PlaneShift
Gameplay => Wish list => Topic started by: Total_CDRW on May 11, 2003, 05:03:03 am
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Dear Developers,
PlaneShift needs either shorter loading times, zones, and animations to keep users entertained...
The Loading time should be shorter especially with my Athlon 1500, GeForce 4, and 300kb Cable Connection... make the game slightly more web based... So that it processes some files while is sent \"Pre-Processed\" files according to your bandwidth... This might be one way to shorten Loading Times...
And about Zones... Many game\'s have zones... What would be really nice would be seemless zones... To have the game devided... but yet have adjacent zones partially loaded... or loaded in the background. Zone quality might be adjusted according to how many people are in the zone... and if too many people are in the zone... have appropriate removal schemes... (Such as some other way of dispersing people through a zone or group of zones... Like have an overpopulation icon in the corner... and if the player doesnt move within 15 seconds transfer them to a less populated area away from hazards... such as monsters and clifs.)
Finally, If loading must persist, at least entertain the user... Possibly with 3D - Low Quality, Still Viewable, overhead footage of the town... Or a Areal Photograph of the particular area to be loaded. If you have to, a Tic-Tac-Toe Game! Just something to make the loading faster! (Or what i though of, give the user\'s account 1 Diamond, or some other currency for every 3 mins of loading... and save the loading time it takes... time stamp a temporary, possibly encrypted, file before and after loading times...)
Hopefully this can help you Devs on what to add to make happy End Users!