Anti-minimap.

[Random_White_Guy]

Sincerely dislike this suggestion.

[Cruzel]

( it would easily be possible to omit areas like the main ziggurat area from this blanking)

[efuincarnate]

I usually like Cruzel's suggestions, but just hate this one..still have a terrible time getting around with the minimap, without it, absolutley hopelss..and ig, my char should know his way around quite nicely by now..it is a computer game, afterall. If you make it tooo much like rl/work, it will suck the fun out of it, IMHO.

[The Crimson Magician]

I would figure that there's some sort of override that does that. Or since you're so good at scripting, Cruzel, I think you could do that. >_> But yeah, I have a problem with the mini-map, as it makes me metagame, since I have developed a habit to open and close it, without even thinking about it.

[Cruzel]

OP adjusted to clarify suggestion for those too lazy to read the whole thread.

[ExileStrife]

I would like the pink character location dots removed for players personally, as well as the small arrow and the ability to hover-over-the-party-icon-and-get-their-current-area.  But unfortunately, that's handled client side, and the client executable is encrypted unlike the server client.

The other method to do this is to disable parties altogether which I have heard some servers have recently tried and was done successfully.  Changes the way players play a bit, and definitely requires changing of a lot of scripts, but I'd like to hear from players if they've tried these servers before.

I don't think it would make sense to black the area on the map.  I think the vital metagaming issue is the pink dots, and blacking the area does nothing to remove those.

[RealGenius]

The pink dots are often metagamed, true, but there are other OOC issues to take into account.  In real-life, people do not have different transition load times, do not randomly go AFK and get left behind.  When people are travelling in a big cluster it's not very common to just lose somebody and have that person not be able to catch up.  (I am thinking of sparsely populated areas, in a large city getting lost in the crowd is pretty easy).  It is bad when people use this to magically track down somebody whose battle icon is flashing under their portrait, or when somebody mysteriously runs off without telling the party and somehow, magically, everyone finds them, but it is a good thing, I would say, in situations where somebody has a slow load time but otherwise no IC reason where they wouldn't be able to keep up with the group.