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QoL: Shop Highlighting on the Map

Open IVI3galodon opened this issue 2 years ago • 0 comments

After a few days of play, currently, as a Mason on the 9.5 White Tiger playtest, I am looking at buying many types of rocks, crushed rocks, clay, roads and more.

My current process: open the trades window, use the pop-up window to select the items I'm interested in and arrange the list of items by the best price. I am now presented with all of the trades on the server regarding those items with the best deals at the top. Excellent up to now.

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While finding the shops on the map takes a single click, trying to plot a route to multiple shops is nigh impossible as one has to memorise the location of a shop and the roads leading to it, then check a second shop's location, memorise it and try to plot a route between home and the two shops, then check a third and see if you can add that to the mix. "Oh no, I forgot the location of the first shop." "Oh no, I accidentally closed the Trades Viewer! What were the first two shops again?" "Was this the guy selling 5 crushed sandstone or 200?" It gets tiring and sometimes frustrating.

I propose the option of selecting the trades I'm interested in and then click a button that will highlight the shops on the map which are offering those trades. As a player, I can now see the location of all shops I'm interested to trade with and can plot my route at a glance, easily, over and over. Once the map is closed the selection can disappear as it happens with the trade viewer.

I feel this would be very useful and will encourage more trade at every stage of the game, whether the player can make multiple trades by foot or by truck.

Edit: added screenshot

IVI3galodon avatar Apr 10 '22 02:04 IVI3galodon