Development Cycle Archive
Thread: Publish 10 Feedback: GUI Enhancements
Malitevv
Wed Sep 01, 2004 11:56 am
#144
I don't know if this has been reported already, but something in the GUI enhancements has introduced horrible lag into the graphics engine on my system. I've /bugged it already, so I won't give you system details here. But it sucks. The graphics engine is regularly saturating the front-side-bus while I am standing perfectly stationary in a lag free location with nothing but a few buildings around me. Instead of running at a steady FPS in such a location, the FPS now oscillates with a 1 to 2 second period (from 30 fps to 4 fps to 30 fps to 4 fps, etc.) as thoughthe gameis constantly moving the same textures from main memory to graphics memory over and over and over again ad nauseum. It is ruining my game experience completely. I can't even write or read email in peace because the oscillations cause the games response to keyboard and mouse input to stall every 1 to 2 seconds also.
Malitevv
Wed Sep 01, 2004 11:58 am
#145
Dresdenkali wrote:
Cyryn_Azecks wrote:
First:
anyway, the names are a little too light for my taste.. anyway to put in an option to RAISE THE NAME COLOR? seeing light purple hurts your eyes...
On Tat the Colors are very hard too see. What ever the change is here needs to be reversed.
Actually, the colors are hard to see no matter where you are on my machine. Can we get an option in the guito put the name color back the way it was before or to give us enough control over it to correct the problems that the new scheme has created?
DeQuosaek
Wed Sep 01, 2004 12:03 pm
#146
I also want to add that I love being able to pull my speeder and droid with the press of a key!
Many thanks! 
lovewillkill
Wed Sep 01, 2004 12:14 pm
#147
Thunderheart wrote:
- Fixed a problem where some of the UI menus, like the cloning screen, would auto select a blank line.
TH - I had a blank line auto-selected when taking a shuttle.
C
LadyLeala
Wed Sep 01, 2004 12:23 pm
#148
TH
One comment on the /findfriend option now in game...
I really think there needs to be a way to somehow disable this feature, to make yourself NOT findable. I don't want to remove a bunch of people from my friends list... but I gotta say, sometimes I do NOT want to be found. Be it with my Jedi, or just plain playing my main and not wanting to be bothered.
Just make an option that allows us to Toggle this feature on/off, and I'll be happy.
As a note, to followup someone else's suggestion about a macro, here's something you can do to "sort of" get around this issue:
Make a macrocalled "LISTFRIENDS"with the following text:
/addfriend Friend1;
/addfriend Friend2;
/addfriend Friend3;
..
..
(etc until all of your friends are on the list)
/pause 5;
/friend;
/macro CLEARLIST
THEN, make a second macro called "CLEARLIST" with the following text:
/removefriend Friend1;
/removefriend Friend2;
/removefriend Friend3;
..
..
(etc to end)
Make sure the two macro have the same names listed in them.
Then, you simply hit the first macro to get a quick list of all your friends. When the macro is done, it will automatically CLEAR the list. Voila!
NOTE: You may need to adjust the /pause 5 that I included in the first macro. If you have a very long friends list, you will have to go higher with this number. Just experiment with it.
Message Edited by LadyLeala on 09-01-2004 03:53 AM
ReelaK
Wed Sep 01, 2004 12:28 pm
#149
Hey TH,
I noticed a strange bug today. Cities disappeared off of the Planetary maps. Also, the /find option would not locate structures in those cities once they disappeared.
Reela
I noticed a strange bug today. Cities disappeared off of the Planetary maps. Also, the /find option would not locate structures in those cities once they disappeared.
Reela
Gullefjun
Wed Sep 01, 2004 12:31 pm
#150
Why no chat fixes thunderhart!? We were promised that the private chat issue should get a solution this patch..
LadyLeala
Wed Sep 01, 2004 12:46 pm
#151
The names of objects and people and NPCs in the game are really weird now...
When they are up close to you, the name appears in BOLD text. When they are further away, it shows up in NORMAL text. It used to just be bold all the time.
I prefer the bold. The normal text is hard to read in that screen.
At first I thought it was kinda cool that you might be able to gauge how far away a person or thing is from you based on the boldness of their name... but unfortunately, there are only the two levels: Normal and Bold. So after about 10 meters, everything is small fond and it all just blends together just as badly as it used to. And if there is just one thing, it's hard to read.
Please change this back with next hotfix.
LadyLeala
Wed Sep 01, 2004 12:51 pm
#152
Calling from toolbar works for the following things (so far):
Vehicles (but NOT mounts)
Faction pets
It does NOT work for:
Creature pets
Droids
I know in the patch notes it specifically said "speeders". But at one point, I remember you said it could be used to call ANYTHING from your datapad. Why not just update that now, and make the default action on ALL pets to be "Call"? Doesn't seem like that would be horribly difficult. 
Yec
Wed Sep 01, 2004 12:58 pm
#153
LadyLeala wrote:
Calling from toolbar works for the following things (so far):
Vehicles (but NOT mounts)
Faction pets
It does NOT work for:
Creature pets
Droids
I know in the patch notes it specifically said "speeders". But at one point, I remember you said it could be used to call ANYTHING from your datapad. Why not just update that now, and make the default action on ALL pets to be "Call"? Doesn't seem like that would be horribly difficult.
Please enable/fix this.
HouseArcadius
Wed Sep 01, 2004 1:37 pm
#154
FIX THE DROPSHADOWS/FONTS TO WHAT THEY WERE PRE-PATCH 10!
And yes, that was me yelling, not just a caps-happy idiot. This needs to get hotfixed ASAP. You had NO business changing this, without even asking us or listening to those on TC who spoke up against it. You also had NO reason to stealth-patch this without a single bloody mention of this in the updates, other than to confuse players and dodge exactly the kind of responses you're getting now.
Yes, this is a very angry post. And posts like this will NOT go away until you change the font "update" to what it was before. I personally guarantee you that I will bump and create new threads about this until the game fades into oblivion. You had absolutely no right to inflict this painful eyesore on the player-base, just to save a bit of database use. This was the absolute worse call in how to improve the speed on the game. Next time ASK us if we'd rather go blind and develop headaches fine minutes into loading the game, or if we'd rather put up with a bit of lag.
This may seem like a trivial change to you, and you might think that players will eventually shut-up and adjust. I'm here to tell you, we will not.
And yes, that was me yelling, not just a caps-happy idiot. This needs to get hotfixed ASAP. You had NO business changing this, without even asking us or listening to those on TC who spoke up against it. You also had NO reason to stealth-patch this without a single bloody mention of this in the updates, other than to confuse players and dodge exactly the kind of responses you're getting now.
Yes, this is a very angry post. And posts like this will NOT go away until you change the font "update" to what it was before. I personally guarantee you that I will bump and create new threads about this until the game fades into oblivion. You had absolutely no right to inflict this painful eyesore on the player-base, just to save a bit of database use. This was the absolute worse call in how to improve the speed on the game. Next time ASK us if we'd rather go blind and develop headaches fine minutes into loading the game, or if we'd rather put up with a bit of lag.
This may seem like a trivial change to you, and you might think that players will eventually shut-up and adjust. I'm here to tell you, we will not.
raandi
Wed Sep 01, 2004 2:25 pm
#155
Drop-Shadow on player and object names has been removed. This makes it impossible to read this stuff against light backgrounds. Please put the drop-shadow back.
i saw this prob on TC also, why did you let this slip into live? come on, it's pretty hard to miss 
TranSabal
Wed Sep 01, 2004 2:48 pm
#156
I love the new bike call/store feature from the toolbar. The menu options on the bikes are also loading much more quickly. I haven't "warped" away from my bike since the patch, either.
Is it possible to get pets and droids to have this same feature?