Unfinished update?

while doing my ranger insignia i opened up the mini map and noticed these symbols on the map, it did not show them while the minimap is opened in town, sorry if this has been posted before, i just thought it was interesting as i have never seen it before....

Since you are standing in the festival area, I think this is a left-over of it.

Wow, that's new.. I gotta log in and seeeeee

edit: Bleh, I don't have those. Looks like a neat feature, but why is it enabled only when you aren't in town?

edit+: Went to do an Instructor Ng-course at the Monastary Outlook, and now I see the icons too. One pointing out where the Henchmen are, and another pointing out the storage. Nothing for merchants tho. Some feature that isn't finished/patched in globally yet?

edit++: not festival-area-proof-foo

I noticed that too on my mesmer. Strange, since you can't actually reach the "Storage" and "Henchmen" while in the dojo.

How did you do that? I can't do that !

yeah, it has nothing to do with the festival IMO as it seemed familier from when i did on my assasin, and thats where you do the insignia tests

that looks pretty nice (oh, and i dont have it either:P)

That would have been nice feature for the newbies when in their first town. But I suppose they should have gone and added those markers to every town then.

I'd think that it'd be pretty much automatic, just center the icons according to the location of the NPCs. Henchies and storage agents are pretty much in one spot in every map, after all. Depends on the Devs and how easy would implementing stuff like that be. Looks like they are static markers now, since they only appear in one zone, and that zone doesn't even have those NPCs in it.

Post #1000, whee :P

i tried it in kaineng, zoning and looking and without zoning, nothing...

hmmm Interesting, it seems to be part of a soon to be added in feature maybe? I hope that is the case as this would be useful for everyone. Sometimes remembering the location of the henchies and Storage is a pain.

Hate having to run about with CTRL and ALT held down to find them both.

Maybe they will have the icons in your mini radar o.o

that would REALLY help

It seams to be a feature to explain things to new players( festival place is PRE-Sear normally)

Arena net please dont abandon the update, keep it going this would be awesome, it gets quite annoying when you have to tell people where storage and etc is...

that would be a very cool update

This would be an excellent update... but if the people that ask those questions are too stupid to hold down the Alt button, what makes you think they can read a map?

It's not necessarily a too stupid thing. Sometimes when you're in a big city like Droknars Forge, you can easily be out of range of Storage while at, say the Merchant. First time I was there, I walked around for at least 5 minutes holding ALT looking for the Xunlai.

This update would most definately kick ass. Bring it, Anet!

thats true...

yeah i think it would be a handy update too. I mean why not it only helps. A friend of mine was in Asclaon (then comes the question as to if prophices will get this too but lets not go there ) and couldn't find armor, also was unaware that there was such things a material trader...

so yeah mainly for newbies but i'm sure like someone posted above if i was in a bigger city i'd probably just open my mini map to get a general idea of how everything is set up.

Personally I think it would be a bad idea, it would just clutter up the map with all of those NPC's. That's what alt is for, and you will learn where things are after a very short time. And if youre sick of telling people where npc's are, then just ignore them if they ask, not that hard.