[Feedback] Cloth map city labels

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Cloth map looks really nice in the latest beta, but one thing that strikes me kind of silly are the long city labels.

For example:

Example: New Pariden

 

I think New Pariden woud look nicer on the cloth map as 

New 

Pariden

 

I think it's called blank text wrapping and I *think* it's relatively easy to implement :-)

 

See this for more examples:

 

 

 

Now thinking about it some more, I think it would be even nicer if the city labels arcked following city territory, like they do in the above example :-)

Thanks for reading! :-) 

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Reply #1 from Elemental Forums Top

The cloth map is one of the most elegant features of the game, every little bit of work in this area will add tremendously to the joy of playing it.

If something similar is developed for tactical battles the game will be entirely playable on low end systems, increasing the size of its audience dramatically!

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Reply #3 from Elemental Forums Top

Yes, cloth map is fantastic.

It would even nicer if forests,mountains, plains and rivers had unobtrusive labels on the cloth map.

Like "Mountains of Despair", "Forest of Shadows", "River of Time " and so on...

They could be used like orientation markers in the game world for events, quests and other stuff. 

What sounds better?

"Your iron mine in southwestern part of your empire has been destroyed."

or

"Your iron mine near the Plains of Blood has been destroyed."

 

Reply #4 from Elemental Forums Top

Quoting darklander0, reply 3
Yes, cloth map is fantastic.

It would even nicer if forests,mountains, plains and rivers had unobtrusive labels on the cloth map.

Like "Mountains of Despair", "Forest of Shadows", "River of Time " and so on...

They could be used like orientation markers in the game world for events, quests and other stuff. 

What sounds better?

"Your iron mine in southwestern part of your empire has been destroyed."

or

"Your iron mine near the Plains of Blood has been destroyed."

 
End of darklander0's quote

 

If a collection of contiguous tiles is large enough it is assigned a random unique name on world creation: the work/reward ratio for implementing something like this is too good to ignore.

Reply #5 from Elemental Forums Top

Don't know if you guys are trolling or just not aware, but labeling map features was one of the things in EWoM's list of promised features that just never materialised.

Reply #6 from Elemental Forums Top

Current map labels can overlap and become jumbled.  This would have to be fixed before adding more labels.

Reply #7 from Elemental Forums Top


I want the city emblems from the 3d view to show up on the cloth map.