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Yes Glad, you're right, no one is going to agree on which HD is the best, and everyone is going to complain regardless.
With clientside HD as is on Classic now, people are going to complain about missed hits all day until the end of time.
With serverside HD, I'm going to hear about the fabled EUROPEAN REACH that allows anyone in the UK to hit from 20 TILES AWAY(one third the size of a full level). Interestingly enough, the people that use that term are the same people that pride clientside HD for allowing them to never get hit by anything, especially projectiles.
Why serverside HD for events?
The events were built in and for the serverside HD world. CTF runs on the fact that people are hit a lot easier in serverside HD. With clientside HD, you have to spend a lot more time predicting where your opponent is going to be on their screen in relation to you or it's going to be difficult to land a hit. That's all nice for spars and PKing, but it cripples events like CTF, KoM, or all the rest of events built for the serverside.
The change to all the event dynamics caused so many complaints to GC that Night gave the go ahead to switch all gc levels back to serverside movement. Some people might enjoy slipping through a 3 man defense on a flag and returning the flag with extreme ease, but that isn't how the event is structured, and thats why CTF and events in general on classic are so dominant, save for sparring. I understand that the server is in Europe, but a 50-100ms difference in lag causing a 5-10-*20* tile hit? Give me a break, if anyone had any sort of problems with that, it would have been Night, the person who played on a 56K modem in the middle of rural Georgia on an 8 year old machine while the servers were back in Europe, before anything got moved. However, he had absolutely no problems with reach hits or playing events, he thrived in CTF. The one US player who would have had the most justification crying "reach hit", called the move back to serverside HD.
What does that tell you?
I'm a US player and I've never had this problem, not even remotely, I think its an excuse for people who lose. Please, show me a video of someone hitting you from 20 tiles away, or even 5, so they can be banned.
Don't get me wrong, I knew exactly where Thor was coming from with clientside HD. Thor is well on his way to be on par or even past Tyhm as far as Development Admining goes. Everyone cried about serverside HD not being classic, ruining sparring/PKing on classic and whatnot. He gave the players essentially what they wanted, a replica of default HD(that is as close to default as you're going to get, default isnt coming back. It would break the server to where everything would have to be remade AGAIN, and you can kiss any chance of NEW content goodbye), which is what you're SUPPOSED to do as the Dev Admin. However, it just happened to have a negative impact since events were loosely based on how serverside HD functioned. I personally wouldn't have done it because most of the people whining to bring default HD back, already have long since moved to a different server or quit the entire game, and no matter what they tell you, they aren't going to come back to Classic. Thor tried giving you guys what everyone WANTED, and you guys even voted FOR it, and then when it happened, you turn the other cheek and cry about events being ruined, because you never thought about that aspect, did you?
I hear both sides to the HD war, I'll try to reach some sort of middle, making it toggleable, recoil and all, even though its silly to have to constantly transition between two different HDs. You guys need to accept the fact though, that there is going to be no compromise on which HD is better. there will be opponents to both, and noone is going to end up happy. We have to appease the majority here, and it doesnt help that the majority flip flops their opinion. However, I'm not going to spend much more time on the damn HD, its more reworking on existing stuff, which takes time away from NEW content, which everyone wants more of. Specifically, if I spend my time on the HD mess, that is time I'm not spending on cards. All the time Thor spends retooling HD and whatnot, thats time he and his dev team aren't spending on new content. Do us all a favor, and reach a middle ground on HD so we don't have to spend our resources trying to do it for you. |