Yes, this is going to remain this way for now. There's something complicated about what we had to do to make it work across street changes and game physics, and with some needed to take it out for at least the time being. We don't know when/if it will be back, however.
I meant to say we love both the ability to zoom (which we still can) and the zoom persisting (nice phrase) - hope that comes back, having to use the - key after every transition to a new street is a bit of a bind :(
Add my vote to "please change it to persistent zoom as soon as it's possible," if it's possible. Such a wonderful change this was, but for such a short time. Ah, well.
ya i love the zoom too, it's sort of a drag to have to re-zoom out each street. maybe the zoom level could be set as a default per player in a preferences page? that way the people on netbooks and with integrated graphics cards or visibility issues can keep the default 1.0 but those of us that run fine zoomed out can keep that default as well?thanks for all the hard work!
This mostly affects me when doing rapid street changes, like in the Ancestral Lands, or when doing a "street run" to collect a single particular resource. It's pretty tedious to have to keep resetting it to the "zoom out" position.
It's not a big deal for tasks like mining or working around the house.
Perhaps as a compromise, you could make a "max zoom" key so we can simply hit that and keep running.