[Suggestion] Minimap size

[Yuffi.2430]

I've played GW2 since beta. I know the original idea was that the game would play reasonably well on older machines, but time moves on, and Moore's Law still holds true and hardware improves. The minimap has had the same fixed size since launch. On smaller screens that was fine, but now that screens are bigger and graphics cards are more powerful, is it time for the minimap to be improved?

 

I would like to see two changes:

1. The maximum minimap size increased so we can enlarge the minimap if we want to. Up to, say 1000 pixels by 500? This would have been full screen back in the old days but would be only a quarter of a 1080p screen now. Perhaps there are better options - should it be limited by screen size only?

2. It would really good if the minimap also had an option to spawn it in a second window. Anyone with two (or more screens) will know how useful this would be but it would be a cool

option anyway.

 

Thoughts?

[Dawdler.8521]

Eh the size of the minimap can already be changed last I checked.

[Yuffi.2430]

I can shrink it from small to tiny but there's a (small) maximum size it stops at when I try to enlarge it. This is what i'd like to increase - the maximum size. That way players can choose for themselves how big to have it.

[Dante.1763]

> @"Dawdler.8521" said:

> Eh the size of the minimap can already be changed last I checked.

 

It can be changed yes, but its idiotically limited in how large it can be increased. IMO it should be allowed to cover the whole screen if the player so wishes, or at a lower maximum one quarter.

[Ray Koopa.2354]

What annoys me much more is that it fades to this super undetailed graphics layer after zooming out only two levels. You cannot see anything on that blurry layer anymore, it is missing details all over.

[Sylent.3165]

In gw1 you could move and adjust the size of everything which was awesome. This includes map, hp and mana bar, where quests and party are displayed and the dialogue. I have no idea why in gw2 they removed features.

[Solvar.7953]

I would love for the mini map to be resizable (playing on a 4K display). There are some tweaks one can do by setting different interface sizes, but that also sets lots of other elements to new (larger) sizes, like inventory and other windows.

 

[Gop.8713]

Being able to push it to a second screen would be incredibly cool, but I feel like the overall benefit to players prolly doesn't justify the effort involved in making it available . . .