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Map/Area loading

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I have played other online games that have almost 0% loading of maps/areas in the entire game. Right now, every time you go from one area to another, there is at least 1 loading zone. Would it be possible to just load all the maps and have them be 100% seamless transition between them? Just one example would be Silk Road Online, or World Of Warcraft. The single player in Halo 2 has a very similar system.
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For people with dial-up this would take forever.
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i do not believe it would take that long due o the fact that most of the loading is done on the client side, plus, last that i checked, things usually dont cater to the dial up community. please correct me if i am wrong.
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Dr Wahl wrote:i do not believe it would take that long due o the fact that most of the loading is done on the client side, plus, last that i checked, things usually dont cater to the dial up community. please correct me if i am wrong.
There are infact dialup gamers.
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Since all of the maps images are already on your computer I don't think it should matter what your connection is, except for the install. I think this is more a limitation of the Aethna server. Hopefully we can do this on the new server though. (disclaimer: I am not a programmer and this does not constitute a promise of any features in the new server software. I tried to compile TMW and its dependencies on my own and it almost killed me.)
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Post by Platyna »

Indeed, all maps are stored by client side, server just sends message to the client what map to load and walkable area lists.

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so maybe there could be an option somewhere that alows the user to specify how much/many maps/areas to load. The more that are loaded, the less cut between the maps. is this possible/viable from a programming standpoint?
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Post by Bjørn »

It's perfectly possible to keep a map in memory instead of throwing it away, and reusing it when a player comes back to it. It would take around 1-2 MB of memory for each map plus the extra memory needed for keeping any temporarily unused tilesets around.

It's just a matter of somebody getting around to programming this.
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