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#### zoom zoom ... zoom

Zoom is back, and it uses the minus and plus/equal keys on your keyboard (next to the number row on a US keyboard) instead of the mouse wheel. The zero key resets your zoom, as does going into AFK (four key).
I've lifted (at least temporarily) the restrictions on zoom level, so you should not need the /zoom command anymore. However, I do restrict it a little differently for each location to make sure they look as the designers intended.

Posted 9 months ago by Jono | Permalink

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- happy happy happy happy with this
  Posted 9 months ago by bleefish | Permalink
- Thank you so much for deciding to keep the zoom and having the adjustable zoom limit is excellent and much appreciated!
  Posted 9 months ago by TomC | Permalink
- Some changes will be coming to snapshotting sometime soon. So those of you concerned with taking screenshots of whole locations ... maybe that will come 'round another way.
  Posted 9 months ago by stoot barfield | Permalink
- Jono, I still disagree -- my /home street should look the same, but it doesn't, depending on the path I've taken to get there:
  1) I go /home, run a resource route. Zoom never changes, even when I end up back on my /home street.
  2) I go /home, enter house [zoom reduced], then exit the house -- /home street now is all different, when it was the same when I took path #1
  Posted 9 months ago by Sturminator 5 | Permalink
- Sturminator 5, I get that you disagree, but: I have the responsibility to the players, to the team, to our investors, etc. and we have to choose priorities very carefully. Simple fact is that there are more important things we can do right now — and we gotta do the most important things first. So, like I said, you are going to have to live with it :)
  Posted 9 months ago by stoot barfield | Permalink
- Not working on my UK MBP either. I used the keys next to the 0, the + and - ones. :)
  it worked on my windows laptop at work
  (I tried leaving the location)
  Posted 9 months ago by shhexy corin | Permalink
- Sturminator, just zoom out when you get home? The math doesn't change based on your path -- just the last zoom level.
  Unless you are telling me you cannot zoom out as far using the keyboard in the same location depending on how you got there -- that would be something to fix. But the zoom level you have when you enter a location will change.
  Posted 9 months ago by Jono | Permalink
- So, like I said, you are going to have to live with it :)
  Oh noes! I think I will have to nibble my way across Groddle Meadow twice to deal with my unbearable sadness. Yes, I'm sure 4,000 meat will help me cope. *sniff*
  Posted 9 months ago by Sturminator 5 | Permalink
- Intermittent keyboard failure has been fixed!
  Posted 9 months ago by Jono | Permalink
- Any chance of a default save setting?
  Posted 9 months ago by призрака | Permalink
- Fnibbit will do thanks...I am sure it is working the way it's supposed to..im not bothered about the camera zoom...at the moment , im just happy I now know how to zoom.. :) Although if people wants a better camera zoom I will surely support that too ;D..Thanks again for replying to me and helping. x
  Posted 9 months ago by Cryztal | Permalink
- I love it. It's much cleaner to view and easier to handle with the symbols on the keyboard.
  TS You're such hard workers! ty <3
  Posted 9 months ago by Eye Wonder | Permalink
- Thank you for this feature. I love having the ability to zoom out to see more of the big picture of a location. I have used it mostly in the mining areas and enjoy the expanded image of the fabulous graphics. Love it!
  Posted 9 months ago by Breezy Meadow | Permalink
- For what it's worth, The Lots of Shiny Objects post was not zoomed in any way.
  I snapshot as wide as my viewport is and stitch the photos together in photoshop.
  Posted 9 months ago by HeyGabe | Permalink
- RIP /Zoom 0.3 in GoC, the only advantage I had over others who didn't use it... xD
  Posted 9 months ago by Rook | Permalink
- Jono - Thanks so much for all your work and for the excellent communication here. I am using this feature all the time now, and it's greatly adding to my enjoyment of the game. Kudos!
  Posted 9 months ago by Splendora | Permalink
- Thanks Splendora!
  Posted 9 months ago by Jono | Permalink
- Fantastic, absolutely fantastic! Definitely a keeper!
  I love this new feature, and just like Splendora, I use it *all* the time now: especially handy and adorable when wandering on a street. (I minimized it all the way to the tiniest, and strangely, I prefer it over the current default one...) THANKS again TS!! :DD
  Posted 9 months ago by Maruchan | Permalink
- I love the zoom feature, too! Like many above, I use it all the time.
  However, as I wandered the AL today at maximum zoom out, the Rube came to trade with me. Once I began the trade, the - and + butons stopped working! I was unable to zoom back in to see what it was that he was offering. The speech bubble was too small and pixelated to read. What if he offered me a doll?!
  Is this the proper place to report this and ask to get it fixed? Should I submit a bug report? Post in the ideas forum?
  Posted 9 months ago by Squiggle-Squee | Permalink
- We're going to auto zoom you back in when a conversation starts, then zoom you back out when it's over.
  Posted 9 months ago by Jono | Permalink
- Great! That's perfect, Thanks!
  Posted 9 months ago by Squiggle-Squee | Permalink
- I've noticed today that the zoom resets to 1 after trading with the Rube and when you play the crab a block.
  Posted 9 months ago by Vogon Blarg | Permalink
- my plus and minus don't work.
  Posted 9 months ago by AwesomeCardinal2000 | Permalink
- Now it Zooms in and out for the Rube, and stays out for the Crab, nice work!
  Posted 9 months ago by Vogon Blarg | Permalink
- Ok. I never knew zoom even previously existed. Was this something from Alpha?
  Posted 9 months ago by Fokian Fool | Permalink
- Fokian, zoom is back from... a week ago.
  Posted 9 months ago by Jono | Permalink
- Yesterday I was talking to the mail frog and the auto zoom worked but didn't zoom back to what I had it set at when it was done.
  Posted 9 months ago by diaveborn ♥ | Permalink
- We're not zooming back out for the time being. You will have to use physical dexterity and mental acuity to restore your previous zoom level.
  Posted 9 months ago by Jono | Permalink
- Okay awesome :) I'm sorry, just got confused with the verb tenses and such - my fault.
  Posted 9 months ago by diaveborn ♥ | Permalink
- Yeah, this was a lot more useful when the player could decide for themselves how far out they wanted to zoom... it's been pretty well nerfed into uselessness for anything I'd use zoom for now.
  Oh well. Didn't have zoom before, don't have it again. :/
  Posted 9 months ago by Djabriil | Permalink
- I'm glad you changed it because the scroll gesture on my mac was not cutting it.
  Posted 9 months ago by Samerina | Permalink
- On my Norwegian keyboard on a Macbook Air with Lion, the + key zooms OUT and the accent key zooms IN. On this pic, key nr 12 zooms out and 13 zooms in.
  www.penticoff.com/nb/images...
  Posted 9 months ago by Sveur | Permalink
- Jono, thanks again for the per-location zoom limits. Northern Aranna is really awesome when zoomed out.
  Posted 9 months ago by Sturminator MoOre | Permalink

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