It's time (Option to Hide other players Glamour)

[Dan4077]

As they've never actually posted how the system works I'm having trouble believing that you KNOW so. I can base my theories on the way that I know OTHER games work though. So likely your system gets some very small streams of data to tell it what to show: flags for where the character is and what they're doing that update pretty constantly and then data for what to show them wearing which really only need to be sent occasionally. The AMOUNT of data being sent for appearances would never really change, no matter the system. It would either be sending flags for whatever glamour they have or if the client had the flags for "default" it would use whatever default there was set OR if there was a glamour stripping option it would just use the actual gear data. The blacklist would also likely be client side as there would be no need for the server to care, instead of reading the glamour data it would simply use the appearance data for the gear they were actually wearing, which is sent anyway. Not a particularly large change in back and forth and not particularly stressful on the system since it'd be loading the same amount of appearance data. It's not like it's loading the glamour, then unloading, then loading the base gear.



I've already tackled the "immersion" arguments on both sides and would rather not go into this again.

I am not reading threw over a 1000 posts to find your argument so saying this gets you no where at all. You say it or don't, just because you made some argument to another doesn't make it automatically valid because you don't want to repeat yourself, that is ridiculous.

Yes and all those readings of "flags" as you like to put it and changes it takes PROCESSING POWER. Now depending on how they do it, and how it works it can either be less stressful or more depending on added features such as having to read threw individual blacklisted glamours like some were asking for. I said I KNOW because this is an un-debatable fact on how computers work and a ps4 is just a computer with a different operating system. Anything the server does whether its loading characters trees glamour w.e takes processing power. If you add on to those processes it will either effect it in some way better or not. I did not specify ANY kind of glam block option I just said that for certain ones people were asking for it would take a lot for lower systems if you could go around blocking individual peoples glamours and parts. Plus all of this depends on how the glam option works if it replaces the code for the amour you are wearing it will read it as the glamour anyway. Like you literally just claimed idk how the system works don't take a full loop and start talking like you know how the system works. Their glamour system could work in multiple ways.