Clusters: No way to update?

Kallah · #1 01-18-2007, 08:46 AM

Greetings,

I’d taken several months off from the game and when I returned the first thing I did after patching was grab EQ2Map! I’m directionally impaired on the best of days, and I suspect I would get lost in my own game house without it. So first and foremost: thank you guys for making and keeping current one of the most amazing and awesome mods out there.

Back in the day I was quite active in updating and submitting POIs, and I remember there being an issue with the new (well, it was new then) system for submitting corrections to clusters. Now I see that the feature was been completely removed, and that clusters aren’t on the new maps. Is there any way the current clusters (many of which are either out of date, duplicates, or just plain wrong) could be replaced with POIs so that each could be edited/corrected? I understand that would be a lot of work (how many thousand of old clusters are there? Ack!) but I would be happy to do so if there was only a way. I know I’m not the only one out here itching to bust those clusters and make the maps better for everyone! Is there any way cluster corrections could be added, or the clusters themselves broken up into their old individual POIs? Sorry for all the questions and a possibly long-dead feature.

ShadowProwler420 · #2 01-18-2007, 09:08 AM

Odds are, the best you would be able to do is to follow these instructions and wait for them to be fixed. I, too, have been out of the game for a while (still no time for it right now, actually). But if I remember correctly, even at the time I was able to play, alot of the maps were cluttered with duplicates and wrong POIs. So I am sure the project (or some may say 'overhaul') will take some time, but Rome wasn't built in a day

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Kallah · #3 01-18-2007, 12:25 PM

Greetings,

Sadly, the normal directions don’t work for Clusters. I happily update and correct dozens of POIs every time I think about it, but currently, there’s not a thing I can do about Clusters. Well, other than post here. *Grin*

**lordebon** · #4 01-19-2007, 01:43 PM

Yep, I started a post about this too... once POIs are 'clustered' they become very hard to 'uncluster' by us folks.

***Dolby*** · #5 01-19-2007, 01:54 PM

The only poi clusters that are on the maps are from the old website. The new site doesnt make them as the way the old site was making them was not a good way to do it. Since then the people helping on the site have been busy or moved on to other games.

So this brings up a good discussion, what should be done with the clusters? Remove them all together and restore the POI's? This might be a good idea since there is a eq2map side-pane list in the works that list all the points of interest in the zone and when clicked creates a waypoint.

**Landiin** · #6 01-19-2007, 05:57 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Dolby

The only poi clusters that are on the maps are from the old website. The new site doesnt make them as the way the old site was making them was not a good way to do it. Since then the people helping on the site have been busy or moved on to other games.

So this brings up a good discussion, what should be done with the clusters? Remove them all together and restore the POI's? This might be a good idea since there is a eq2map side-pane list in the works that list all the points of interest in the zone and when clicked creates a waypoint.

I vote restore the POI's