Aging eyes need better compasses and maps

Discussion in 'The Veterans' Lounge' started by Gentsia, Feb 11, 2022.

  1. Gentsia Apprentice

    I've been playing for 20 years (ack!). I've had cataract surgery and my close up vision is not the same. I have so much trouble reading the map and compass, as in I can't even see where my group is. I've made the compass dark...can't do much else with it. I've made my hotbars bigger I've changed the font. Those help with the rest of the UI, but the compass...seriously. And the map this expansion ToL in particular, I have a hard time seeing the lines and the players and even my own X. I have played with tint, texture, alpha, faded, my color, group color...and i cannot see the dang tunnels in Umbral! I can't see where group is in like Shadow Valley or Bloodfalls. On raids, they are calling move North! Northwest! and I can't see the compass...i just have to follow and I am not someone to ever miss emotes or not move.

    Any suggestions? In CoV and ToV i turned gamma way down to see and turned off some stuff in advanced display and it helped.

    I use the default UI; no need to worry about patches. I do use MANY options the UI offers of which most people are unaware. I use /viewport for instance, assign icons to hotbuttons, etc.
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  2. Fenthen aka Rath

    You can check out modded windows, compasses and such, from EQInterface.
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  3. Herf Augur

    The game in general really needs to invest in us long time players. The sole font size change doesn't affect all use of fonts in the game and offers extremely limited choices.
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  5. brickz Augur

    Windows key and + key brings up the magnifier if you weren't using it already
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  6. Deckerd Smeckerd Augur

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  7. Shaiken Journeyman

    My aging eyes would love a way to turn off the bobbing animation when on certain mounts. They are starting to make me very motion sick.