Why is the minimap so small in modern games? Will you be able to make minimap larger in AoE4?
Em, in old games minimap was like 1/3 of the UI and you kind of need it to check what does happen.
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seems like a waste of space to circle over the square and should just expand the square to those parameters, it does seem quite small.
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Yeah, it is small. You can barely see anything of value
Love that you are pointing this out. Minimaps, in general, have taken a bucket dive in terms of readability/usefulness the last 10 or so years.
Their thinking is probably to save space for the main game-view; that the minimap isnโt considered a โproperโ part of the playspace but rather a convenience feature. Ideally they would allow you to scale the minimap to your liking, independently from the rest of the UI.
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I would gladly sacrifice game view for more, even exaggerated mini map .
town centers, castles, landmarks and native trade markets should have a clear visible icon when scouted.
we do see some of that, but I hope it extends to castles as well
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Even if they expand the square to the circle(it really should cover that entire corner), it doesnโt take up that much space. Bad move to shrink it that small
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Uping this topic because I think it is important to have a bigger minimap.
In AoE2 they kept redoing the game for more modern computers which imply bigger screens and resolutions, but they kept the mini-map the same which meant it actually became smaller and smaller compared to rest of the screen
In 1999 you would play on 1024/768 or even 800/600 screens which meant the mini-map was taking a big portion of the screen, lets say 1/9 or 1/12. So the minimap was designed to be properly sized. Now gameplay area got bigger but not the minimap, which got forever shrunk in a corner to make it what now looks like a 1/32 part of the screen.
This is why I play AoE2 with the bigger minimap mod, I cant imagine playing without it anymore, it makes such a huge difference.
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I think multi monitor support could be good for a mini map or something like what supreme commander did.
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In 25 years ago games, the number of pixel in the screen made it impossible to make a little minimap. Simply there wasnโt enough pixels to represent things accurately. Now itโs possible.
I agree the minimap should be rescalable.
Probably when you play in 1080p the minimap will re-scale and be more big (I think)
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yeah in some games it can be toggled by a button to small/large it would be cooool! multi monitor support is another great idea 
especially if map is huge and base building needs more micro management.
in rare cases, there is a full screen map option, useful on huge maps if the map has enough control features (selection, order), but I dont think would be needed in AoE4
asminimap icons is too small
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I love the way you can expand the mini-map in 3 with a keypress (alt-d as I recall).
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aoe2 minimap is terrible all others rts has a better minimap even dota and lol !!! Besides CaptureAges has a way better minimaps but the devs prefer adding (because of money) 3 new civ each 3 month clap clap clap thx
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