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I know its a small thing but often in the game the quests will tell you to go north or west or some such and I've never seen a compass anywhere to tell me which way I'm actually facing without opening the minimap and just judging the which was is north by the camera angle.  I know it's a small UI issue and maybe it's there and I just have never noticed it but an actual compass up in the corner of the screen would be kind of nice to have.

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Reply #1 from Elemental Forums Top

I'm sure the designers could come up with a good looking compass too.  I usually scroll out to the cloth map because it's easer to tell which way is north.

I do have the problem when a resource is destroyed and the message will say it's a goldmine in the northwest or something like that.  Ideally, the camera would scroll quickly to it, because the event usually has happened in an area of the map I'm not paying attention to.

Reply #2 from Elemental Forums Top

North is up on the minimap, which can be opened with a button in the upper right portion of the screen.

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Reply #3 from Elemental Forums Top

I've seen one when browsing the game data but apparently it's not being used.

It's not a "functional" one but apparently an ornamentation because it includes some kind of banner, intended to show text.

Reply #4 from Elemental Forums Top

Some logic would be required to dictate placement, but it should be okay to make it appear on the cloth map.