Already Suggested: Different level of magnification

[DeletedUser17180]

Has this been already suggested?

Like the title says.
I think it's a good idea to have various level of magnification. Our cities expand as we advance, and a single zoom-out level cannot display all the city area. Most of the time, we'll be dragging the map around, and since the buildings get bigger after each era, I think giving a third zoom-out option wouldn't be such a bad idea after all. We could even have 5 levels of magnification, if that's not a problem.

What do you think?

 

[DeletedUser]

I would support a zoom out to view the whole landscape; it would be nice to appreciate the whole city from afar. Although the image below isn't the full landscape, it gives an idea of what it would look like.

 

[DeletedUser1081]

Adding another level of zoom-out has indeed been suggested before - more than once, including once by me. Since the search gizmo won't show me page 2 of my search results the only example I can offer is this one:
http://forum.en.forgeofempires.com/showthread.php?8640-Visual-of-City-Improvement
which isn't a very good example since the zoom-out idea is bundled in with some others, including one big "no way" idea that deflected the whole discussion.

 

[DeletedUser9168]

A previous request for this facility can be found here http://forum.en.forgeofempires.com/showthread.php?10331-Reduction-of-city-map

and somewhat similar idea here
http://forum.en.forgeofempires.com/showthread.php?8408-Larger-map-to-properly-view-all-the-buildings

 

[DeletedUser17180]

The reason why I think there's only 2 zoom levels is because of the lack of anti-aliasing option in flash players for images. Every component in FoE is image-based, and by zooming out, we're basically making the dimensions of the images smaller. And since flash player lacks anti-aliasing, the result would be ugly, pixely interface. I'm guessing InnoGames made two different versions of the same image for the zoom-in and zoom-out, hence leaving us with only 2 zoom levels. And this is basically the only reason why I mentioned a 3D version of the game on my last thread. 3D interfaces manage image anti-aliasing pretty well.
Making vector based objects/assets would be a common suggestion, but I'm guessing that the developers wanted to remain authentic with the looks, and clearly this has restricted certain functional aspects of a game.

Also, is the game really in beta?