Map Control Panel

[Teesa "Teesa" Fisher]

I was messing around with the map control panel and discovered it let me move one of my marks where I wanted it. But doing that made my NU Storage mark move almost to bottom and now I can't move any of them. Tried moving the NU Storage one back to it's original spot with no luck.

Edited: Forgot to mention, it acts like you can move things around. Since my first post above, I've played around with this more and as long as I move my mark as soon as I make it it's movable.

[Teesa "Teesa" Fisher]

Played around a bit more and here's what I've found...see screenies. A couple of things I noticed when I first open map control panel it doesn't show the full word 'mobs', the order started out mobs, Sar, NU. After I clicked on NU and tried moving the Lead Sulfur Pharr Wygg to put it with other stone marks, the Sar folder moved to bottom underneath NU, the NU Storage mark moved to almost the bottom of the NU folder.

[Jarod "Brickwit" McBrickerton]

I've moved marks around too and it seems to be sorting them alphabetically when you move them but not before. So if you want them in a non-alphabetic order you can add numbers to the start of the names. For example "1 mobs," "2 Sar," "3 NU," and so on.

When you made the "mobs" folder did you capitalize the word? I found that a marker named with a word starting with the letter 'M' was automatically made lower-case even though I typed it as upper-case.

[Teesa "Teesa" Fisher]

Yes, I capitalized 'mobs' but you see the results. The alphabetic makes sense now that you mentioned it, but it shouldn't let us move things around then if it's going to change it. Not to mention it doesn't start Alphabetically, it has it in the order that I made the marks.

[Teesa "Teesa" Fisher]

@Brickwit: 'mobs' is a folder that didn't capitalize, but I do have a mark named Moles and it's capitalized. I wonder if it's a folder issue for the letter M.

[Zwarka "Zwarky" Stonehenge]

'mobs' is a folder that didn't capitalize, but I do have a mark named Moles and it's capitalized. I wonder if it's a folder issue for the letter M.

Have tryed it too ... have same here too:

Mob -> mob
Mobs -> mobs
Noobot -> noobot

Look like there are many more changing:

afterworld -> AfterWorld
awd -> AWD
outpost -> Outpost
swamp -> Swamp
creature -> Creature


It's a Bug, or it's a Feature?


Greetings - Zwarky

[Zaelkaer "Allfather" Vampyre]

I have been using the markers and groups and folders since the transfer, and I think it's totally awesome, but it could still use some improvement - at least what i would like, is to be able to reorganize more simply. I mean like just here in Windows. You can create a folder, or multiple folders, and folders inside that and so on, and you can move anything anywhere at any time. Here though once you make something its kinda gonna stay there. Not sure how to explain it other than, could we make the markers work in the same fashion? Moveable, interchange. For example, sometimes i don't know where the new marker or group is going to go, and it'd be nice to be able to drag and drop the folders and markers to put everything where you want them to be.

The Allfather

Edit: In alpha, you were limited to 50 markers or something like that, and some memory cards helped enhance that or something? How about here/now, is it still limited or unlimited markers?

[Jarod "Brickwit" McBrickerton]

I'd prefer complete control over marker and folder order too. I can understand the desire to alphabetize the listing but that should be an option not an enforced rule when you move things around.

@The Allfather, I can't see any sort of limitation on the number of markers like we used to see in AWA. I don't know if that means that there is no longer a limit or if the limit has been dramatically increased but either way I like it!

[Old "Snowy" Leopard]

@The Allfather.
I drag and drop markers and groups - seems to work fine.  Either drag between two entries to insert at that point, or drag to an actual group to be included in there.  Groups within groups work OK although I haven't tested to how many levels.
You can even 'grab' a marker to drag it and scroll the map at the same time to the position where to drop it.  (I wish Storage and Inventory allowed this).

*** What I would like is to have interaction between the control panel and the map: i.e. if I highlight a mark in the control panel, I would like it to flash on the map, and if I highlight a mark on the map I would like to be 'thrown to it' in the control panel, if the panel is open.   (But this is just day-dreaming, not a firm request  ).

[Jarod "Brickwit" McBrickerton]

@The Allfather.
I drag and drop markers and groups - seems to work fine.  Either drag between two entries to insert at that point, or drag to an actual group to be included in there.  Groups within groups work OK although I haven't tested to how many levels.
You can even 'grab' a marker to drag it and scroll the map at the same time to the position where to drop it.  (I wish Storage and Inventory allowed this).

*** What I would like is to have interaction between the control panel and the map: i.e. if I highlight a mark in the control panel, I would like it to flash on the map, and if I highlight a mark on the map I would like to be 'thrown to it' in the control panel, if the panel is open.   (But this is just day-dreaming, not a firm request  ).

Well why not make an actual suggestion thread about it? That would be pretty handy to have your day-dreaming options in the game! 8-)

Whenever I've played with the Control Panel I could drag and drop markers and groups too, but I usually only did it to bring markers into or out of groups or move groups from inside to outside because I had the wrong thing selected when I created them. But each time it seems like the whole list or folder was automatically re-sorted to alphabetic order. Is that not happening to you?

[Old "Snowy" Leopard]

Yes - mine go alphabetic.  I presumed it was a feature, not a bug   

and, as for the daydream ... I reckoned there are more important bugs which should be fixed first, so it's low priority. 

[Jarod "Brickwit" McBrickerton]

I didn't really think of it as a bug either since I also prefer alphabetic order (I'm a little bit OCD about that kind of thing, haha) but others clearly prefer to have their own sorting order.

As for your suggestion I really don't think there's ever a bad time to ask for a feature as long as you know that it's not likely to happen very soon. Feature requests and ideas are what help shape the game's development and the devs are happy to let us help with that shaping so fire away! 8-)