I like the thumbnail screenshots added for Multiplayer > Quick Play map selection screen. Thanks for adding them, if they’re new. I think they’re quite helpful; wonder if they’re a result of my past feedback asking for screenshot thumbnails? Hope so Figured I’d make a formal suggestion/request now for the Single Player section.
May they be added to the Single Player > Skirmish map selection screen at some point, too? Maybe when rolling your mouse over an artsy thumbnail, it would show a screenshot from the actual map? Additionally, it’d be cool to rotate the thumbnail through different seasons if it can be snow, too, and different gaia/sheep/buffalo/turkeys possibilities it can or will have. Pause each rotation for a second or two.
Here’s the type of functionality that would happen if you hovered over the artistic thumbnail for Cenotes, for example (see screenshot below). Notice the pop-up above it. (Disregard the star icon, as that was from the Multiplayer screen; although I think adding ‘Favorites’ to single-player map selection would be nice. Also disregard the white arrow, of course.)
- The pop-up would be immediate/responsive; no delay or animated unfurling. Pop-up shouldn’t cover up the artistic thumbnail at all, as you may want to study both in-full at the same time:
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Here’s the Multiplayer screen I saw the cool screenshot thumbnails on…
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In one of my old lengthy posts from April, I had mentioned this idea in a bit more detail:
MAP SELECTION IMPROVEMENTS
When choosing a map where it shows a bunch of map tiles to choose from, the artistic representations aren’t detailed or clear enough to get an accurate account of what the map will look like.I find myself having to actually launch a game with the map with “All Visible” to see what it looks like, then back out and pick another one because I don’t like it.
So, I wish you could hover over those artistic map tiles to see an enlarged pop-up preview using in-game graphics of what the map will actually look like in-game. (For simplicity and speed, it could just be a .JPG or .PNG image that pops up.)
Would like for that pop-up to rotate through different versions of the map you might see.
For example, rotate through its various foliage, trees, gaia, sheep/turkeys/buffalo food it might have, season possibilities, etc.Personally, I’m not a huge fan of turkeys as my food source or snow on my maps. I would be less apt to choose a map if I knew it had turkeys for food or high probability of snow.
Seeing a step in the right direction in-game already inspired me to bubble this up to its own thread.