Originally posted by Loampounder;71789 I have tested the broker in beta and found out that it will not allow you to sell something for more than the money you currently have. You could sell that item for 99 cp, but not 1sp1cp. I don't know if it's intended or a bug, but I have bugged it.

Originally posted by peppy13;71907 Things are hard to keep track of right now? A disorganized launch isn't a good thing .

A rough estimate looks to be about 1.5 million right now.

When I had to do this, I just cheated and used FreeImage with my own managed wrapper and directly painted the image to the control. That probably makes me evil, but man was it fast and easy.

I think you all need to know that Vodoun is now directly responsible for delaying Beta 3 by at least half an hour.



Okay, kidding. Please don't hurt Vodoun...or the guy who made that page.

That right there is really the heart of the matter. When making an MMO (or really any multiplayer game, it's just magnified greatly in an MMO), everything has to be able to scale up to large numbers.

If you make a high-polygon model with really complex animations and it looks really amazing, that's fine. But what if you put 10 of them on the screen and suddenly nobody can actually run the game? In a single player game, where you have tighter control over the constraints, you can just say, "Well, that's alright, we'll just make sure there are never 10 of those on the screen at once."

With an MMO, all bets are off. That's not to say that you can't still have amazing graphics, just that you have to do a lot more work on things like scaling down level of detail in the appropriate situations so that the whole system doesn't grind to a halt when you've got 30 characters dancing on your screen.

Haha, of course.

It dawns on me that a better argument might have been, "We were simply moving at the speed of awesome, which isn't captured well in still photography."

And by "better" I meant "lamer."