Arena talk:Maps

Putting the Dungeons and the Main Map Images

Hey we've now confirmed that the dungeons in Arena are fixed, with 14 dungeons appearing in each province at specific locations on the game maps -- and if they're fixed that pretty much means the game developers intentionally placed them where they are.

While I think it's good and cool that we have separate maps of just the dungeons of Arena on Arena:Maps, I think the main maps with city/village/town labels on them ought to have the dungeons map markers on them as well -- especially the main quest dungeons (because ascertaining where those main quest dungeons are located right now is a pain to track down). The rest of the dungeons have randomly generated names and can stay go unlabeled. Having all the dungeons on those images would convey that these locations exist and provide additional quality information to our users. I would be happy to take care of the image updating required for this change.

I think also, having the province maps with labels on province lore pages would be a lot more helpful for users than the blank maps we have now.

Thoughts on these suggestions, yo? --TheRockWithAMedicineCupOnHisHead (talk) 12:59, 2 May 2025 (UTC)

I agree with having combined maps of both settlements and fixed/named dungeons. --Rezalon (talk) 13:37, 2 May 2025 (UTC)

Do the dungeons have specific names? The imagemaps are a pain to make, so preserving the old images as well as possible is preferable. However, I don't mind to take a shot at it to recreate those if someone wants to create the merged maps with the additional dungeons and names. --Ilaro (talk) 21:07, 2 May 2025 (UTC)

Nope, they do not. The dungeon names themselves are randomly generated each playthrough. I'd reckon we just leave them unlabeled but present, aside from the 2 main quest dungeons which really ought to have labels

I'd be happy to update all the map images on my end yo. --TheRockWithAMedicineCupOnHisHead (talk) 23:21, 2 May 2025 (UTC)

Just to be sure, when I say image map, I mean the clickable polygons on the map that brings you to the corresponding city/village page. I don't mind to redo them, but if you can or want to do that yourself, then I'm fine with that too of course. Otherwise, if you're on Discord and can show me a concept of a map with both dungeons and locations plus their names, I can take a look how easy it is to remake the image maps. --Ilaro (talk) 18:04, 3 May 2025 (UTC)

Agreed on everything, but were you thinking of editing the dungeons into the old town maps or remaking them from scratch? If the latter then there are other improvements that could be made while you're at it: there are a few errors in the place names that need fixing (like "First Hold"), and the aspect ratio ought to be corrected (the current maps use square pixels but the game is meant to be stretched to 4:3, you can scale the width x5 and the height x6 to get the proper pixel aspect ratio without blurring). Boustrophedon (talk) 16:05, 4 May 2025 (UTC)