Tip for iPhone servers:

[ffcmike]

Originally Posted by MattKan

go away

skillmaster19 raises a legitimate point, obviously the main reason it would seem so appealing is down to the sheer huge playercount not any other server even comes close to, but you do have to consider whether this truly would be enough to keep PC players entertained or if they'd feel that at best they'd only be doing the exact same things they're doing on PC servers anyway, or perhaps whether they would even like mingling with a community that has a much lower average age where you hear from people claiming to have been jailed for calling Xor a jerk on facebook or something.

What I was hinting at before however was that any decision Stefan makes regarding this will most likely revolve around the possible effects it would have on iPhone players, who are not only the vast majority and so the main thing that seems appealing to PC players in the first place, but seem to be a quick and easy method of income.

If the 2 communities merged would there not be a possibility that it will become common knowledge among most iPhone players that the items they are buying are largely things that are obtainable on PC servers without having to pay?

Likewise if more iPhone players were to discover that there was a larger range of content on PC servers would they continue to find the concept of character customisation as appealing?

[fowlplay4]

Originally Posted by skillmaster19

Why would anyone want to play classic iPhone on PC anyway? Its a terrible server and if you already have a gold subscription why not just play a better server?

Player count makes people do crazy things.

[DustyPorViva]

Has Graal ever been anything other than a social game?

[ffcmike]

Originally Posted by DustyPorViva

Has Graal ever been anything other than a social game?

Has there ever been a unanimous positive feeling that Graal is a decent fun game that anybody can genuinely enjoy which is moving forward and not going downhill?

Ofcourse Graal has predominantly been a social game throughout its existance, and albeit while there are many contributing factors, how many people are satisfied with the end product?

[DustyPorViva]

Originally Posted by ffcmike

how many people are satisfied with the end product?

A lot of iPhone players?

[ffcmike]

Originally Posted by DustyPorViva

A lot of iPhone players?

I wasn't referring to iPhone as it's an entirely different environment to PC Graal that is yet to experience the same factors PC Graal has over the last decade, but there does seem to be alot of iPhone players that have completely migrated to PC Graal and happen to feel the way about it I am suggesting.

[Crono]

its funny that the #1 performance killer on graal is text

seriously...

[nullify]

It's pretty complex man. All those shapes and colors.

[Fulg0reSama]

Originally Posted by Crono

its funny that the #1 performance killer on graal is text

seriously...

Originally Posted by nullify

It's pretty complex man. All those shapes and colors.

Nothing fixes that like limiting it to where they'll shut the **** up at like 80 characters maybe by force.

[Demisis_P2P]

Originally Posted by Fulg0reSama

Nothing fixes that like limiting it to where they'll shut the **** up at like 80 characters maybe by force.

Half an SMS? i dnt wan ppl 2 tlk lyk dis all ova graal.

Wouldn't hiding text outside of a 16 tile radius of the player be a better way to do it?

And then just show the little "typing..." icon from iPhone Graal above players with chat text outside that radius, and maybe color the bubble red if their text includes your character's nick or community name?

[Fulg0reSama]

Originally Posted by Demisis_P2P

Half an SMS? i dnt wan ppl 2 tlk lyk dis all ova graal.

Wouldn't hiding text outside of a 16 tile radius of the player be a better way to do it?

And then just show the little "typing..." icon from iPhone Graal above players with chat text outside that radius, and maybe color the bubble red if their text includes your character's nick or community name?

I kind of like the idea of taking the concept of your idea; use that idea and add upon that towards the chat system itself to where the text fades by distance that way it isn't such a distraction at all.

[Demisis_P2P]

Originally Posted by Fulg0reSama

I kind of like the idea of taking the concept of your idea; use that idea and add upon that towards the chat system itself to where the text fades by distance that way it isn't such a distraction at all.

patent pending

[Darugo]

A lot of this conversation is simply speculation. We could try combining both of the platforms as an open beta to see if they can work together.

[MattKan]

Bump

Any update on this?

[Admins]

Yes planned for next version