Geo filters

[Elphy]

I thought in patch notes they said they addressed this but one has been successful at shutting geo spell graphics off yet.

We have lost 6 ppl out of our alliance as soon as a geo came in due to nausea and if you don't invite them they skill in the middle so it doesn't make a diff ppl still leave.

Sorry if this has been addressed already, if it has I missed it

[Kaisha]

Config -> Effects -> Make sure "All effects during Battle" is set to off. Turn on Party-> You/Party/Non-Party PC.

Not bothered checking which one of those specifically disables it, but one of them does. Doesn't work on the luopan pets btw, just the Indi- buff that follows the Geomancer. Filters take effect once you exit the filter menu.

[Elexia]

Ok I have to seriously ask:

What the hell is wrong with people that these fairly low end particle effects are causing people to be sick? I swear a few are just pissy it's a new job because we had people complain about "annoying constant JA usage" when PUP came out >.>.

I see you're on Asura too, so I'm definitely going with the people just hating lol.

[Siviard]

If our Auras and Luopans make you so "sick", eat a Drammamine before playing.

For your Luopan sickness needs, it's Drammamine!

[Zirael]

If our Auras and Luopans make you so "sick", eat a Drammamine before playing.

For your Luopan sickness needs, it's Drammamine!

You seem to need it badly, so here's some of "Educating Rita" just for you:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Photosensitive_epilepsy

The first case of epileptiform seizures related to a video game was reported in 1981.[6] Since then, "many cases of seizures triggered by VGs were reported, not only in photosensitive, but also in nonphotosensitive children and adolescents with epilepsy.....Specific preventive measures concerning the physical characteristics of images included in commercially available VGs (flash rate, choice of colors, patterns, and contrast) can lead in the future to a clear decrease of this problem."[6] Risks can be reduced through measures such as keeping a safe distance away from the screen (at least 2 meters).[6]
While computer displays in general present very little risk of producing seizures in PSE patients (much less risk than that presented by television sets), video games with rapidly changing images or highly regular patterns can produce seizures, and video games have increased in importance as triggers as they have become more common. Some people with no prior history of PSE may first experience a seizure while playing a video game. Often the sensitivity is very specific, e.g., it may be a specific scene in a specific game that causes seizures, and not any other scenes. Despite this, there are questions on the dangers of this, and calls for testing all video games for causing PSE.[7] Laws requiring PSE warnings be displayed on packages and/or stores have been proposed [8] and legal firms are keeping an eye on developments.

and so on...
https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=video+game+epilepsy

[Siviard]

You seem to need it badly, so here's some of "Educating Rita" just for you:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Photosensitive_epilepsy

and so on...
https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=video+game+epilepsy

FAIL!

I suffer from motion sickness, not seizures. And even though I have motion sickness issues IRL, the Geomancer Auras and Luopans DO NOT AFFECT ME. Therefore, your argument is invalid. Nice try, though.

[Demon6324236]

DO NOT AFFECT ME.

Thats you, people are different from one another.

[Siviard]

Thats you, people are different from one another.

Very true. However, it was in response to the post above mine stating that I seem to have some sort of problem with epileptic seisures, which is not the case.

[Merton9999]

Yeah they've lumped the auras under the other Config | Effects filters. If you don't want to see your own indi-aura, turn on You>You. To hide others' auras, use Party>Party, Non-Party>Non-Party.

I hope they come up with something more elegant for this, like a simpler effect. I don't like missing out on my other spell animation to hide the aura. I'm not bothered by the aura itself. What I don't like is the recreation of it whenever I swap gear. The game is redoing the whole swirl and snap animation as the aura disappears and reappears. Turning the filters on prevents this. I'd be happy if they just nixed that altogether.

[Alhanelem]

6 people out of an alliance to nausea? I don't believe that. I'm pretty sure the number of people affected by motion sickness is less than 1 in 3. Are you fabricating this just to get them to do something? I'm sure there are a few people out there who are genuinely affected by this, but I don't see 6 in the same alliance unless you specifically sought out people with motion sickness. If it was that common, they would have caught it in internal testing because odds would be someone on the dev team would have been getting sick from it.

OTOH.... if this really happened, I'll personally fly out to all their houses and buy them all a case of motion sickness pills.

I've been in multiple alliances on GEO and not 1 person complained. I'm sure if I was making someone feel sick they would say something. The only complaint i've ever had is someone complained that it was making their framerate drop when I was skilling up.

Also... due to a technical limitation currently only Indi- spell effects can be turned off. they were unclear as to whether they could do the same for luopan because they are designed differently apparently.