In-Game MapsFollow

Only the maps for the cities and the adjacent zones have maps of them (with the stupid exception of Butcherblock), as well as the occasional out of the way place. Other than that, you have to make your own map, or download ones other people made and put them into your maps folder. EQ Atlas has most of the maps, but my favorite site (which has all of the LDoN maps too) is http://mapfiend.eq-toolbox.com/. There are several versions of each map, sometimes. I would give more of a tutorial, but that's what the map site is for...go and check it out, play around a bit.

Game on,

The Oneiromancer

There is a height filter button on the left hand side, which toggles the evelvation thingy on or off. Depending on what zone you are in, as you say, depends whether it is more useful to have it on or off.

By the by its also very useful, to turn the fade setting down on the window, right click on the bar at the top of the window for the options, that way you can keep it up as a kind of overlay, if you're a bit lost or legging it, without obscuring your view of the world about you.

The file name without the number is the default map. The ones with numbers are the "user" maps. You have to select those numbers on the map window for them to show up. The ones you download from Mapfiend are defaulted to the "1" slot but you can easily change that by changing the file name...I usually make all my maps the default slot. The only exceptions would be if you want new versions of the maps that come with EQ, because if you change those default ones the game will re-download them when the Patcher runs. (I think the Mapfiend forum is where all the instructions are, by the way.) Any zone that you have ever been to will have the 1-2-3 files created the first time you go there, although they will all be empty until you overwrite it yourself. Anyway, like I said, on the map UI window you can select or deselect the main and 1-2-3 maps, so check those out first. It may be defaulted to deselect the user maps.

The only other possibility I can think of is a simple one: are you too far zoomed in? Sometimes the map zoom changes when you zone.

If you get it to work, and think that the color schemes suck on the user-made maps, you can use a program called Mappie to change all instances of one color line at once. It's pretty cool for some of those maps which were done by someone with a different color map background than the rest of us. (Although I think some of them are light colors intentionally so the map is like an overlay when it is faded.)

Game on,

The Oneiromancer

Something must be bugged then. I have installed LoY, and yet 1) these maps don't work, and 2) My bank is only ?8 slots and not ?16 like the manual says.

Maybe its because I first got PoP which is EQ and PoP expansion only; then I bought Evolutions which is EQ and all expansions through LoY. I installed Evolutions on top of PoP, got no errors and to my newbie brain it looked like it was working.

I wonder if I uninstall the whole thing & reinstall only Evolutions, extreme but probably would work. But I don't want to lose my char!

Make sure LoY is registared correctly. You very well could have installed fine and just not have it registtared to your account properly.

Click the update exspansions button no the server selection screen. If you are not registared there you will need your key code at that point.

sbs you were correct. Even though the update expansions screen was fine, and the game showed all expansions installed and working, because I didn't put in the registration code I got nothing. Thanks all.