Have one long loading screen for all the areas in Haven instead of loading them separately (like WOW) OR have all the areas preloaded in background when a player enters Haven then if they go to bazaar or garrison it's a almost instant load. (like Runescape)
No loading screens in Haven
Tue, 08/27/2013 - 22:54
Tue, 08/27/2013 - 23:58
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Wed, 08/28/2013 - 01:10
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lol do you believe that OOO put the loading screen in haven because they wanted you wait for the map?
No, the reason that haven loads its because its another map that works like "hub" for players. Heaven its divided in 4 Hubs: TownSquare, Bazaar, Garrison and Arcade. which purpose is only to gather players in one point and connect other maps in the main hub, in order to avoid the "loading" screen in each hub OOO must make the haven in a WHOLE hub (this mean 1 single map) doing this, we dont going to have load screens in each hub BUT THE PROBLEM that comes with this its a BIG bunch of time to load the whole map of haven. if you dont like those 30 segs to 1 minute to load each map you dont going to like to wait 5 to 10 minutes to just enter to haven.
The reason to have Hubs in haven its to avoid the "overload" in maps, (reason why we have many heavens too) so each map would load quickly once the player enter to such map. better to have "small maps" that load quickly than a "big Map" with lot of events, scripting and of course, Players" that will take a big time to load (and probably will run slow due the amount of players there since the server must load every player every part of the map and load the things such players are doing there) add too effect suchs auras and sprites, haven would be really SLOW, so SLOW.
i prefer to have small maps that keep players in such area and run smoothly rather than have a big map with everyone there and make run slow the game due everything that the map must load.
its possible but not viable at this moment.
Adding a long load time onto the trip to Haven might be neat and all for the first little bit because you can run around freely, but people would get bored of running around and complain about how long the new load takes.
If you join a guild with a big guild hall, you can simply go to Haven's town square to craft pet food and use the Auction House, a subtown to talk to Brinks, the Hall of Heroes to buy recipes, and your guild hall for everything else. You can take a single, quick load screen to get to whatever you need.