Some future improvements

[Robin]

Hiyo all,

Since I've stopped playing Graal and come back, There were some things that, well, more than bothered me. I lament these things.

First off is the disappearance of the changelog that used to be included with the client, showing all new changes in the scripting language, bug fixes et al. This had all but vanished when the move to v4 (or is it, v5 now?) was complete, but it was a useful reference tool as well as being able to let people know what had been fixed.

The other issue I found was the Scripted RC. Now I can see a lot of work has been put into this, but I do not believe that the Graal client has matured enough to dignify this script to be used, instead of a native RemoteControl client. For one thing, whenever I have used this script, it appears to lose focus by itself. I could be typing a sentence or editing a script and suddenly the keyboard be unresponsive.

I believe that if this Scripted RC is here to stay, it should be an option on the start menu (Which is also something I lament, but do not care enough about to mention seperately), to open the RC, and ONLY the RC. So that you never actually log onto a server in player mode, and save resources, time, etc.

Operating system integration (I'm talking OS X in particular) does not match what the client needs to do and the fact is that the game, gui and options are all very laggy on my Intel Mac (Due to the fact that the binary is not yet Universal! Come on Stefan, you've had two years!)

I know development machines tend to be expensive and if Stefan owns an intel mac the he cannot be expected to compile Graal on his personal computer, but I know that there are some services out there that can be quite cheap which offer cluster compiling farms on any and every platform including Intel OS X.

The global chat system just seems tacked on, like Graal had been turned into a giant IRC server. Not that anyone uses it.

Anyway these are my points, thanks for reading :P