Clicking on the mini-map should center the radar view around the point clicked, rather than your person

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Clicking on the mini-map should center the radar view around the point clicked, rather than your person

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Perhaps I've been playing too much C&C, StarCraft, etc. but I seem to habitually expect that when I see an alert icon in the mini map, or want to inspect a certain part of the factory visible on the mini map, that clicking on it in the mini map would accomplish this goal. Instead, I have to zoom-out/pan-x/pan-y/zoom-in, etc.

It would be nice if clicking on the mini-map should center the radar view around the point clicked, rather than your person.

I think this makes sense from a theory perspective too, as the purpose of the radar/map is to see what is distant... not what you are already looking at (absent future plans for an awesome/seamless transition between normal & radar modes).
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Re: Clicking on the mini-map should center the radar view around the point clicked, rather than your person

Post by Ingolifs »

Huh. I never noticed you could do this.

Yes, it seems obvious that you should be able to view on the part of the minimap that you click.
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Re: Clicking on the mini-map should center the radar view around the point clicked, rather than your person

Post by bobingabout »

Yeah, I've clicked the minimap an expected this behaviour in the past too.
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