole scene over two monitors.

can you confirm this can be dragged out to a 2nd monitor as it states, or will I need the eve client to stretch over both screens?

You have to stretch it to 2 monitors.

I would love to have a 2D map that works kinda like a continuously scrollable/draggable and zommable version of DOTLAN, so that there is no hard transition between space regions anymore but the flattening is done in such a way (as DOTLAN already does) that all connecting paths are always clearly visible and discernible.

Since gate travel is instant and does not care for true euclidean distance the only important metric to describe EVEs topography is the number of gate jumps between two systems.

People planning travel via jump drives and/or jump bridges could easily use an overlay to mark jump range in 2D.

A 3D map will always be awkward from a usability point of view as long as the positioning of star systems and gate connections in relation to each other and more importantly in relation to the users visual angle stays fixed. In my opinion a good 3D map needs to adjust star positions in real time, in order to avoid occlusions. It seems to me, that this is so much harder to do than a properly flattened 2D map (which would of of cause store and use the real 3D coordinates for calculations such as jump range).