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Originally Posted by LetMeDownload
Greets.
Currently EQ2MAP shows ALL possible quest starts, quest updates, quest end markers. Disabling any of these can also disable ones we need.
How about a simple cross-reference with our Quest Journal for quests in the CURRENT ZONE, and just display the markers for all quests we have in the current zone.
By ONLY showing quest markers for ones we need (ie ones in our quest journal), one look at our Map and we can see all the locations that need to be visited at a glance, and plan the rest of our day.
This idea can also be expanded to just show MOBS/Critters we just need for our quests (and hide the rest). Much more effective and efficient.
A [x] tickbox can enable and disable this feature for easy access to view all other quest markers if needed.
This would make EQ2Map a less cumbersome and more user-friendly mod. And after all these years, I think its time for this change to happen. (Pretty please with a cherry on top!)
Thanks.
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SOE is already doing basically what you want with their provided POIs and ROIs for quests in your journal, they can do it a whole lot easier than we can. Unfortunately in how they did it they did not (to my knowledge) expose anything to us that would let us tag on and have custom POIs filtered by active quests, meaning if we could do it at all it would likely be a massive undertaking given how many POIs we have. SOE has not finished all the zones with their developer-specified POIs, but as they do add them the existing EQ2MAP POIs can be removed to de-clutter the map.
Believe me, what you're asking for is something we have wanted a long time. Rothgar told us it was coming, but in the end they went a different route and made the POIs developer-specified with no way for us to get in on the action. You can always send in some /feedback for them to open up a way of adding custom POIs that are filtered by quest, but I just don't see it coming any time soon given the way they've gone.
Maybe once they finish we can look at how many quest POIs we need to keep (ie those that aren't done by SOE) and if it's a small enough number something might be doable then, but with the thousands of POIs we have now I don't see us coming up with anything for them.