Distance to party

[Blxz]

I would like it if you could implement a distance to party metre or reference of some sort. Something like 100 tiles away or whatever; next to the arrow that points their direction. Not sure what anyone has to say to oppose this. Comments?

[Jackard]

I wonder how this would affect a large party. Would recalculating tile distance during movement cause lag?

[Lothaudus]

Not by much I don't think. Should be a simple matter of checking co-ords of all party members (which the arrows must have anyway so they know where to point) and doing a simple calc for distance.

[Gauteamus]

It would to a large degree remove the mystery of where one is in the world, though.
Not sure if the devs see this as a good or bad result.

[kaka]

Showing the exact distance would render the random offset on map coordinates useless.
IIRC, the server used to send your party members map (or relative, doesn't really matter) coordinates, and the arrow was then calculated from that, but then Loftar cropped the relative coordinates, leaving not much more than the direction.

If they'd add anything like that, I imagine it would be something like how Loftar's been wanting to display the in-game time on the site, with morning, noon, evening, etc. instead of the exact time.

[sabinati]

maybe it could be something like "very close" "close" "far" "very far"

[Gauteamus]

Or one could do like in the Brothers Karamazov, and give the distance in verst.

[Jackard]

maybe it could be something like "very close" "close" "far" "very far"

"near" is the proper antonym

[sabinati]

well preferably they could use some more flavorful words, or do it without words, change the length of the arrow or something. the point is to give an approximate distance rather than an exact one.

[kralmir]

maybe it could be something like "very close" "close" "far" "very far"

"near" is the proper antonym

"near"ly nobody cares to be honest, dont be a grammar nazi