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Rise Of The Archons. Suggestion (For Scorpion)

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Daniel1409

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I know this is suppose to be for arcadia only but cant find anywhere to post Archons related things so posting it here.

I have played your servers for years and find myself coming back to play Archons every few months, but always run into the personal issue of the game being limited to 1024x768 Resolution.
Alongside this years ago you changed the movement style to a smooth movement type compared to the "normal" movement style that Arcadia and P69 has.

I love Archons and really love the concepts you have with the 8 different classes, the skill tree alongside the skillpoint system having to be obtained from Achievements as well as lvling.
They are very unique systems that no other Mir servers do and I have suggested to many many people to come and play Archons because of it, but the issue always comes down to many people not enjoying the forced Resolution and/or the smooth movement.

I'm asking if you could potentially add the option in the settings for players to continue to use the smooth movement style or to return to the "normal" movement style.
The resolution people would ideally look to have is 1920x1080 and if possible a few smaller ones like 1366x768, 1600x900.

If possible to add the settings to use bigger resolution scaling, it can be for Archons only if needed as I know I made a post years back asking for the option on Arcadia and many were against the idea and even you commented on it asking players about their opinions on the situation but eventually it went nowhere.

I personally know a lot of people who would play Archons but are really put off by the resolution and smooth movement so don't / can't play it.
I play a lot of mir servers and run a fairly big guild called Nemesis on other servers I upload a fair few videos mir related to my YT channel its not the biggest but a lot of people watch it, so gets a lot of eyes looking at it in the mir community considering how small we really are.
These 2 small but game changing changes could potentially bring a lot of new / returning eyes back to it.
I will link my channel if you wish to check it out. https://www.youtube.com/@Shurikan12

I do love Archons and want more to experience the server.

Much love, I hope you read this.
Daniel / Shurikan
 
It's a good idea but calling it a 'small change' is massively diminishing the work needed to make a change like that
 
Well id imagine the smooth move would be something small to add seeing as he previously had the game running in this mode and still does on arcadia so a tick box option in the settings section would be a small and simple change. looking at it from a programming / coding point of view.

The resolution thing could be a bigger project depending on how his UI is created but again looking at how other mir files are done the only "problem" would be the chat box depending on how he has coded it, but all other mir servers the ui doesnt need to fill the whole bottom of the screen it can just fill the original resolution of 1024 and then have empty space on each side.
And target range, on all mir files its defaulted to 1024 range so if u try and target / cast spells outside of this range it doesnt work, but i dont know how andy has coded these files as nobody has ever had them apart from him.
 
Daniel1409 said:
Well id imagine the smooth move would be something small to add seeing as he previously had the game running in this mode and still does on arcadia so a tick box option in the settings section would be a small and simple change. looking at it from a programming / coding point of view.

The resolution thing could be a bigger project depending on how his UI is created but again looking at how other mir files are done the only "problem" would be the chat box depending on how he has coded it, but all other mir servers the ui doesnt need to fill the whole bottom of the screen it can just fill the original resolution of 1024 and then have empty space on each side.
And target range, on all mir files its defaulted to 1024 range so if u try and target / cast spells outside of this range it doesnt work, but i dont know how andy has coded these files as nobody has ever had them apart from him.
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The technical implementation is the easy part. Ensuring it doesn't upset balance is the hard part. Different types of movement and different screen resolutions introduce a very wide range of imbalances. Having everyone on the same settings is the easy way, which scorp has chosen. If everyone has various different settings then everything in the game needs tested again for every combination, multiplies the testing work massively to catch and avoid potential bugs that you know would be immediately exploited if this community gets half a chance
 
There has been multiple servers where smooth move and normal movement is both enabled and players can decided what movement style they want. 1 or the other doesn't give a player any advantages its pure preference.
Alongside servers having multiple different resolutions and again the advantage you gain is the see a player on your visual screen from further out compared to others, but if you have eyes can just see them on the minimap before they even come on your screen which most competent pvp players do anyway.

Beside the fact, archons has little to no players and none that pvp so what "advantage" would a larger resolution give people.
 
When we previously reverted the movement style on Archons there was player resistance so it was put back.. I guess it would depend on the current players

A lot of the interface is not dynamic and it would need updating to accept any resolution changes like that. There's a lot of game features that are not prepared to delivery a wider view. It is really months of work to flesh everything out.. and then due to the old graphics rendering, FPS takes a big hit for many players
 
Resolution changes I can understand would be a lot of work potentially.

Is there a possibility of adding the option to choose to play with either smooth move or normal movement to people who like either or can pick what they prefer.
Would please many players.
 
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