Disappearing npc(s) and players.

[Rannie]

People who aren't even members can read this site it's not locked out just because you don't have an account. I got a coworker of mine addicted to this forum

[Catapult]

This was not some problem that just randomly happened later on. It was always the poor design of the game engine and a flaw built into the tools that create the game (crystal tools sucks).

Actually, Crystal Tools is awesome... if you're designing a single-player game where you can control the number of moving elements on screen and work your combat engine around known graphical loading constraints. Works like a charm in XIII.

It's selection as the engine for XIV where a real-time and highly responsive environment is desired - now THAT was the silly move.

This is why the new engine in 2.0 has been designed for purpose. But that's the kind of fix that takes 2 years to implement, the culmination of which is just around the corner.

[Riv]

As has already been said, this is a limitation of the current engine to only display 40 or so characters on screen at once. Yoshi-P himself already said this will not happen in 2.0. Welcome to like a year ago.

Obviously, this happens in markets all the time. I rarely notice it happening in towns. I've never seen this happen in dungeons. The only instance i've seen it happen in is Hyrstmill hamlet defense. Sometimes 2 of 3 of the back line archers will disappear when a large wave of mobs comes in, but they appear again shortly thereafter. And if ur close enough to cure, they will be visible anyway. It's not a problem. Maybe your computer just sucks.

[Riv]

And for you, buddy I don't have all these 50s, because I was pling. I've invested 21 months into this game when it was free. Don't remembering having these issues then. Hmm, don't think we had the content to compare with. The time was invested to come up with the content, so how about putting the time in making sure it works as well. Common sense

Oh, and the problem was always there. You just didn't notice it during F2P because there weren't enough players around, lol.

[Malix]

Are you attacking me because you're bored or just a jerk by nature? IJS

Noone is bashing it's just like asking for a solution to a problem that nearly all of thier resources are being used to fix. So easy to find the info to support that fact, i mean its on the front page for crying out loud.

[M4Fade]

That's not the only poorly written part, however I'm almost certain loading times will be better with the new engine.

This caught my eye. I run on an Crucial M4 SSD and 4.5Ghz i5-2500k and the loading times between screens are atrocious when they should be near instant or at least just much, much, faster. The loading times ARE going to get better, right? They have to, right?!

I assume they will be.. with that 2.0 refined engine and all.

[Tricksy]

This caught my eye. I run on an Crucial M4 SSD and 4.5Ghz i5-2500k and the loading times between screens are atrocious when they should be near instant or at least just much, much, faster. The loading times ARE going to get better, right? They have to, right?!

I assume they will be.. with that 2.0 refined engine and all.

I dont mean to scare you, but Yoshi has been relatively vague about this. Regarding the PS3 he clearly states that that will be an issue for players, they will have like 45-60 npcs and other players on the screen at a given time. Dont quote me on that. And for PC players it will be dependent on your hardware(which if we judge from the last 2 years, SE is quite poor at optimizing).

Ultimately, I am hoping for improvement. I dont have the greatest computer but I went out and bought a gtx470 when the game first came out, and when i first started playing I was very disappointed.

[M4Fade]

I dont mean to scare you, but Yoshi has been relatively vague about this. Regarding the PS3 he clearly states that that will be an issue for players, they will have like 45-60 npcs and other players on the screen at a given time. Dont quote me on that. And for PC players it will be dependent on your hardware(which if we judge from the last 2 years, SE is quite poor at optimizing).

Ultimately, I am hoping for improvement. I dont have the greatest computer but I went out and bought a gtx470 when the game first came out, and when i first started playing I was very disappointed.

Damn, you're scaring me. lol
My PC should rock this game, I guess we'll just have to wait and see if they optimize things... or not. Here's hoping!

[Alhanelem]

Being that I am paying a subscription, I would like more quality in the product that I buy. Like so many I want the game to have success in it's release/push for 2.0. I understand the devs are working more to this goal, but the problems on this current game still needs to be address. We have content and instance raids, but the game is lacking in quality. Here is my biggest grape. When I'm in town or doing hamlet defense; things just tends to disappear. Do you know how frustrating it is, when you can't target because there's nothing to target! So what if you give us content you can't play correctly. I'm asking for customer's satisfaction for a product that we invest our money and time.

The reason for this is simple: Too many NPCs/mobs/players in view. This limit is supposed to be greatly increased in 2.0.

As a paying customer, I too like to see quality in my products. But I am content to wait for that already planned quality to be implemented rather than post "I'm a customer, fix my game now!"

[Titans]

I'm speaking for my server, just after posting this thread all the problems that a mention is obvious so bad that Excalibur has more issues than most servers. I'm assuming this is because of the higher population our server had. And yeah I expect them to put out a quality product. I have to assume as well that most of you still live with your parents and they provide you with things without working for it. So it would be a waste of my time to explain to you the value of dollar. But go ahead defend them bash me for speaking up.