Development Cycle Archive
Thread: October 13, 2004 -- Hotfix Feedback
Curehead wrote:
SO FIX THE LAUNCHPAD shine dog you are wrong as usual....
Shinedog wrote:
But like I said fool, check the Technical Support forum.
What a kind and helpful way to redirect people to the proper place! Not. Maybe if you were less offensive, other people wouldn't argue with what you say and simply take your excellent advice. Being thicker-skinned than most people, I ignored the "fool" comments and simply followed your links to find what I needed. Thank you. But you might try to lighten your attitude a little. People are justifiably unhappy about not being able to log in and yet we're asked for feedback on a fixmany of uscan't even try out. And putting out a hotfix around the same time as pushing out a buggy LP was just begging for this sort of confusion on the part of the players. It's understandable.
I apologize for my part in derailing your thread, Tiggs.
Again: the launchpad issues and the hotfix are separate things, everyone.
Tiggs wrote:
Misc.
- Delivery and crafting mission NPC's will no longer dynamically spawn. There will now be a single NPC who handles all pick up and deliveries in each location.
I haven't had a chance to see for myself (been helping with Beta), but I suspect that this will go a long way to reducing the lag that may people (even those of us with well-maintained high-end computers) experience in the static cities.
A couple weeks ago, there was an early-morning rollback and for some reason, none of the NPCs spawned in Bestine. No trainers, no bystanders... and the choke I usually experience when entering the city was pleasantly absent.
And I always found it annoying to try and find which NPC was your contact amid a small crowd of them - especially since most of them were programmed to respond in the most rude fashion possible. 
I'll hop on and go give it a try. I expect it will be an improvement.
Shaan'ti Hokai (Kauri) 