Who would use an overlay of the empty map? What purpose would that even serve? Is that really the reason they went to the trouble to provide players with coordinates? Probably not, they just changed their minds. This is just a random distinction they decided to come up with but it clearly makes no sense. Then people will complain that it doesn’t show loot chests, it doesn’t show journal pages, etc. Then all the tracking by level that they have already coded will pop on the mini-map. The solution is to give the user control over the UI to convert the compass to a mini-map. The solution, honestly, is simple and people will still not like it. It is when that map shows YOU on it, moving, and where the resources are that is the issue they do not want. You can stare at a map, whether it be visually on a screen or drawn on a piece of paper. The argument about opening up another site that has the map is not the same. So if you are level 30 in mining, you should not see platinum nodes as being tracked on your mini-map. That is what they will allow to be mimicked in a mini-map instead of a compass system. At certain levels of a gathering skill, it will now ‘track’ (broken though) a resource. What does the current compass give you? It shows you where you are and a pointer to where you have quests/markers.

I think you are NOT understanding what was said because you don’t like the answer. Now because the map itself contains more information than the ingame map players think you could mean that additional information is “pulled”, while it is not actually pulled. The map is not pulled from the game, it is provided by the addon and the addon just puts the player on the map in form of an arrow.

It just pulls the location of the player from the game. It does not pull information about chest respawn timers, ore respawn timers, other player’s location etc.

The addon doesn’t pull any other information from the game (via API, hack, OCR etc.) other than the location. This map shows ressource nodes, but those nodes are painted on the map - they are not dynamically generated. It is my understanding that the addon pulls the player’s location and puts the player on a map. The confusion is caused by a technical notice, which is hard to understand.

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