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I know I am nit picking now, but i can't count how many times I open my full map and then hit ESC to exit the map only to bring up the main menu. Might just be me, but I would love to at the very least have the option to rebind this key to this function.

Matt

IMO, this should be implemented as it is expected behavior for most people.

I'm struggling badly with this as well. Another +1 for having the map view close with ESC.

DanielHall15 wrote:I'm struggling badly with this as well. Another +1 for having the map view close with ESC.

I was really puzzled why would anyone want to quit a map by pressing escape, since that would be sooo annoying.
So, thanks for your comment, which finally explains it's not a map, but in-game-map-view.

I suggest instead, that there should be no big difference between map and and normal view. I would like to zoom out and at some point the normal view blends over to a map view.
The map like now is for scrolling around. And yes, and exit button should be added.

LOL I too press ESC all the time to exit map, sadly it doesn't work.

ssilk wrote: I would like to zoom out and at some point the normal view blends over to a map view.

That would be slick, really smooth. I like it, maybe a final release idea.

I hate to necro, but this bothers me, is there a key-binding for map, and menu I suppose, I could live with escape being map, and like f10 being menu

You can change most keys, you know?

Turtle wrote:IMO, this should be implemented as it is expected behavior for most people.

Yup. As you say, expected behaviour. We already have a bunch of extremely well-established conventions for how PC computer game interfaces should function, and Factorio ought to acknowledge and respect them. Doing their own thing, because it's "cool" to be different from the crowd, is stupid. UI conventions exist to be convenient for the person, the player, so that he can more easily interact with the game, without having to think about how he moves his decisions from his brain to the game. So that the game becomes an extension of his will.



I like the idea of scroll wheel seamlessly zooming out to map, but I doubt it'd work well on current computers. Factorio already allows one to zoom out very far, compared to any other RTS game I've ever played, but I fear there might be glitches, slowdowns or the like, if the idea is implemented. Or at least if implemented it should be a feature that can be disabled, for the benefit of people with older computers. I'd only use that function myself if it played reliably lighting-fast on my computer.

There is another (more actual?) thread about this subject:

viewtopic.php?f=6&t=25149 Click-Draggable and Esc-Dismissable Map

I know it's an old thread but there's nothing wrong with Necroing the TOP RESULT on google for this problem. Why keep creating new threads when you can keep all the info in one place that google is already telling you is the answer to your question.

Sorry, /rant.

+1 for this. maybe it comes from WoW but I constantly hit esc to get back to the default ui. I'm used to having it so only once all panels on the ui are closed does the 'esc menu' appear.

Edit: I've just noticed the character menu has the desired behaviour. if you press esc while the character screen is up it closes it and doesn't open the esc menu. the menu opens if you press esc again (without any panels on the UI)

dispensershell wrote: +1 for this. maybe it comes from WoW but I constantly hit esc to get back to the default ui.

I've never played WoW, but I also keep hitting escape go get out of the map view; it's a pretty common thing. I usually end up hitting escape about five times before I remember to hit 'M'; it works better when games work with muscle-memory rather than against it.

I'm not sure in which version, but this has now been implemented. Hurrah! =).

dispensershell wrote:I'm not sure in which version, but this has now been implemented. Hurrah! =).

Implemented in 0.13.0. Pressing E will also close the map.