The maps have been added! brammator did a great job on them.
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Originally Posted by Pijotre
Well Fan Faire was 4 days ago Dolby is back and I still didn't see a single post from him on the boards about new informations on the new map system .........
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Yes it was 4 days ago but I didnt get home until yesterday and found there were some server issues I had to take care of first. Thanks for your understanding.
I'll post this in a better location later but the new map system was talked about in the EverQuest II - Into the Future development panel. Don, The lead programmer said that the new map system will consist of a small mini map and a full screen map, all zones will have a map and a standard set of well known poi's. There will be a way to inject our custom poi's via xml. The really neat thing Don talked about was the ability to search points of interest similar to Microsoft's live search where as soon as you start typing only poi's with those words show up.
The really great thing about this map system is it will save a ton on our bandwidth since we wont have to host the large map images for download.
From what it sounds like there wont be a need to modify the patcher since we can easily tell it what to download for the website. The website will need some code changes but shouldn't be too bad.