I would really like to see the extend of the fog of war on the minimap, like in for example Dota2. Would be a great feature/mod imo.
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And please, remove resources from General Map. In maps like Nomad it is really messy
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Never played Dota2. Could you explain what you mean? I dont really understand your idea (probably because my lack of experience with Dota2).
You know there are more settings of the mini map? Maybe you have to toggle to another type of minimap?
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No man, I’m sayin that resources make the general view too messy. If I want to see only units (eco and military) I can’t. If I want to se clearly the resources I have the economic map filter, but in the general view is annoying…
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Areas explored on the minimap but currently in the fog of war (no vision in the shadow) are in a different shade on the minimap.
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Yes, I remember this feature. It was present in Age of Mythology and Age of Empires 3
I hope it comes back, it made easy monitoring raids
If we’re talking about raids this feature should be implemented in AoE I because the AI attacks from all sides in the original and it becomes hard to manage everything unless you have 600 APM.
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there’s mods that make the minimap more readable as well if yall didnt know about them… i have so many mods installed…
Mods Single - Age of Empires this kind of stuff
fyi, i think there’s only a certain % that actually wants the resources removed… i find it incredibly useful being able to see res on the general map
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Most people, in most orders of things don’t figure that it needed something until it has it 11
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What you suggest certainly is an improvement, but I think there’s margin for betterment. Besides, it would be neat if the developing team added official support to these features so that players don’t depend on the availability of the mod
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Yes, this feature would be very helpful in AoE 1 too but, for some reason, the developers tinker with that game a lot less than with AoE 2. I don’t know if it is due to the code being harder to work with, or not profitable because of how much more popular AoE 2 is. For example, unit stances were added only this past summer
It makes more sense to try this expanded minimap feature with AoE 2 because the devs are used to trying new things, they continuously do so and the player base that could benefit from implmenting it is much bigger.
devs have only so much time, what to spend it on? removing res from the map and somehow still making it usable?
simpler to just rely on mods of those kind of personal preference things
and devs can rather spend their time on fixing bugs and pathing
This would honestly make outposts worth it
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Definitely, pro players only use them every now and then, mostly when pushing to lift fog of war from what they are looking at, but not for surveillance or raid prevention in the early game
please make this append aom has it, aoe4 has it, sc2 has it aoe2 de deserve to have it even capture have it.
It will be suck a cool feature!!