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Leora

MapMaker Skill!

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The most difficult part about game map exploration is, as soon as you move several squares away, you no longer have orientation because landmarks are not shown on the map in game. Obviously Medieval times didn't have GPS devices. But, they did have quills and paper and map makers. I think it would greatly improve the overall experience of the game if there was a Mapmaker skill. The player could create their own map. It would start out looking like the main map already in game. But as they explore, they could be noting on the map where additional landmarks are as they discover them.

 

Essentially how it could work is like this:

 

A player would first acquire a Quill Pen, and a MapPage (container).

 

A quill could be crafted with:

*A carving knife

*Feather or Reed

(note: it wouldn't be usable until it was filled with ink)

 

An ink bottle might be crafted with:

silver lump

Small anvil

Hammer

or

Tin Lump

Small anvil

Hammer

 

Ink would be crafted with:

*charcoal (cooking wood in a furnace like you would a lump until it turns to coal)

*1 Egg

*Honey

 

A Quill Pen could be crafted with:

Quill

Ink

 

A MapPage would be crafted with:

Wood Scraps

Water

Furnace

Frying pan

 

They would then be able to activate Quill Pen and use it on the MapPage. A successful attempt would cause A prompt to open asking for a map notation for the square they are standing on. I suggest limiting the notation to about say 20 letter spaces. This would then drop an item(Notation) in the MapPage container which specifies the note and square coordinates.

 

Right clicking the MapPage in inventory would have an option to view map. Once selected the world map could be displayed with all previously created notations displayed on a grid overlay, pulling the data from each Notation item in the MapPage container.

 

Thanks for reading!

 

If you like this idea and want to support it, leave a comment! :D

 

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And, and we could have a map with in game grid on it, also, all major highways named! That would be amazing.

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8 hours ago, Annyil said:

It would be nice!
But this is a map made by player: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1EbliOmfbWcK1zhD4t4iYU-Dc18eEr7ZB/edit    :)
 

 

I know this map, but its maintainer refuses the pleas of players to put in game grid on it (all other islands have it as it makes life a lot easier), even as option, not to mention that what he puts there depends on entirely on his whim, therefore many important things, especially road names, are not on it because of some bogus reasons (e.g. in-game grid is not on because "it is too big"). Map making skill would remove these problems and map quality would improve. 

Edited by Platyna

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already have ingame map with notations and server map dumps, also community maps and kingdom maps, sure add more maps.

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If locations are noted down automatically by the game then this can be used as a gps. You just note down a location and where it appears on the map it's your location.

 

What would be good is to extend the annotation system a little to allow for more annotations and creating actual maps that you can sell to others.

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