Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-4842859-20131025024516/@comment-24108228-20131115181205

Is this a necro? I hope this isn't a necro. But I have played on testing grounds for a prolonged period of time recently, as I wanted to play on a 'private' server where I can do anything I like with no raiders or dragburn/seaters, and I came up with the following results.

Firstly, some bugs that need to be squashed.


 * This isn't really a bug, but needs fixing. When I spawned (on terraphix), I could barely see a thing. When you spawn, you should get a large bit of area uncovered around you, so you can see the majority of your island, or the entirety if it is rather small, like flax or something similar.


 * Players can be seen even if they are in unloaded chunks. When I joined I knew exactly where they were, and they had no idea where I was, beacause I was behind a hill I had not loaded yet, and they had been playing for a while.


 * I can see into 'hidden' caves, such as death water and mainland mithril. When approaching somewhere, I can zoom out and change my camera angle so it is horizontal, and see into the plataeus and mountains. Somtimes I do not even need to zoom out.


 * You need to generate more terrain when you move. To a new player, you are on the only island. Then a player comes out of the fog surrounding it and kills you with steel weapons and takes your stuff that you spent ages collecting and crafting. You didn't even know there was anything better than a battle club. This could be fixed with a tutorial for new players or some form of map. Not sure how you would do this without uncovering the secrect locations of magma and possibly lynx, if you consider that a hidden island.


 * LYNX ISLAND! NOOOOOO! (I mean er, lynx island had disappeared on the server I played on. The lynx where nowhere to be seen).


 * Some blocks will fall through the terrain when you place them. It only happened in the early game, and the trend was that the lighter blocks fell through and heaver blocks stayed put (hemp, rope and sand all fell through the terrain).

Now, there is one thing that stood out for me. The lag. When I play on my iPad, somthing strange often happens. I will never experience player lag, but when the server is getting old, the frame rate for blocks being affected by physics will drop dramatically, and I will experience boat lag. With this new streaming, I found this. No lag at all. The sailboat was far faster than the catamaran that I am used to (never built a catamaran, but I can imagine that being very fast). The physics were seamless. It was incredible. I would definatly perfer the game with streaming.

However, there is a glaring issue that means this would be unaddable. Does anyone remember the comments section around the halloween update? For those who don't, here is the comment that filled up the comments section. OMFG! Remove the ****ing fog! When the fog was removed, the following days comment section was filled with this. Finally! The stupid fog is gone! Clearly the community hates the fog. Now if we re-add this, what do you think the fan base of Survival 303 will say?