What improvements would you like to see in the environment?

[Shougun]

Love your ideas
It's not realistic in an MMO though, since there's so many PCs with potentially unique animations, glamours etc going on. With UE5 though, nr of polygons would be irrelevant, but not sure how that translate to characters. But in general with MMOs, you need to tone down everything to a minimum so more ppl can play it with lower-end Systems. 1.0 was severely unplayable for me. I think my graphics card broke because of 1.0. I tried to use max settings to take screenshots during last days, but i got like 1 frame/min or such.
It would be so awesome to see these things though.
It's a bit funny though, how we marvel more at game geometry than what we see IRL, esp in VR it's like seeing everything for the first time, again.

Pretty sure Mor Dhona ray tracing can become the new crisis lol, but some of the ideas I think might be fine so long as it came with frame supporting features. Like one thing that can be done is high detail animations gaining "self, party, all" just like the spell effects. I have spell effects outside of party off just for a better visual experience, I've a 3090 so.. that's not an issue.. I just think it looks bad when I can see everyone doing their thing lol.

I imagine there are also some cheap shortcuts, like if we imagine 1,000 players making the plants bounce around via physics that sounds like an awfully stressful thing for the pc.. yet WoW and GW2 have this feature (for self at least). So I imagine there are ways to get around certain problems.

Obviously something like ray tracying a hunt train would just be.. @_@... "hey guys look at my new space heater" while the sound of your fans approach jet engines lol. There would have to be some bias options, or some would really not be realistic and just for enthusiasts.

I've not tried VR yet but I'm excited to :3. Also it's funny indeed, I know looking at those photogrammetry graphics in some games and going woooooowww.. but .. it's based on real life and I don't go wow for that hahaha XD (usually, I mean there are some beautiful places in nature of course, but a standard photogrammetry forest vs a standard real life forest and most people are probably going to drool at the video game ).