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TL;DR

Stone needs to be more easily visible on the map.

What?

The issue is that in the new version the colors of some ground tiles are very close to the color of stone. This makes it very hard to spot stone. I've uploaded a map preview as an experiment, there are at least five stone patches in there. It took me more than a minute to spot them.

I have multiple ideas on how this could be fixed. For one, the game could automatically generate map markers for each resource patch. This might break some mods which change map generation so it might help to make this an optional feature or something the player can trigger rather than something that happens automatically in the background. Another idea is to make graphical adaptions, like giving the patches an outline.

This applies to a lesser degree to iron patches on the darker desert terrain. It would also help if trees were just a bit easier to see on desert terrain.

There are no stone patches in the screenshot!

But i would like some hotkey to highlight resources in the game and in mini map regardless.
After the addition of more and more decorative stuff, even coal and iron can be hard to see sometimes. Would be great to have the option of assining a key for a "highlight resources" functionality that would literally make all resources glow like uranium or flash or get fully saturated colored outlines or something like that.

Another option would be to have a toggle, for the colors of the terrain. One setting, it's all flat grey (or white or some other sensible color), and the other shows the full topography, etc. That would at least make the stone, iron, coal patches stand out more. We've got toggles to show/not-show on the map pollution, trains, turrets, etc. One more for the topography wouldn't be out of place. : )

Agreed! The stone patches on many terrain types are completely invisible. Very frustrating!!

Oktokolo wrote:There are no stone patches in the screenshot!

they are really hard to see.

impetus maximus wrote:

Oktokolo wrote:There are no stone patches in the screenshot!

gravel patches shown

gravel_patches.png

they are really hard to see.

It looks to me like you just circled random patches of the map.

garath wrote: It looks to me like you just circled random patches of the map.

it wasn't easy. i probably missed some.