Let's talk about (perfectly functioning) features that need to go away

[Coolthulhu]

Is there a way to manually set the size of the reality bubble? I don’t know if the client or the hardware would be the cause of critical failure, but if the performance is more weighted on by the hardware then people with beefier rigs could up the range of their bubble.

When compiling the game, you can set make MAPSIZE=<size>. Default is 11. Game isn’t guaranteed to be stable with any other value.
I haven’t seen a single bug report regarding different bubble size. This means that either it is stable enough or totally untested and prone to crashes.

[stk2008]

any chance having that as an option in the well options setting for those like me who cant compile?

And just put some big ass warning next to it tbh pleaseeeeeee

[jcd]

Afaik cata works in some ways like these games where things are simulated outside bubble. That is, at local maploads some things get checked and modified depending on time of day, random spawns etc.
Cata does this for food and solars and funnels, but it could certainly be expanded. It 'd be really nice for NPC’s to adher to a daily timeschedule…

[Coolthulhu]

any chance having that as an option in the well options setting for those like me who cant compile?

Not any time soon, I guess.

Cata does this for food and solars and funnels, but it could certainly be expanded. It 'd be really nice for NPC’s to adher to a daily timeschedule…

The biggest problem is having partially loaded maps. Note that solars, funnels and food don’t have to “look around”, that’s why they’re easy.
This means we can update them at the moment they’re loaded.
NPCs and monsters already regenerate (and tire, in case of NPCs) outside the bubble, but to get them to move around, we’d need some system to figure out map connections and simplified interactions offscreen. And that won’t be easy for multiple reasons.

[John_Candlebury]

Yeah I don’t really like the unyielding menu much. I think it would be much better if it only triggered if, for example, you pressed “W” and w just threw whatever you are carrying into the most appropriate container.

[TheFlame52]

Oh! Warnings for animals that aren’t dangerous. I don’t care if a dog wandered behind a tree and out again, it’s a dog. I don’t need to stop crafting or driving or whatever to hit no to a prompt that says I should stop waiting because a tough zombie popped out of a bush 50 tiles and 70mph behind me.

[Random_dragon]

I would find it interesting if there was a way to edit the desired size of the reality bubble, so if you have a system that can handle simulating reality for miles away, have at it.

The be honest, my biggest pet peeve at the moment? Sewing. It uses so much bloody thread just to make small repairs. This has come up repeatedly, there have been positive leanings towards maybe reducing thread consumption, but no concrete ideas on HOW MUCH to reduce it have come up. -w-

[pisskop]

Well . . . How far do headlighs light up? is it an infinite distance?

[TheFlame52]

Nah, it’s like a map tile and a half.

[pisskop]

So lets make the reality bubble that plus 10 or 15 or so?

Kind of a small pet peeve when I suddenly get bathed in light without warning as the headlights load.

[kevin.granade]

NPCs and monsters already regenerate (and tire, in case of NPCs) outside the bubble, but to get them to move around, we’d need some system to figure out map connections and simplified interactions offscreen. And that won’t be easy for multiple reasons.

It’s not, which is why it’s proceeding very slowly. That and the huge # of PRs people throw at the project, 300+ PRs in the last month, holy crap. It’s the main thing I’m working on when I’m not merging or bugfixing.

any chance having that as an option in the well options setting for those like me who cant compile?

I would find it interesting if there was a way to edit the desired size of the reality bubble, so if you have a system that can handle simulating reality for miles away, have at it.

That number is touching one of the most performance critical parts of the entire game, turning it into a number configured at run-time would not only be a pain in the ass code wise, but would likely slow down the game even if you don’t change it.

So lets make the reality bubble that plus 10 or 15 or so?

You may not realize this, but you’re literally asking for the game to do something like 4x as much work to handle this one thing.

tl;dr, there are good reasons the reality bubble is not bigger than it already is, someone might be able to experiment with upping it and see what bugs crop up and how it’s handled performance wise, but I wouldn’t hold my breath.

[Random_dragon]

That number is touching one of the most performance critical parts of the entire game, turning it into a number configured at run-time would not only be a pain in the ass code wise, but would likely slow down the game even if you don’t change it.

That’s what I was afraid of. It’s one thing to give the player the freedom to handle as much reality as their system can take, but if adding the support for it would bog things down then it isn’t worth it.

I would be fully in favor of it if there was an efficient way to handle it, though. But you know me, given the !!quality!! of my source code edits I wouldn’t have so much as a vague idea for what to SUGGEST, let along how to do it.

[Wally-kun]

The issue with the headlights suddenly materializing out of nowhere and putting you on the spot has almost killed me several times. As far as I can tell, the best solution would be to lower the range of the headlights so that when they DO just sort of manifest, it’s not in a potentially fatal way. Or at least, a slightly less potentially fatal way.

[Random_dragon]

The issue with the headlights suddenly materializing out of nowhere and putting you on the spot has almost killed me several times. As far as I can tell, the best solution would be to lower the range of the headlights so that when they DO just sort of manifest, it’s not in a potentially fatal way. Or at least, a slightly less potentially fatal way.

That does seem sensible. Most headlights are angled downward so that they eventually terminate at the ground a good distance in front of the car, right? :V

Alternatively, it might just need to actually fade out into lower light levels over time, instead of just being a cone of infinite max-intensity light.

[Ferodaktyl]

i totally agree with the OP about the weapon menu. All it does is adding an extra action on my part. Give me a warning if i’m about to drop it on the ground because the inventory is full, that’s fine, but otherwise just drop it in the inventory like it used to.

[TheKobold]

I do like how it works when i am unholstering/unsheathing a weapon and im holding one though.

[Rivet]

I really like the little menu that lets me wear/sheath/holster stuff without having to activate anything first, but I could see changing it so that it it checks whether the item in your hand is a weapon or not and only asks if it is, automatically placing the item into your inventory if it is not.

[Arek_PL]

i actualy like this new menu but i think it should check if this weapon is sheathable or holsterable and if there is free holster/sheath/scabbad
this will probaly make everyone happy

[zackj44]

Oh! Warnings for animals that aren’t dangerous. I don’t care if a dog wandered behind a tree and out again, it’s a dog. I don’t need to stop crafting or driving or whatever to hit no to a prompt that says I should stop waiting because a tough zombie popped out of a bush 50 tiles and 70mph behind me.

This is especially irritating for me. I like to play with Animal Empathy and it still gives me warnings about dogs. I wish when I ignored them that they would stay ignored.

[Arek_PL]

maybe make change that tracking do not cause alert, only hostile