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Map display issues

Kezz Mauriac
Registered User
Join date: 27 Sep 2005
Posts: 19
12-02-2006 06:47
I've looked through the Technical Issues thread, and haven't found anyone else reporting this issue so I will take the liberty to.

For the past several weeks, when I open up the world map, it will not completely load at certain zoom levels. The mainland always loads at every zoom level, but when it comes to islands and estates, they remain completely invisible to me no matter how long I sit there and wait for them to load their graphics. The only way I can get an island to load is if I zoom in to maximum zoom, and hope like mad that there is an island under me to be rezzed. Once I can get one island to display, all of the others around it pop in as well, but what's worse is even after I've gotten an island to display, I can only view it in the closest zoom levels. If I zoom out more than about 30 percent, it disappears and refuses to scale to the next zoom level graphic.

I enjoy taking random trips to random islands every once in a while, and as you can suspect this issue is maddening. If I could get some answers, or at least an acknowledgement about what exactly is going on, that'd be great.
Thili Playfair
Registered User
Join date: 18 Aug 2004
Posts: 2,417
12-02-2006 12:07
Its been like this since they changed map awhile ago, since we could see much sharper and detailed the view distance on small landmass or single sims doesnt exsist, mainland and huge masses youll see.

Annoying yes very, i used to hop around to new sims see what they where up to, nowadays zooom ALLLL the way in to find one no good.

Reported it several months ago but it prob drowned to, map is useless as it is now, only way you can see sims is to tick > Telehubs on <, then you can see sims even at furthest out, ugly as it is.
Kezz Mauriac
Registered User
Join date: 27 Sep 2005
Posts: 19
12-02-2006 17:35
So, is it going to be fixed sometime, or is it going to be like this long-term?