Hero Engine: why?

Is that why Warhammer Online never got any faster loading times?
Major changes to the engine wont happen without major changes in the games code.
But they could have let the game read faster than 80mb/sec on a SSD raid that can handle 1gb/sec sequential.

And everytime I've asked BW/EA for a reason I got some random copy/paste reply from their support asking me to send in various files. I guess I must be the only one having slow loading times...

Im sure web application developement is much different from game development my friend. This coming from web developer of 14 years. I am willing to bet this ability lag issue is embedded deep into the core of the net code of hero engine and I doubt they will be able to truly fix it unless they have the abililty to rewrite the core of the engine.

Well since my thread was closed and linked to this one by the forum gestapo... buried god knows where on the forums. Here's my addition to the Hero Engine:

I've waited years for THIS? | Today , 09:18 PM

I can't believe I've waited years for this game, since it was a rumor that bioware was making an MMO, and everyone was guessing it was a Star Wars MMO.

This is a hollow shell of an MMO. It's NOT massive. It's overly instanced. Why? Here's your answer:

http://www.heroengine.com/2011/11/he...eets-starwars/

"I NEED THIS"

That's why... they were too inexperienced to make their own engine, and EA was too cheap to use an established engine, so they went with this garbage we're using now. The person who made that decision is now banished to facebook games.

http://www.darthhater.com/articles/s...leaves-bioware

I'll still be subbing this game to play through the stories... but as an MMO I'm seriously doubting the future. Every single person I've played with, over 10 guys, are gone already, didn't even sub the first month. Almost every step Bioware has taken since I started in beta midway through last year has been a step backwards. Dual or multi spec? Nope. Easy way to respec? Nope. Dungeon finder or ANY KIND OF ALTERNATIVE? Nope. Being able to queue for specific warzones? Nope. Fair and balanced pvp reward system? Nope. Moddable UI? Nope. I'm sure I've forgotten more problems than other games have in total. Has anyone from this dev team played an MMO that hasn't come out 10+ years ago?

I honestly don't know what can be done. I feel the dev responses are at an all time low in the passed 2 weeks, there are 110+ page threads in the pvp forums asking valid questions with no dev response from before this patch, nevermind this disaster of 1.1.

Cue the fanboi rage.

mmm... yes.. come post here on the 51st page of a post nobody will ever read through..

Just listening to what the forum Gestapo agent told me to do

Exactly.

Instead of 5 years to bring to market SWTOR would have taken 10 years.

I did actually did spend the last 45 mins or so reading most (not all, some were just too much garbage to stomach) and while I quit doing software development professionally years ago, I can provide this info. (this is on my system, and your mileage may vary)

a) SWTOR is multi-threaded
b) SWTOR uses (at least) 4 cores

SWTOR's version of the HeroEngine uses all 4 cores in my Q9450, and creates multiple threads (the renderer itself may only be single threaded, however, I don't know)

http://img403.imageshack.us/img403/5857/resmonswtor.jpg

QFT.

I'm so tired of armchair programmers.

Me... fifteen years of web development, twelve years of graphic design, and presently training in 3D modelling/game art. I'm with you on this completely.

Ummm...

Not to put too fine a point on it, but...

That's what an engine is for. You license the core of it, and you modify it to fit your needs. Licensing an engine would be pretty pointless if you couldn't modify it to your own purposes.

That's the whole idea behind licensed engines.

It's not only an engine.
First. Textures are made, it seems, by a non skill artist. Event at highest possible AA+filtering I can still see artifacts at texture edges at the distance. If I come closer artifacts disappear, but U know they are still there.
The second point is that this engine uses a lot (I mean A LOT) of objects, and all of them are texturized. Compare to something like wow/aoc/etc. you can see, that object in those games are simpler, and their shapes are "carved" with texture tricks (for example: the column is just a cylinder, but its texture makes it look like 3d column). That is why our GPU/CPU is so frustrated with the amount of data they need to process.
And the third point is about lights and textures. Why, JUST WHY did BW need to make textures with mirroring? For more beauty or more lags? With such heavily lighted areas with lots of different light sources and with mirroring textures you do nothing but a performance decrease.

P.S.
not everyone has latest intell/amd processor, latest nvidia/ati card. Most of our (community, players - you name it) hardware is about a year (1 year) old, and if you, BW, do your game only for hi ends - you suck. That's the truth.