Fix Delve Subterranean Chart not staying in the location where I put it

If I talk to Niko and zoom to some spot and close it and then open it again it will not open to the spot I zoomed before when I closed it. Its one of the misfeatures in PoE. It doesnt even open consistently to the spot I last was in Delve either. Sometimes it will zoom to some other far away spot I was long ago. No idea how this can pass playtesting. It should be really simple to remember the location I zoomed to. And make 2 buttons, one for "zoom to last delved node" and one for "zoom to deepest delved node". Massive QoL improvement. Those charts can get really huge.

If you click on the candle you will always go back to the last place that you visited in the mine. Of course this only works if you have not left the mine. If you head to the surface, leave the mine, then the view when you next open the mine window will be that spot that you last left the mine from.

So, as you say, "If I talk to Niko and zoom to some spot and close it and then open it again it will not open to the spot I zoomed before when I closed it." you can talk to Niko and zoom to some spot. Leave the mine, say to your hideout, and when you open it again it will open to last spot that you zoomed to.

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Turtledove wrote:

If you click on the candle you will always go back to the last place that you visited in the mine.

Ok.

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Turtledove wrote:

Of course this only works if you have not left the mine. If you head to the surface, leave the mine, then the view when you next open the mine window will be that spot that you last left the mine from.

Usually. I remember that not being always the case though. Thats what I meant with "It doesnt even open consistently to the spot I last was in Delve either.". No idea what triggers this though.

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Turtledove wrote:

So, as you say, "If I talk to Niko and zoom to some spot and close it and then open it again it will not open to the spot I zoomed before when I closed it." you can talk to Niko and zoom to some spot. Leave the mine, say to your hideout, and when you open it again it will open to last spot that you zoomed to.

Not sure what you are trying to say. But for me it doesnt do that. At least with Niko in the hideout. It will zoom back to some other spot - probably the last visited node.

If one goes to one's hideout then the next time the map of the mine is opened it is always the last place you visited in the mine.

I assume what you're referring to is that the mine map is a bit unpredictable as to where it opens when opening it without going to the surface. However, in that case just click on the candle on the upper left side of the mine map and you will always go back to the last place you visited.

If what you are referring to is looking at the mine map and then moving it to a new position with the cursor but not visiting anything in the mine. Closing the mine map then opening the mine map and expecting the map to be in that particular spot it was moved to. That is definitely not how it works. That would interfere with the implicit rule that GGG tries to position the mine map in the last visited spot so that one can pick up delving where last left off.

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Turtledove wrote:

If what you are referring to is looking at the mine map and then moving it to a new position with the cursor but not visiting anything in the mine. Closing the mine map then opening the mine map and expecting the map to be in that particular spot it was moved to.

Yes, that is what I meant.

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Turtledove wrote:

That is definitely not how it works.

Thats why I made this topic. Those charts can get really big. The mere act of scrolling to the target location - even if I know exactly where I want to go - already takes too much time/effort IMO. And if I dont remember the exact spot I found before I have to search all over again.

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Zrevnur wrote:

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Turtledove wrote:

If what you are referring to is looking at the mine map and then moving it to a new position with the cursor but not visiting anything in the mine. Closing the mine map then opening the mine map and expecting the map to be in that particular spot it was moved to.

Yes, that is what I meant.

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Turtledove wrote:

That is definitely not how it works.

Thats why I made this topic. Those charts can get really big. The mere act of scrolling to the target location - even if I know exactly where I want to go - already takes too much time/effort IMO. And if I dont remember the exact spot I found before I have to search all over again.

In that situation, what I do is after positioning the map where I want it then I go down into the mine and then open the mine map and click on the hideout icon in the upper left of the screen. The next time I open the mine map then the map will be in the position that I want it to be in.

I wouldn't want it to work the way that you suggest because if I was scrolling around the mine map looking at stuff then it wouldn't open in the spot that I last visited the mine.

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Turtledove wrote:

In that situation, what I do is after positioning the map where I want it then I go down into the mine and then open the mine map and click on the hideout icon in the upper left of the screen. The next time I open the mine map then the map will be in the position that I want it to be in.

This would be a workaround with drawbacks but better than nothing. Just tested - it takes me ~7 seconds loading times to go there and back. And I may also lose portals due to leaving hideout.
Anyway - unfortunately it does not work for me. I did go to some node far away from the bottom and after returning to hideout the chart was again centered on the bottom with the just visited node nowhere in sight.

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Turtledove wrote:

I wouldn't want it to work the way that you suggest because if I was scrolling around the mine map looking at stuff then it wouldn't open in the spot that I last visited the mine.

But it would only take one or two button/s to give both features. You could have exactly what you want and I could have exactly what I want.

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Zrevnur wrote:

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Turtledove wrote:

In that situation, what I do is after positioning the map where I want it then I go down into the mine and then open the mine map and click on the hideout icon in the upper left of the screen. The next time I open the mine map then the map will be in the position that I want it to be in.

This would be a workaround with drawbacks but better than nothing. Just tested - it takes me ~7 seconds loading times to go there and back. And I may also lose portals due to leaving hideout.
Anyway - unfortunately it does not work for me. I did go to some node far away from the bottom and after returning to hideout the chart was again centered on the bottom with the just visited node nowhere in sight.

You're correct. One has to kill a monster to make it register as a "visit" to the mine.

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Zrevnur wrote:

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Turtledove wrote:

I wouldn't want it to work the way that you suggest because if I was scrolling around the mine map looking at stuff then it wouldn't open in the spot that I last visited the mine.

But it would only take one or two button/s to give both features. You could have exactly what you want and I could have exactly what I want.

That would be nice. Probably easy to implement as well. The problem is that GGG would have to actually assign someone to implement it. :-)

I have had it now several times in sequence that I would visit a node in the delve and delve there to the next (or more) node. Then go back to Delve camp. Click on the Mineshaft. And the mine map would not be zoomed to the last visted but rather to the deepest node. For me now its "only" 200 depths or so distance between where I want it zoomed and where it does zoom. But I really wouldnt want that to happen if I would be at 1000 depth instead of ~320. This is definitly not working properly - not even in the IMO bad way of always zooming to the last visited.

Edit: And the chart could really use a "search" function to search for node types or some such things.