Board Thread:Suggestions forum/@comment-4750818-20180601105030

Good day, folks,

I am aware that there have been quite a few discussions regarding the map not showing your location in hard mode, and I fully support those. But, I have another idea which add a little more to this mechanic.

Firstly, if you play in Easy mode, or if a server's difficulty is set to easy, things shall stay as they are.

In Normal Mode, things will be similar to what they are in easy, but for one exception. In order to see the on-screen compass, you'll have to have the aforementioned item in your inventory, similar to the compass in Unturned.

If you play in Hard mode, you obviously won't see your location on the map, nor your coordinates above the compass if you've found one. Ideally, you shouldn't have a map at all to start out with. You'd have to loot structures or kill NPC's to obtain map items, which would be an uncommon drop. Once you've got one of these, you could place them in your hotbar and right click. This would reveal a certain amount of the Middle-Earth map. For example, maps of creatures of Gundabad would reveal the Grey and Misty Mountains (among others), Ranger maps would reveal Eriador, Rohirric maps would show Rohan and some of the surrounding areas, and Mordor maps would show Mordor and the areas around it. Cartographer traders could also be added, that would sell you maps for a small fee.

If you folks have any other ideas, leave them in the comments below.

Your old admin,

Glflegolas (admin) Send a Messenger  10:50, June 1, 2018 (UTC) 