I hear ya brother! Preach it! Maybe I'll make my HDTV my monitorI know things are hectic right now but I was wondering if y'all could toss a larger game play window for CC and a "large print" version to chat and people talking could be tossed on the heap that is the "to do" list. The eyeballs of some of the non-younger folks who play are not what they once were
Been there done that....... 42" of joy...... but the screen is still TOO TINY in the CC. So I made the switch.... and I'll never go back.I hear ya brother! Preach it! Maybe I'll make my HDTV my monitor
To all of you CC users - HUSH until you know what you are talking about.
Lest you and others accuse me of haxxoring, I'll just point out that someone did, I hear, make a larger play window. That's all the request is, a larger window without any need for enlarging toons or backpacks or anything else.
That's a lot of baloney. Perhaps it was valid once upon a time when 150-200 ms pings were common, but in any properly designed game, movement will be based on a few bytes of data telling the client what animation to move to what spot along with appropriate animations. All the real work is done client-side.
What ever you say, Oh Wise One. You take it up with the Developers then, sine they are the ones that said it took too much computer resources and bandwidth. This isn't my argument and it isn't yours either, because you do not have the expertise in what either client can do. That is what the developers do, and they are the ones that said it wasn't happening.
You can do us the courtesy of citing where a Dev said such a thing, notwithstanding what I said is correct. You can mock me all you'd like, but it's an absurd notion that the CC's design so many years ago was so inefficient when bandwidth was limited, yet today the EC's emphasis is on efficiency when bandwidth is cheap. And as far as "expertise," there have been times when the current team doesn't even know its own game.
Do your own research, I told you where to find it the past threads on the topic.
Unfortunately I do not think a larger gameplay window would help very much. The graphics, as you know, were made for a lower resolution, so even if you expanded the gameplay window, you're still going to struggle with the tiny graphics - just on a larger screen. Hypothetically you could "zoom in", but then the graphics would be, as one poster put it, a "hideously ugly pixelated mess". This effect is observable on the EC where if you zoom in, the graphics look particularly bad. Hopefully this will be resolved with the higher resolution art. Unless CC gets higher resolution art (and I wouldn't hold my breath on that), it shall remain as it is. Personally I like the small screen, but I can understand why many would not.I know things are hectic right now but I was wondering if y'all could toss a larger game play window for CC and a "large print" version to chat and people talking could be tossed on the heap that is the "to do" list. The eyeballs of some of the non-younger folks who play are not what they once were
Wow, what an expected non-answer answer. It's not like I'm demanding peer review. The least you can do is back up your claims.
clue... less
I agree... this really doesn't affect me one way or the other. I was just pointing out what developers have already said, not my opinion. Some people just have trouble accepting they are sometimes wrong.Gentlemen! Gentlemen! Let us agree to disagree!
Gee, another expected non-answer answer from you. When you can't refute, you go stick your head in the sand again.
Doesn't? You still can't understand that you can have your way of the Devs , at the cost of EA pulling the plug.
Claudia, thanks for the link, but:
Even without the resulting blockiness, that's still not what I've described: it's to enlarge the game play window without enlarging the internal graphics, like in the EC.
Agreed
Stop trying to put words into my posts. I did not say the EC was more "efficient," and these are the posts that I was referring to anyway. Any historian worthy of the name could research the posts and find those himself.
I know and understand that. I'm not attacking anyone, just trying to explain what was said before by the developers.
You wrote previously: "the bandwidth and amount of data required to push 2D graphics..." In other words, efficiency. Do you deny that, or were you talking about something else?
Yes, I know what he's saying, but I'm also bringing up resizing insofar as the game play window, which others and I have wished for since larger LCDs became the norm.
Did you not read the link? A larger play window is EXACTLY what Kyronix's post addressed.
Yes, I did read the link, and Kyronix doesn't get it. Let me put it this way: even if we're talking about filler like at the castle, the map files already contain the data that can be drawn. So why that excuse of filler?
This worked like a charm. tyVm!! Didn't mean to stir up a hornets nest though.. sorry
Wisdom triumphs again.This worked like a charm. tyVm!! Didn't mean to stir up a hornets nest though.. sorry
lol.. I am slowly finding that out. Never had any problems with my eyes until the last year.. hmmm, I reckon I am getting older huh? lolbut I suspect I'd still be struggling with that even with a larger play window. Bad eyesight is a pain in the... well, you know.
You're running about 78 ppi, pretty large. The drawback for pixel-precise types like me is that if you look closely, individual pixels here and there will be rendered larger, looking "blocky" or distorted as if the game made an error in drawing. There's always a tradeoff, but maybe in this case the advantage is your lesser eyesight.lol.. I am slowly finding that out. Never had any problems with my eyes until the last year.. hmmm, I reckon I am getting older huh? lol
You should give Petra's solution a try. I have a 20" widescreen monitor and changed the resolution from 1600x900 to 1360x768 and I can see every word on screen without squinting or leaning up. It does shrink the black area a decent amount so if you pull a lot of spells and stick them around it will be a pain in the same place... I guess that is what life is about, picking and choosing which pain in that area you can live with
Yeah, there is some slight trade off. The most notable thing is when I mouse over something and the tag comes up the open area of it has small little white dots in it, but that is aight by me
Educated guesswork here - look at the screen shots that are posted by Devs, when they do. What client are they in? My guess is most of the devs play in CC
Educated guesswork here - look at the screen shots that are posted by Devs, when they do. What client are they in? My guess is most of the devs play in CC
