who got banned for minimap? The AGS blog post literally said that they have not banned anyone for minimap.
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If you don’t understand the difference between a static map and one that shows your location in real time, there are only two options. You are either too dumb to see it or you don’t want to see it.
…/facepalm
so lets make this clear… you are equating using 3rd party software that literally shows you content that the game was designed to hide. with having more than one monitor and having a website up and running ?
one thing is a map, another is an automatic gps that shows what you want… one thing requires the user to cross refference with game of locations, the other one just shows a direct path & location…
if anything you only cemented it further that the app deserves the bans it causes…
they are as comparable as looking at a basic map overview or having wall hack enabled
furthermore… once you allow something as invasive as a live minimap that can display data, you make life for bots very very easy… the more info you can collect of your location and whats near the more humane a bot can be made to react…
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And if that logic was a common thing, all English folk would have to shoot any Scottish people attempting to cross the border with a longbow, as well as train with a longbow a few hours a day.
Rules do need to be followed yes, but rules that are nonsensical do need to be challenged and reviewed.
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LMAO, they would have to then ban like more than 85% of their current playerbase. That would be akin to committing corporate suicide.
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They literally stated “unless a mistake happened”…
I misread the post, the minimap is unfair plain and simple. The ore locator on the compass should have way more range though, it is barely enough to make a difference right now.
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only if you don’t use it
Using Overwolf’s minimap felt unfair. I don’t think that AGS has communicated clearly in this. First the talk as if they allow Overwolf’s minimap, and then they talk about what a minimap should not do to be allowed, an many of these things are in Overwolf’s minimap which should mean it is not allowed 
I also think that, currently, Overwolf’s minimap is unfairly broad in what it shows; turkey nests, notes, which are not trackable at all, as well a nodes for ore and food that are just too far away from what the compass shows.
AGS should just work to make the compass work 100% of the time first.
Just imagine, if there WAS a minimap, and it STILL behaved like the compass, where it didn’t show you anything, as the compass does. What then?
They have to first concentrate their efforts in the compass functionality not breaking even after a few hours of gameplay, and then we see what else.
The problem with it is that it covers a wider radius then your compass. So people can see ore that is further then the compasses abilities. Thus in lies the problem.
Uhm… forgive me but I’m a bit confused.
Are you saying people with computer workstations don’t use mapgenie to run around the world? And that is somehow not allowed. Yeah totally confused tbh.
should we also start a post with:
START BANNING PEOPLE NOW THAT USE INTEL!!!
the tracking is not working. I’m in front of ori or iron or basically anything and tracking is not showing it.
This is terrible.
improvement would be …hmm… make it work ?
@Unbekunt From time to time compass is bugging out and nothing can be tracked expect for party players and map markers. There is quick workaround for this just relax into menu and log back in
2 monitors? no ban every1 tha has eyes so the wont see the maps
pfff…
im stupid pls wtb brain
Yet another person trying to convince people that an in-game minimap that displays all node locations regardless of character skill, distance, or whether they’d show on compass is equivalent to an out-of-game resource. (Surely that’s the point, right? The devs have made clear a character-position-only minimap is ok and I’ve not seen anyway speak against that, so you must be on about the debate about nodes in minimaps.)
First, these are not equivalent in functionality.
Second, if you actually thought they were equivalent, why do you care if such an in-game mini-map is allowed?
Devs, you’re going to continue having people use empty rhetoric to argue 1) that an in-game minimap that shows exactly which direction to face to reach the next out-of-compass-range resource node is equivalent to referring to an external resource and 2) that you’ve said an in-game mini-map can show all nodes regardless of the clear restrictions you’ve given.
Please reverse course and ban add-ons completely. Bring back a level playing field that doesn’t require installing untrusted software.
Triple 24h ban for you.
The current tracking system is terrible i can agree.
AGS should ban all the people that use minimap plugin(overwalf) OR make a map for all the people.
It is not fair and correct to allow some people use the minimap becouse they know how to activate and have overwolf and also force some people to have overwolf if they want the minimap and others that dont have installed overwolf cant see tha map.
So you shoud make your minimap ingame or ban it.
Becouse as it is you sayd that you allow overwolf minimap, so some people are advantaged and some other not. Becouse you allow to have only extern plugin. So for the people wich use extern tools it’s allowed to have minimap. Like, what the heck !!
The compas didnt track nothing at all, i can see resources with naked eye and still not have on the compas.
The compass it’s bad design.
You dont want to ruin full immersion, ok, then i had a suggestion wich i will now rewrite again.
Suggestion: All the map it’s explorable, once you see and are near a resource, this will become permanently on the map. So you need to be there and “discover it” after that you will always have the resource on the map. So you need to cover all the map to have all the map complete.
To date no one has been banned for using any of the Overwolf mini-map plugins; the Dev team has stated that the mini-maps in their current state are all acceptable for players to use.
I understand a large number of players who personally do not want the mini-maps to be available for others to use are consistently spreading disinformation on the forums, indicating that the mini-map will get you banned (interestingly enough, at the same time calling FOR amazon to ban people so I’m unsure which it is). Ignore these people.
You are fine to use any of the mini-maps available on Overwolf currently. I recommend Aeternum Map, it’s the one I use.