You can always get North back by right clicking and selecting it, Sake. Are you proposing two pointers on the compass, one for North and one for target, mission, resource, whatever? I think that might be hard to design in addition to needing some serious coding.
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Remembering Tyneetryk
Phaedreas Tears - 15 years old and first(*) of true neutral guilds in Atys.
(*) This statement is contested, but we are certainly the longest lasting.
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