So I can have that very same map open on my second screen and receive 100% of the same amount of information while playing but the second its shaped like a circle and overlayed over my game window its a bannable action? SO is the discord voice channel overlay also illegal? That is an overlay that sits over the game window allowing me to communicate with and see who else is communicating while I play the game. I don’t see much difference here.
Overwolf is an api tool and installer. I am refering to a solo build of a map tool.
This one reads your loc from the FPS counter, and uses a POI database to track nodes that players update. Much like how the harvester tool works for ESO. As a matter of fact its got a link to a google share drive, its not overwolf at least not as far as I can tell.
F. it, got it downloaded. If I get banned I will let you guys know
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@zengara1 i hope you don’t get banned, and I don’t see how if your using this one in the video as I mentioned, it reads your FPS loc with a tiny screen scrapper, and turns that into data that can be used on the POI database. It would be illegal for new world to detect what is running on your machine, they can only monitor their own exe files.
I’ve been using it since yesterday, works great.
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I mean it works but cant really zoom in and out on it without pressing buttons. Idk not really a super “I needed this” kind of addon for me I guess o.o
Cool ban people for this but AGS can’t handle simple fishing bots crashing the econmey
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Why wouldn’t you ban someone breaking the ToC simply because someone else is breaking them as well in a different way? That makes no sense at all. Breaking ToC is a violation period and everyone doing it should be punished. Not one or the other.
Because the FPS counter is provided by the game. It is data that is generated by the game. Specifically it is your characters coordinates that the mini map uses. Without those coordinates the functionality of the mini map fails.
I’m not arguing about if it is allowed or not. I am saying it uses data from the game to orientate the map to the players position. If it isn’t allowed I think they should make it part of base game so players can use it.
Until we know though I wouldn’t use it.
As we see, people defending it, are mostly the same that use it cause they want a minimap in game and they dont wsnt to get banned. Ok.
They just told you, you should not do it. Dont come crying later if you get banned.
No you wont, lol. If you get banned in game, you get banned on the forums. If we don’t hear from you with a daily check in, we will assume you took one for the team.
I think it would be great to use as a tool. But people do have a point that you shouldn’t be seeing resources on the map if you don’t have the skill level for it
Been using, enjoying it. I was already using the map in-browser anyway and this just overlays it in-game for convenience and reads the location data your game actively gives you as a reference point. If I get banned for using an overlay then they should sue the people who made the map to begin with as well by their own logic.
Lord knows it helps because of how steep the exp curve is for gathering skills.
But if I get banned then so be it, got my moneys worth of the game and starting to bore with it anyway
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You won’t get banned for this shit. It doesn’t interact in the game, it’s the exact same as just pinning a chrome browser of newworld-map to your screen.
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So, get the version of the minimap that uses the API provided by Amazon (Only they can provide the API as it needs to be specifically set up on the servers.) OCR from the FPS meter can be a grey area as it’s accessing data in a way that’s not supported. Since they provided the API, they are giving permission to use the data. The ONLY data being sent to the addon is the player position, no node info is being sent. The node info is pulled from the website. A node showing on the minimap doesn’t necessarily mean the node is spawned in the world. It’s just a MARKER. Anyone with decent memory already has this info from exploration.
I honestly couldn’t care less about this mini-map issue, but I do have a question.
How can it NOT interact with game files and still know where you are… in the game?
Something from the game has to be telling it where you are on the game map.
Use it don’t use it… I don’t care. Just don’t complain if you get banned.
@BurntReynolds
It uses a over lay of a map that is just an image, that moves. Everything outside the compass is hidden. how it knows where you are is based off the FPS ticker that comes with the game that
also give you your coordinates. The mini map app gets does a tiny image scrape from the screen of the numbers of the coords and coverts then into numbers. Those numbers are then plotted on the mini map in a representation of the arrow icon. The map itself is positioned with in the compass based on your ripped position. Every time you move, it repulls the coords from the image scrap, and updates your position on the mini map.
The image scrapes are like tiny screen shots of the FPS coords.
Does that make sense?
So it uses game data… got it.
No, it pulls on image off the screen
converts that into data, that is like you saying, I can see the game, so my eyes are stealing the data, that is absurd.
And where is that image getting it’s data from?? oh right - the game.