Map table/globe - making cartography slightly more useful

[brohammed]

It'd be nice to have somewhere to display my maps. I propose 2 new items of furniture, the Map Table and the Gilded Globe.

The map table has 4 slots, on which you can place 4 completed region maps belonging to the same supergrid (sorted automatically), and a "light" button which brings up a supergrid view of the placed region maps, allowing a player to know which corner of their supergrid they are on. Suggested cost 8 blocks, 6 boards, 4 leather.

The Gilded Globe is the same, but has enough slots for the entire world in region map format. Since the hearthling already knows where each minimap goes on a local map, and where each local map goes on a region map, I figure he should know where each region map goes on a map of the world since by travelling far enough to collect a sensible amount of region maps he's learned to navigate by the stars or something. Perhaps that should be a new Skill enable the construction of these items? Suggested cost 12 blocks, 8 boards, 8 leather, 2 nuggets gold/silver. This item would give a nice in-game global mapping solution, enabling hearthlings to figure out where in the world their supergrid is.

Ideally the globe view should have a coordinate system imposed, finally putting an end to the argument about how to name supergrids.

[Salinn]

This game does add supergrids at the edges, from time to time, so it would have to be a dynamic changing system that may not be possible with the coding as it stands.

[Barhandar]

World is not wrapped. So it cannot be globe.

[brohammed]

Doesn't have to be displayed as a globe, just a square.

[mvgulik]

World is not wrapped. So it cannot be globe.

Wrapped -> Torus.

[Barhandar]

Wrapped -> Torus.

If you walk to the north on the Earth, will you end on the "inner" torus surface? No. Will you see the edge of the world? No.

Btw, wrap can be "one-side", it forms a cylinder.

[mvgulik]

Right. Feel free to let me know when you have made up your mind about what world you were taking about.