Politician Archive

My ships may be small, but I got a ton of them!

as far as data base due to the structures , being that on the server side the structure is only going to be 1 maybe 2 bytes to declare which structure it is then we only have 4 directions to place the structure so the server will only have to have 1 more byte to handle the direction pointer so a max of 3 bytes for any individual structure the issue would come in for the client side for it has to process every structure determine the direction from the pointer then draw it , if anything thier concern would be more rooted to that direction I would say and yes it is still a viable problem for a minimum requirement machine probably still has trouble in towns drawing all the clutter

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Thunderheart Wrote:

I know some of you are still anxious for the Planetary Caps to go up so let me share a little bit with you about the ongoing discussions. Player Cities are a fantastic new feature and everyone wants their own city, but lets consider the situation a little bit. Playing a Sith’s advocate, lets say we lifted the planetary caps tomorrow and anyone could run out and build a player city. A maximum player city radius is 1000 meters. In time, players would build cities wherever and however they could and urban sprawl would litter the galaxy. All the planets would have city after city, every 1000 meters and each planet would lose its character. Naboo would cease to be Naboo with no more pastures and greenspace. Tatooine would no longer be an empty desert where C-3PO and R2-D2 could wander for days without seeing anyone and the examples of how urban sprawl would ruin the feel and aesthetics of the galaxy go on and on.

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Hmmmm now this is just nonsence.. if the problem was that the littering of possible playercities around places like naboo and Tatooine is just nonsence.. The problem would allready be if the since evryone can place alot of houses with their char. around the above mentioned places and I hardly belive that PC will do anything to do that worse, if something if would concentrate the buildings scattered around the countryside in smaller citys/villages.. I liked the "we have no idea about how the servers will hold up after we launch something" kind of statement..

If something will not happen in near future with the caps I will probably cancel my two accounts and look for a new game to play.

Honestly I don't see blankets of cities being a problem considering no server makes it over medium these days . . . I just don't think the people are there to do it.

~~Shabhaii, Mayor of Tombra, Naboo
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