Guild Wars 2

Could you guys make Tyria as a planet with “google earth style” animation and not a simple flat piece of land? I think this would be amazing

The planet could be really big and covered with fog until new continents will be revealed

*It is about the zoomed out map view for those wondering what I am talking about.

No one seems to like a globe but just a flat map

Tell me, have you never seen a map that is flat? Because I can tell you, those exist.

Also, tell me when was the last time that you felt that the Earth was particularly spherical and definitely not flat?

There’s more to Tyria than what’s on the map. The map is just all that’s been cartographed (from our endeavors in GW1).

There is a globe inside the Chantry of Secrets.

Ronah.2869:

No one seems to like a globe but just a flat map

is is an suggestion I made in an other forum loooooong ago once.

I really would love to see Tyria as a full 3D globe map, especially once other explorable continents get added and we want to change from one continent over to another continent via Map by just zooming out the map to the Globe View, turning the glob by the mouse to where we want to go and then zoom in to the globe to get again into the 2D view of the place where you want to go to to choose the waypoint then to travel to that place..

It would really help also alot to recognize the real size of the game world, by exactly seeing every continent of the game and where exactly the< are placed.
As long as the other continents aren’t implemented, there could be some mysterious FOG, that prevents players from zooming in to yet unexplorable places….

Wouldn’t it really be some serious great ART for your Developers to turn your game world for us into a real graspable 3D globe with that we can play around while traveling ??? Especially with the new map design of GW2 that is much more fuller of details/colors ect. than it was in GW1.

It would also make the map a whole lot slower.

The main problem with this is the fact the Tyria we see is a very small part of the globe. Essentially USA to our globe. There’s no real reason to render all the remaining continents if no one can go to them..

This might be a good idea once we reach other continents but not now..

Although, this on a site would be pretty cool. even though about 80% has yet to be named or reference in game.

Ronah.2869:

The planet could be really big and covered with fog until new continents will be revealed

…making looking at anywhere, other than current play area zones, extremely pointless.
Observing a foggy no-man’s land, even google earth style, just doesn’t sound like a great idea.

Even though I’m inclined to disagree with the OP, Eve Online kind of tells me it would be a good idea.

If it is possible, I think it’d be a nice plan for the future.

Final Fantasy 7 had a spherical globe :P

There was actually a project on GW2G before beta that utilized Google Maps Software to map Tyria. I’m sure you could find the source for it and port it over to Google Earth API.

EDIT: Here’s a link to the GW2G thread (not the GMaps API one) that displays the entire Tyrian world in a globe, map and “what we’ve seen so far” format. It’s gigantic.
http://www.guildwars2guru.com/topic/40761-the-complete-world-of-tyria-image-heavy/