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Voidflakes has X4: Foundations

Dec 31, 2018 @ 8:22am

Expanding sector maps... WORST IDEA EVER

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LordPunisher has X4: Foundations

Dec 31, 2018 @ 8:43am

Agreed.

Oh, IMO empty space really does not make the maps bigger, even if we can fly to it.
I even flew two sectors away from a sector, its just turns into an endless trail for miners fighting bad guys every N or so kilometers. Like a pearl string into infinity.

At one point I was thinking, hell, so here are all the NPC we can shoot...off the map!

Last edited by LordPunisher; Dec 31, 2018 @ 8:43am

SpaceToast has X4: Foundations

Dec 31, 2018 @ 8:48am

Agreed, I much prefer keeping the sectors non zoomed out, empty space is boring, even IF there MIGHT be some random wreck or a abandoned station/ship, flying for hours into infinity with no way of locating these suprises,its just not worth the snooze fest....ive tried multiple times to fly out and ''explore'' the nothingness, havent found anything worthwhile. If we had SOME way of making finding these things easier,not like handed to you but maybe a NPC could drop a hint of a direction he/she saw something ''strange'' or out of the ordinary that we could investigate I think it would be much funner and immersive.

KWAiRT

Dec 31, 2018 @ 8:48am

Be nice if we could lock sector size and reveal the entire fog of war.

Voidflakes has X4: Foundations

Dec 31, 2018 @ 8:56am

My thoughts exactly! It's all well and good saying that each sector is 10,000 trillion cubic miles or whatever, but if the actual area of importance (where all the stations are) is only 2% of that area and the rest is just empty besides the odd pair of spawned-in Xenon ships, what's the point? It wouldn't be so much hassle if we could lock the zoom level on a per-sector basis, but in the current state, well, the pictures speak for themselves!

Heh, for me it was more like "Why the hell have I stopped making money? Where are my traders at? .... Ahh, they've all decided to GTFO, stage left!!" xD

KWAiRT

Dec 31, 2018 @ 8:58am

Keep the expanding sectors just dont show it on the map. Assuming it's faked anyways. If you want to explore off the map and fight wave after wave of enemies that is cool too! Just don't muck up the map scale

Last edited by KWAiRT; Dec 31, 2018 @ 8:59am

T-Rex137 Dec 31, 2018 @ 8:58am

you scroll with your middle finger?

Bruce Dickinson's Eye has X4: Foundations

Dec 31, 2018 @ 9:00am

The UI on the expanding sector borders works only so far it seems, although exploring into the ether is something people do enjoy. For that i reference Elite Dangerous. It should be kept as a choice to whether one explores that far or not. But, if we can explore that far, the Map system will need an overhaul, surely?

Blueheaven has X4: Foundations

Dec 31, 2018 @ 9:23am

I would like to be able to shrink some of my sectors that got screwed up by auto explore. It is pretty annoying !

Schutzengel has X4: Foundations

Dec 31, 2018 @ 9:32am

Id also like such a feature.

Auto-Shrink-Move towards and including all stations and objects plus 100km around them.

Voidflakes has X4: Foundations

Jan 2, 2019 @ 6:13am

Defence drones are wandering off-map as well, it seems >:(

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Ryan

Jan 2, 2019 @ 6:58am

Originally posted by Vaako:
you scroll with your middle finger?

That's why it's called the middle mouse button. One finger fits on each button nicely. Just how I do it though.

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ShoC

Jan 2, 2019 @ 7:05am

Originally posted by Ryan:
Originally posted by Vaako:
you scroll with your middle finger?

That's why it's called the middle mouse button. One finger fits on each button nicely. Just how I do it though.

This bothers me so much more than it should.. I tried all 3 fingers and I'll never ever do that again! I feel all dirty

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ADMIRALPAIN has X4: Foundations

Jan 2, 2019 @ 7:06am

Lol yeah, having the same problem. I have one scout per sector, once they scouted the entire sector they wander off and increase the sector size. I have to play "catch the scouts" every now and then when they even wander off of those then huge sector borders and fly around in dead space.

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Mithandra

Jan 2, 2019 @ 7:13am

the worst idea ever was actually a chocolate fireguard. this one, though not well thought out, doesnt hold a candle to that. The only thing I can think of is they decided on it so later they could add stuff in an...... expansion.

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