[Suggestion with Mock-Ups]

Improving Planetside 2's 'Strategic Map'

RPS] Cooper -- VS -- Miller

Summary: Five changes to the map at a large scale (when fully 'zoomed out') to increase the amount of usable information for strategic decision making.

Below are 5 steps suggested to change this to

increase

the amoun t of usab le informa tion in the ‘s tr at eg ic ma p’ (w he n zo om ed ou t fu ll y) an d at th e sa me ti me

reduce

the amou nt of visua l complexity. It is based upon cartography design that

abstracts and simplifie s

the representation of information as scale increases. For the impatient the first image is an example of the ‘final product’. It is not expected you would have all layers visib le like this, so it does look clut tere d. At the end of this docume nt are some example of what it looks like with various layers of information switched off.

Full Mock Up of a Section