I agree that there are just way too many POI's and they are no longer useful when all are visible.
As a player, I really only care about POI's for quests that I'm on. If that POI is of no use to me, I don't want to see it on the map. So other than POI's for merchants, bankers, mailboxes, etc., I'd want everything else off.
Tying it into the journal would not be that difficult. All we need to do is add another field to the POI structure for the quest name that its associated with. A simple change to the client would allow us to filter out all POI's unless the value in the quest field matched a quest in your active journal. This data would be maintained in the same way that custom POI's are submitted to EQ2Map. If a POI was used for multiple quests, I think it would be sufficient to be in the database multiple times as long as we only displayed it once.
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Do you realize that the dancing banana animation goes really well with the song "You Spin Me Round" by Dead or Alive? LOL
