Always showing oil resources

[HolyKronos]

As long as it is toggle-able, as an integral aspect of randomly generated maps is scouting.

That is an interesting point. When we get randomly generated maps, we should be able to turn this off from the map settings somehow.

Edit: Maybe. I am unsure of this. I think I would still prefer to know where expansions are. And I think it would be too much work to support this from AIs as an option.

I don't know exactly what mechanisms we use for show things in the minimap, but I've perceived that what appears in the minimap is related to what is visible on the screen. To summarize my thoughts about this feature, it would be something good if:

• 1 - The oil resources only shown in the minimap
  2 - The oil resources status updates only when a sensor detects it - this should make the "visible derricks buildings" problem cease, and the detection of the enemy base in 4-8 player maps

[Zarel]

1 - The oil resources only shown in the minimap

But you said yourself what appears on the minimap should appear on the screen. o_O

2 - The oil resources status updates only when a sensor detects it - this should make the "visible derricks buildings" problem cease, and the detection of the enemy base in 4-8 player maps

...yes, Per already said he was working on fixing this.

[HolyKronos]

1 - The oil resources only shown in the minimap

But you said yourself what appears on the minimap should appear on the screen. o_O

What I really meant here is that the screen view (or sensors) don't shown the oil resources right at the beggining of the game (which would imply that I could see whether it has been reclaimed by someone or not).

I would state too that while this feature is not fixed, it makes rather unpleasant games, because as Dylan said in this post:

The feature is nice and I support the intention, but please, my enemies' derricks disappear from my minimap when they build on them, and it's blatantly obvious that they've built derricks there.

And this wrecks the unprediction of the strategy, allowing you to know the enemy pace and advance.

[Per]

Yes, I am working on it.