Palladium Update

Today I noticed that in addition to the new font for usernames, palladium (and other ores) and booty boxes move now. My computer has a horrible graphics card, and I can barely get above 20 fps when playing with the lowest settings. However, with all of this moving palladium in an already laggy 5-3, my computer literally freezes every few seconds.

Will there be an option to lower to graphics-intensive movement of such ores?

edit: I just remembered that the "Low" option on resources in the settings menu would prevent cargo and ores from moving. What happened to this option? Does this mean that the graphics-intensive movement of such things will be here to stay?

 

I always had that graphics movement.

 

I always had it turned off because the number of ships and NPCs always made the experience laggy for me. Never being able to get above 20 fps in 5-3 is frustrating

 

Check to see if you have hardware acceleration enabled in Flash Player, if you don't have it you'll see a big change in performance. To check this, log into the game, open the spacemap, after it loads and you can play, right-click anywhere in the game, and from the menu that pos up choose "Settings", after that small window opens, if the tick box "Enable hardware acceleration" in not checked, then check it. After that restart your browser. If it is already checked than that's the best your pc can do.
I googled for this because i couldn't play videos on youtube at 4k quality, now runs smooth like butter.

 

I've done that months ago. As I said, my computer is extremely old and the graphics card is so bad that I can't run games like TF2, etc.

I've noticed that the "Low" option now is essentially the same as the "High" option for Resources and Boxes. What's the point of even having an option now?

 

It is probably only a bug. You know when they ''fix'' things more and more bugs appear..

 

When i set it to Low the resources and boxes are just some still sprites, and when High they are animated swfs.

 

It might have been done on purpose to hinder palladium and bonus box pixel bots - they needed to use the still image to detect palladium or bonus boxes. Now they can't detect them because the spite is constantly moving.

Or as already mentioned it could be a glitch that has coincidently caused for all the pixel bots to go offline x)

 

At Low, the sprites are animated!

 

And that is the update against the palladium bots

 

Yes, now they are, at the time i made the post they weren't.

 

I stopped using the low feature, but if this is the case i 100% support it and think everyone should stop crying lol.

 

This can't be a permanent solution against pixel bots. A very skilled programmer could still use image processing in such a way to detect the boxes even if they're moving, because when the map background is turned off, they are the only thing with lighter colors and the small white dots can be easily ruled out of the algorithm. And there's always swf injection, but that can be easily detected if the devs would take the time to do it (if they hadn't already). I just hope they-ll come back with a permanent solution that can't be bypassed just by doing a little more work.

 

May be I should turn my settings on so I can see my resources to see what everyone is talking about / after all the only reason I go to pally map is for Quest and ship kills

 

You are 100% correct in saying this won't be a permanent solution, if this is something DO has done on purpose then it is just starting a game of cat and mouse with bot developers.
Like when the encryption on packets was changing, the bots would be offline for a couple days then online for half a week, offline for a couple days, online for half a week and so on.

 

I hope this is just a bug, I play on low settings for more than 3 years.

For me is not a solution and for many others, I like smooth battles and play.

As Silviu said, this can be fixed by a good programmer, so I hope will return back the option for low settings.

 

is everyone upset about how pally seems to float up and down

 

new graphic can be against pixel bots but can be also connected with 3D darkorbit in the future...no?

something like first step, beginning of 3D updates

 

The things moved from the very beginning so no.

 

i have low feature 4 years so i don't know.... You are right

but i don't have a problem with my fps(just normal computer, nothing special)
and i don't think that it will return back for low settings because of bots