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Per wrote:The minimap in 3.1 should be exactly as in 2.3.9, and to the extent that it is not, that is a bug. Control over the minimap has been moved to scripts to allow for more customization, so for campaign, it will be buggy until we've managed to port the campaign to javascript, or we add minimap control to the wzscript and manage to fix up all the old scripts. It is a work in progress.

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- ........What would be helpful is if your Combat Groups where identifiable and could be maneuvered on the Mini-Map..

- For example..

- You have 3 Combat Groups: #1, #2 and #3.

- You see those #s on the Mini-Map and can do the following: set-up way points, patrols, coordinated offensive maneuvers from multiple vectors and at varying velocities. Basically, this is how 21st Century RL Military OPs are executed. It's called "C3" for "Communications, Command, and Control". IMHO it would be an elegant way to introduce such a game play mechanic into WZ. You would be re-assembling what's already there and you wouldn't even need a new UI. Neat. ('Course it could be further refined once the UI Widget schema is re-vamped making more feasible Elio's New Command UI prototype / mock-ups...)

- This would also have the side benefit of relieving some of the bogus switch-tasking strain of attending NON-combat tasks while trying to control a major offensive in theater.

As I have said elsewhere -

"I think the switch-tasking excessive when it degrades the battlefield experience of the game which for me is the #1 experience that all other GPMs are building up to and that all features and UI's should serve to enhance."

- Toodles, whip. (4/23/09)

lav_coyote25 wrote:so. i guess it doesn't matter the opinions of the community at large. your just going to go ahead with clone changes.

is it just me or what? the new master has a radar with blips etc and NO command center. the 2.3.9 has no command center and no radar , which after all stands to reason. if you don't have a source of radar, you should have no radar image. giving a radar image without having a Command Center is not a good thing. makes the game , for me at least, lacking incentive. changing the GPM at this stage of the game is STUPID. if your too lazy or stupid to build a command center - you shouldn't be playing this game.

aubergine wrote:I'd certainly be interested in what could be done with minimap from JS scripting perspective. Are there details on the exposed API?

aubergine wrote:@Per: I assume by "current client" you mean the human player on the machine in which the script is running?

Per wrote:The minimap in 3.1 should be exactly as in 2.3.9, and to the extent that it is not, that is a bug. Control over the minimap has been moved to scripts to allow for more customization, so for campaign, it will be buggy until we've managed to port the campaign to javascript, or we add minimap control to the wzscript and manage to fix up all the old scripts. It is a work in progress.