Take the first 2 posts and put them together… that’s what I think.
It should have been in game and in exploring the atlas it wasn’t so much a problem I just wasn’t particularly impressed.
(Motions with Hands)
“Move along, move along”
I like it, I just do not like it being on a website as opposed to a functional tool found in game. Surely that is not hard to understand?
And surely it is not hard to understand that adding something to a website is much easier than to adding something to a massive game?
we’re practically paying them to make stuff, it’s time they make it happen.
btw, it’s not that hard, it takes time but adding something like this is more a time consumption feature to add rather then a difficult one.
Aside from clicking on the circles…I don’t really understand how to use it. Mostly I just go to the wiki for any information I missed. It’s a nice feature but it needs to be in game and honestly, I’d rather they pool their resources for an expansion rather than for something like this.
Hmm.
The game client can direct my browser to wiki pages. Why was this implemented as a stand-alone web page and not integrated with the in-game map (i.e. put the map into atlas mode) that redirected to the wallpapers and images if you clicked on them?
Perhaps with that integration if your atlas was "active" you would get a little ping or an icon would flash if you were exploring in a map near a Living Story zone or historical point.
As it is, this is kind of a neat little project with respect to its appearance but it doesn’t add anything for me.
Well I’m really enjoying the LS well done, i usually spend a majority of my time in wvw but this escape from LA is excellent. The issues I had was with doc,ing a lot but after uninstalling then re installing the game it has fixed any problems had.
At some point in clicking around something I did made another tab open in my browser. I think it was a 3rd party site? And it had a comment that congrats I’d found secret coordinates for more places, which turned out to be the DR Dead End area things I’d already found just by scrolling the map. I’m still 8/9 for EfLA library items after a lot of scrolling and clicking and going to coordinates listed in spoilers in this thread. The art is nice but frequently too small to see or read — yes, it can be expanded, if I have the time between RP or other game play or watching videos, etc. At least, sometimes it expands, sometimes it just makes a tiny panel, I’m not sure what determines which it will do.
Thus far the Atlas feels like an interesting novelty but hardly an information source (mind you I’ve played nearly daily since launch, and read these forums a lot, so a gross overview isn’t going to tell me anything new; people with less play time invested might be surprised by some of the micro-squibs of information held in the little circles). It’s aesthetically and technically advanced yet useless on a practical level. I say “thus far” because above posters are right, lots more depth can be added to the framework of the Atlas.
There’s a few things I would like to see added to the atlas that I think players would really appreciate (especially new ones that missed the old content) .
So I guess tl;dr:
Other than that I think the atlas is awesome and look forward to seeing where they take it next
The more i poke it the more it feels over-designed.
The bottom bar eats up half the screen space here. And the “looking glass” seems to do crap all.
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