Community Suggestion: Timeline Scaling
The current Timeline feature doesn't offer a way to change the view of scale of time within the timeline. I.e. If you want to have 40k worth of content, there's no way to change the view to make it more reasonable.
As it is now, there's a tool to click to the next event, but no readily apparent way to scale to see the entirety of the timeline as it gets longer/older. To continue the 40k example, there's no way to readily display the Age of Strife, Horus Heresy, and 40k. I could be wrong, but even after having 2 beers I should be able to find it in the UI.The Team's Response
Thanks for your suggestion! Currently, the "time zoom" you're looking for exists in Chronicles. In Timelines, the List Mode removes time gaps too, in case this is part of the problem. A future update to Timelines will introduce a feature to add "breaks" in Timescale mode to let you hide large gaps of empty time. Regarding seeing all eras at onces, the minimap on the right shows all eras on screen and lets you quickly move through the timeline. There are no plans to add a time zoom feature to Timelines, but I hope this (and the planned updates) will help you reduce the issues this causes. As a side note, the Team really enjoyed your idea of doing UI tests after two beers :)
Current score
39/300 Votes · +9305 points
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by themrbeasley
on 2024-09-25 19:00 -
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by Myridian-Eight
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by Rangersyl
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by A Beloved Mlem
on 2024-09-21 14:32 -
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by fwalton
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by ClockWorkCleo
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by storyauthor
on 2024-09-19 02:04 -
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by Maz_Cat
on 2024-09-18 05:10 -
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by J. J. Dyke
on 2024-09-17 14:17Yes - and maybe have the ability for someone viewing it to scale the whole timeline or just one era, since eras closer to the main plot will almost always have more detail than other eras.
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by A Enfeebled Goblin
on 2024-09-17 09:18 -
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by bphilippe
on 2024-09-17 07:05 -
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by A Rambunctious Velociraptor
on 2024-09-17 03:38 -
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by Inferus0
on 2024-09-17 03:01 -
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by WolfofWinter
on 2024-09-17 00:30 -
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by Bluecatperson
on 2024-09-16 18:02 -
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by WeStanNikolai
on 2024-09-16 15:44 -
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by Amancham
on 2024-09-16 10:32 -
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by PoppaeaSabina
on 2024-09-16 07:33 -
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by AaLion
on 2024-09-15 15:20 -
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by GreyMireSkald
on 2024-09-15 04:10 -
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by KrissytheDragon
on 2024-09-13 17:50 -
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by A Enfeebled Hobbit
on 2024-09-12 05:18 -
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by Pheonixhat
on 2024-09-10 17:16 -
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by Those2Nerds
on 2024-09-10 14:54Stuff like intercalary days makes this type of calculation technically difficult, but it would be so useful to have. Dimi mentioned an overhaul of the Time Management system tentatively beginning later in 2025, so if 'zooming out' isn't doable on current timelines, I'm hopeful it will be then.
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by BenScerri
on 2024-09-10 09:39 -
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by truedeath
on 2024-09-10 01:31 -
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by Observer of the Stars
on 2024-09-09 17:44 -
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by Gaëlle S.
on 2024-09-09 13:23 -
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by Sir Bressler
on 2024-09-09 13:10 -
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by A Lusty Unicorn
on 2024-09-08 19:41 -
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by Mme88
on 2024-09-08 04:02 -
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by ss2020
on 2024-09-07 22:09 -
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by TimesChu
on 2024-09-07 20:46This seems like a pretty obvious feature to add, yeah. At the very least, you should be able to zoom in and out to see more or less of the timeline without doing it through your browser and making the whole UI tiny.
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by ElFunkler
on 2024-09-06 19:56 -
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by Mekachu04
on 2024-09-06 15:41 -
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by TheMalachite.creates
on 2024-09-06 15:36 -
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by Willow H.R. Harper
on 2024-09-06 15:21 -
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by Ratha
on 2024-09-05 23:50 -
+300
by SkyBear
on 2024-09-05 20:58
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