Correction of N/S/E/W alignment

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Correction of N/S/E/W alignment

Postby N-Aldwitch » Sun Jul 23, 2006 12:57 pm

Please? Can we have north, being up? Not right? If a friend hadn't of told me when I started playing 1 and a bit years ago, I would have been quite frustrated.

Note I'm referring to the viewscreen here. ;)
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Postby Sunni Daez » Sun Jul 23, 2006 1:11 pm

view screen? leave the map alone on location... most written maps are set up with north to the right,,
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Postby Chris Johnson » Sun Jul 23, 2006 1:19 pm

A large body of in-game culture and documentation relies on the current map orientation - any change will cause more confusion.
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Postby west » Sun Jul 23, 2006 7:16 pm

Yeah. I like it how it is. I'd be so screwed up if you shifted the entire world 90 degrees counter-clockwise. You just can't DO that.
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Postby Sunni Daez » Sun Jul 23, 2006 7:55 pm

We would have to lie on our sides to play... that could prove to be difficult
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Postby tiddy ogg » Sun Jul 23, 2006 8:39 pm

I don't think you can change it now, but does anyone know why it is that way round?
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Postby Zanthos » Tue Jul 25, 2006 12:13 am

Yes, because that is how they wanted it to be.
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Postby Nixit » Tue Jul 25, 2006 12:17 am

And this is on every newbie guide out there for Cantr.
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Postby west » Tue Jul 25, 2006 5:31 am

It'd be like suddenly announcing that all maps of the world have to have East as up, or South. People are SO used to north being up (even though it's completely arbitrary whether N or S is up) that they'd raise a fuss.

Granted, cantr doesn't have rotation, and it's a torus rather than a sphere, but the basic premise is the same. Cantr has had west=up for 80 years. No need to change it.
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Postby wichita » Tue Jul 25, 2006 7:04 am

We're still talking about this? :|
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