Politician Archive

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Scoooter wrote:

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MTolwyn wrote:

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Pappi wrote:

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ACiDAnArChY wrote:

in my mind this is no where near impossible. if they created the game they can also add this mod to it. why not give the mayor the ability to use something like the zoning screen, lay down some roads and whatever else, then hit save and have that turn into a request that is sent to the devs for approval. if approved have the changes be implimented upon the next server restart

sounds a little more reasonable now eh? trust me, you pay someone enough money they will accomplish anything! you'd think us being the customers and consumers that give them a a pay check they'd give us our requests or at least entertain them

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I'll try this one last time... nothing personal, but I've explained this quite a few times.

the data for terrain is stored client side, so your client can generate the base terrain without getting info from the server. the reason houses and such lag when loading is because your client has to receive the info from the server for each house.

now imagine flattened terrain. your client has to adjust the height on every square of land. this will likely lag you to hell and back, especially if you travel thru heavily changed terrain and all the info has to be reloaded dynamically every time you enter the area. as far as I understand, it's the same with ground graphics except that instead of a simple numerical adjustment, changing ground graphics involves loading something completely different.

of course nothing is impossible. however, do you guys want the devs to spend a lot of time on this (which right now isn't even an option), or lots more improvements for the profession that takes a fraction of the time? better yet, do you want me to bug the devs about something they said won't happen, or bug them about our other issues that they might be able to work on?

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i think there a lil detail you forget

when camps, tents or certain buildings spawn in the wilderness the ground arround them get s automatically flattened
so i see no real technical problem with saying that certain buildings in a city, like a city hall, catina, cloning..... can flatten the ground arround them ?

i agree to make permanent changes to the landscape might be a problem but my suggestions would be
- as said above, certain buildings have the option to flatten the ground arround them
- once a months, or the 3week voting period, they flatten the cities and give us a landscape update for the client, so this way we couldn t just have a flat area but also another ground texture looking more like streets

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Spawns, and camps have a finite lfietime and encompass a small area.

It's time to get off pappi.

There are reasonalbe limits to software development where impossible = "impractical based on the cost" Where cost can be from everything to database constraints, network constraints, graphics constraints, client or server side lag whether it be graphics or cpu related.

That is the case with this.

Stop bugging Pappi about it and let her concetrate on what can be fixed

And quit criticizing her for not wanting to take forward an issue that has been beaten like a dead horse and has been adiquately explained.

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