What's the word on chat bubbles?

^^this

there is no need for them, /say works well enough and you can even color code your chat channel if that's not enough.

On a small scale yes it is minute. Now put chat bubbles into a fleet full of characters; 175 people talking with chat bubbles. Do you not see a problem with that? Even WITH some sort of distance filter, the system still has to run that calculation and use clock cycles.

You're welcome! Have fun being passive-aggressive somewhere else, I guess! -bp

ummm, just a question, are you a qualified game programmer or design expert?

in one word... pointless

In several words, chat bubbles are the worst thing that could happen to this specific game. They were in beta and caused performance issues. The game already has more than enough things contributing to lag on the fleet, the last thing we need is another. Plus, if the chat bubbles were not optional I believe many people including myself would leave the game as it creates a childish cartoon like environment and breaks all immersion.

Irrelevant. You don't need to be a game designer or a programmer to know how things should perform. I.E. You or anyone else playing the game.

Edit:

People saying that "It's not needed." that's the exact same argument as me saying "It's needed." You provide no greater evidence other than "It caused lag." Okay, so make it stop causing lag.

so make it stop causing lag? thats your big solution? If it were so simple then we would have it by now, but it is not here is it?


Meanwhile thanks for confirming that you have no knowledge of the game engine or anything, to be fair neither do I other than we are using a heavily modified hero engine (I think its modified out of the alpha version I know that what this game was made with was not the finished product, point is one of its main defects at times is lag), but yet again I am not the one claiming that this is completely possible and should be done above all else because "you don't need to be a game designer or a programmer to know how things should perform".

2500 cc to unlock chat bubbles then 100cc per bubble

As much as I'd love to have toggle-able Chat Bubbles, it is never going to happen in this game. Not ever -- not in 10,000 years. So you need to accept that fact (as I reluctantly have) or you need to find yourself another MMO.

Please quote me where I said chat bubbles should be done asap and above all issues.

Also please tell me how it's my fault that the company chose an engine they couldn't program correctly to handle a CHAT FEATURE, let alone half of the features they wanted to actually put into the game.

Plenty of games do it already. PSO2 , Lineage II, Aion for just a few examples of this system working not only perfectly but fittingly for the atmosphere.



Okay.



Irrelevant. You don't need to be a game designer or a programmer to know how things should perform. I.E. You or anyone else playing the game.

Edit:

People saying that "It's not needed." that's the exact same argument as me saying "It's needed." You provide no greater evidence other than "It caused lag." Okay, so make it stop causing lag.
"Well I don't like it, looks stupid"
Well I like it, I CAN TELL WHOSE talking and makes more sense visually, and it doesn't look stupid.

At no point in time did I say your opinions are invalid, but it seems you are all jumping down my throat trying to say mine are with no other validation other than mob mentality. Get a hold of yourselves.



Sorry, this game is already Childish and cartoon like. Chat bubbles wouldn't do much to change that.