Map search improvement: highlight hovered search result

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Map search improvement: highlight hovered search result

Post by mwls »

What?
When hovering over a result when searching the map (chart), highlight that result on the map in some way (maybe make it blink continuously, or change color, or show a large map marker 📍).
Why?
When deciding on a new ore patch to expand to, I'd like to quickly see where they are in relation to my main base. I want to choose one that has a good location that's not too far away and maybe is adjacent to some other nice patches, not just go with the biggest one. With the current process, I have to click each result, then zoom back out until my base is visible, keeping track of where that result was. The mini map popup is nice but doesn't really help me find the patch in context. With this change I could quickly move my mouse down the list of results and get a good sense of where each ore patch is without having to move the map at all.

I could temporarily pin them to get a large marker to appear, but that's inconvenient as I can't unpin them from the same view (clicking the pin button multiple times adds duplicate pins rather than unpinning).

Current search experience:
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