Currently I have no Townsfolk option on my Tracking.
What it should look like:
What MINE looks like:
Can anyone suggest if this is fixable ingame, or is it a bug?
/run SetCVar("minimapTrackingShowAll",1)Yes, I know it helps. This is the bug report forum, so I’m reporting a bug that only some odd little script fixes. Obviously a thing not operating as intended.
By “fixable ingame” I mean some ticky box I needed to tick, for example.
It’s not a bug. It was a change with the dragonflight prepatch UI overhaul. Most of the townsfolk tracking was enabled by default and then the option to track them hidden by default. The way to bring back the old functionality is to change the CVar (console variable), which defaults to 0 (off), to 1 (on). This specific CVar has a game specific scope, so you only need to change it once and it will apply to all characters.
And why isn’t the change universal? Why isn’t it available ingame? Why is the only way you can fix it by using a script nobody ingame would know about?
This specific CVar is game specific instead of character specific, so will apply to all characters.
There are hundreds of CVars that are hidden from the player that can be viewed with the Advanced Interface Options addon. I can only speculate as to why there aren’t option toggles for everything (maybe they don’t want a long list of options as a means of streamlining the barrier of entry to new players).
Again, and for the last time - why is it necessary to use an externally-obtained script to activate a UI function?
And I repeat, it is a bug because the things that Tracking provides haven’t been removed, some players (like me) just couldnt see them.
I’ll just leave it at that and go on with my game.
Intentional design changes aren’t bugs. All players have the same tracking options by default, with townsfolk disabled, which is the second picture you linked. Anyone with it different has either enabled the CVar manually, or is using an addon.