I have gotten to the point that I cannot use Firefox for FL at all, so I have to open Chrome just to play (which caused me to play less as it is). No idea why such a popular browser such as Firefox still has problems.

After the very first day of beta, when everything was very jerky and lagging, they made a few changes and I haven't had any issues with the map whatsoever since that day. None at all. I'm sad to see so many people still having problems but hey, it's only been a few days since public release. This is not unexpected and I'm sure most of these issues can be untangled over time.

• The non-interactive map - or equivalently, the interactive one in zoomed in state - is huge, cannot be zoomed out, and has to be dragged around. Some people have complained that there is a large amount of free space around it. I play on a smaller screen, and I'm sure mobile phones don't have much space available either. There is no conceivable reason the map couldn't be made smaller to fit on the screen - even if you wanted to fit the extra locations, you could do so by increasing the map size slightly, not by making it gigantic.
• The interactive map is especially grating given the need to zoom in before doing anything. My browser has WebGL turned off, so when I saw the giant, painful experience of the "compatibility version", I had some hope that the full version was more usable. After enabling WebGL I was met with the exact same experience, except requiring an extra click and waiting for an extra zoom-in animation before having the privilege to start dragging the map around.
• The map now sticks around for about a second after travelling to a new place before fading out. Like many of the other issues, this doesn't sound like much - and the first time I tried using the map, I barely even noticed it - but it very quickly became extremely grating. In regular play, this is infuriating.
• Replacing the text with icons made locations harder to quickly find. I wouldn't mind this too much if the locations remained in the same places they always have been - the rearranging of locations that came with the website redesign was far more jarring in that regard - but the fact that the map has to be dragged around, meaning locations don't even have a set place on the screen anymore, does magnifiy the annoyance of not being able to recognise them at a glance.
• All of the above issues are greatly amplified by the splitting of locations. I can somewhat understand the reasoning behind that - the effort for a more "immersive" experience, to group things spatially and require travel between places that aren't immediately adjacent. However, combined with the rest of the redesign, the effect is to make the new experience even more unpleasant: firstly, what used to take a fraction of a second now takes multiple seconds filled with animations, panning, zooming, fading, and what used to be almost muscle memory now requires proper focus, reading through names and trying to find the right location; and at the same time, a change is implemented that requires performing the above even more frequently than was previously necessary, amplifying the annoyance and frustration.

The compatibility map has been resized to fit without dragging, with an option to zoom in if desired! Thank you so much to the Failbetter team!

Sounds like this could be solved by having the browser remember zoom level. Then you could play in zoomed-in compatibility mode by default.

the problem with the map is its quite good it just needs a few tweeksI think that a lot of the maps problems could be solved by being able to enter an area without zooming in (I am also aware that making such changes would probably do more harm than good)

I'm all for including sex work-related content, but the context - a throwaway line about how "low" a given district is - is a mite disrespectful and generally overly stuffy.

Safest bet would probably be to remove the reference to sex work altogether - it's not like it's central to the plot - and describe Veilgarden in other terms.

The game now crashes on the login screen, so I can't even access it.
I'm on a Kindle Fire so my memory's what it is, but I never had this kind of problem before...

I too can see only the old map, with no icons at all for travelling, save for the lodgings (social interactions?) on the top left corner. Account settings also don't show map settings. I am using Chrome in an Android device.

iiiii I'm in awe I love it its somewhat janky to navigate but I am not disappointed in the slightest
now let me look for all my property's on the map
edited by the old man on 3/4/2020

Lady Karnstein wrote:

I can no longer play on my phone, which makes me pretty unhappy honestly.

You may wish to try choosing the &quotCompatibility Map&quot (found in the Account Settings area) from your phone. I wasn't able to play on my aged Android phone until I did so.