Graphics... fix this now!(I want, we want...)
 

Notice the Man o' War in this picture.
This is on high graphics. Before the update ships did NOT look boxy from far away. They looked pretty decent, but now... I want to ask who thought of this. I don't care if it takes away lag, I want to see real looking ships.
http://www.piratesonlineforums.com/g...0_17-41-21.jpg

From Sven Niscadae in another thread.(after going to the panda 3d website I actually saw many posts on their forum where people asked if the memory leak would ever be fixed)
So... why have they been wasting time downgrading graphics instead of actually work on trying to fix that?

POTCO would be great if they didn't have bugs like this. So wouldn't it make more sense to be working on upgrading graphics and having more options as far as graphics?

With the new update a "new" fog system came out. Why can't be turn it off, because it looks hazy. I'm so picky when it comes to graphics, but I'm sure some of you are, too. So why Disney?

Come on, work on upgrading graphics and fixing that leak Disney. POTCO and toontown both have potential, but if you constantly put performance before graphics, the game is going to look ugly eventually. Fix that leak and then you won't need to worry about making ships boxy when they're far away.

That's just my opinion, though.

P.S. Just shot a ghost ship. No sounds for when the cannon balls hit it. They went right through the ship, but did damage.

The graphics stayed boxy until it was a war ship away from me. The masts moving is cool, but it's not realistic. One mast even jumped from the ship when it went off! If you're going to work on cool things like that, don't do a muddy job...

I understand your frustration Mac. I've long mourned the loss of swaying trees. The only place you can still see them is on Cuba and the other small islands. Not to mention the loss of farm animals wandering around town.

I really miss the better graphics.

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By jump I really mean JUMP.

These masts are like bunny rabbits. Real wooden masts would jump exactly like that. Odds are they would a bit, but it wouldn't look like that. They'd be better off making them fall down like in the movies.

Also... wood splintering in the future would be nice.

Whatever compelled the guys at Disney to make POTCO look like Runescape is an evil, evil thing...

Not saying I'm against the guys at Disney, I just wish they would work on making the game better... :/

i seem to have memories of splintering wood at some point... anyone else? or is that the rum?

I hadn't noticed the ships looking that boxy that close. Maybe I haven't seen a really big ship like a Man-O-War from far away yet, though, as I've mostly been hanging out around PR and Tortuga. I'll have to look again.
So you're saying you'd rather play with ships sliding around on the water and barely able to hit them because of the lag? Personally, I'd rather actually be able to sink the ship at 50% visual perfection than have a lag-unsinkable ship at 100% visual perfection. But that's just me.

For what it's worth, the image you posted above is a far, FAR cry from:
http://onthecurb.files.wordpress.com...nescape_b3.jpg

remember the skele figure that used to be on the ships- It seems the more they mess with it the more they mess up- I like the new game content they have put out in the last while but they need to leave the graphics be

Just curious.Did they take drivers off ships too?Because I haven't been seeing any.I'm OCD about them.

Wow. I completely forgot about the Skeleton Figureheads on the ships... Ships are like a plain brown paper bag now... it's a shame, really....

I think if we want to change many things back we should tell D as soon as we can and continue to say such so that they know it is a large problem.

I'm sorry that you couldn't see the boxy man-o-war in the picture, but I can, and it looked much better before the update.

Sliding around the water? Even when it's laggy ships don't "slide" on the water. It's more like twitching. And is it really that bad to ask for them to keep it the way it was before the update?

Ships up close look great! However, from far away I think most of us can agree that it looks like a few sticks stuck on a boxy. The sails are completely flat and straight, unlike before the update where from far away they looked fine. There wasn't much lag because they lowered the graphics on ships.

The close you got, the better they looked.

Now... it's either boxy, or great graphics.

Also, it took me a total of seven minutes to log on today. Before the update, it took maybe thirty seconds. It shouldn't take that long.

(I'm running on a windows vista and experience no lag what-so-ever for long periods of times. I don't understand why they downgrade the graphics so there's less lag when better computers with more memory are coming out.)

Not to mention if the panda3D engine itself has a leak, they should FIX THAT, and NOT lower the graphics. This game is beautiful up close but from far away... it's just ugly.

At least, Disney, make it so players can take away the boxy graphics through options so we can CHOOSE whether we want lag or not.(depending on your computer)
Like I said, beautiful game, but Disney keeps making it ugly because they'd rather downgrade graphics than fix a memory leak.(they also think the majority of their players play on a windows 98...)

Off the soap box... again.

I noticed tonight that when you shoot the sails they no longer get holes in them or didn't look like it to me-is it important, is it critical to game play-no but it just makes the game less real and as Mac said ugly

What I originally meant was that I hadn't noticed it in the game. I can see it clearly in the screenshot, but it looks like they've fixed that. Possibly with that short update they did a couple days ago. On live I'm not seeing them be that boxy model that close. I think they turn into the boxy model from a long way away, but it's really hard to tell. One that that is not fixed is the flat sails, which is really annoying, because it seems to be a medium distance that they suddenly go flat. From far away they're curved and billowing, then as you get closer they go flat, then they go curvy again. Really weird.

Also, I find it terribly hard to believe that they're not willing to fix a memory leak and instead would resort to downgrading graphics. Not to mention that the two really don't have much to do with each other - downgrading graphics is primarily a graphics card issue where a memory leak is a CPU/RAM issue. Where did this memory leak rumor even start? Is there any proof to it or is it just something that someone took out of context and now is being blamed for everything? Don't get me wrong, I think D went way too far in trying to make the seas run smoother by giving us boxy models, but I also know how forums can be in that one person makes an unsubstantiated claim and suddenly everyone takes it as the gospel truth.

Is it just me or did this game run WAY better 6 months ago? You know, before all the improvements?

Test seems fast since padres update...

They are listening and graphics seems a ton better:xmassmile:

Wrong mate. Thats how Runescape looked like very long ago. Now it has a kind of a fog thing like pirates, and HD looks alot better. But Pirates' graphics and gameplay are still much better

Um, there was no release notes or updates for the Padres invasion. Nonetheless apart from ships at a distance High Graphics rocks on POTCO.

Doesnt say but for me i was waiting 2 minutes on a teleport.
Now waiting 10 seconds. I think they worked on it but its me.
I dont have proof except for the time.

Since the update the low graphics make the game so crappy I refuse to use it any more. I've been using medium graphics - which seem to give me the same quality as low graphics before the update.
My biggest complaint is the lag issues. I could run pirates on high graphics before and not get the lag I am experiencing now. The server does not even have to be ideal any more. Get 3 or 4 people in the same area and my pirate slows down to a snail's pace - even healing is so slow I can't keep me mates alive.

Nothing's different on my end - so it has to be something they changed in the game.
:(

Not as computer savvy as many of you. But, I did read in Game News that memory leaks have been fixed. Can't recall at this time whether it was test or open or both though....

can't take it any more
 

I played today 12/21/09 and nothing is better as far as I can tell. I think for the first time ever, I logged off after apologizing to my guild mates - just because the lag made the game intolerable.

I sent in a feed back form AND a bug report complaining about this.

Kat
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The new updates are terrible, i have a high quality graphics card for my computer and the game lags a lot. Disney needs to fix all the bugs in this game ASAP or POTCO will end. I like this game but will not play it if it lags so much, the pirates of the caribbean franchise is great and a online game for it has great potential, but if it is full of bugs it is just a shame. We all need to tell disney to fix this game before it is too late, many of my friends are not playing the game anymore becuase of this! Why have u made a game that lags so much Disney?!

It apprears we all need to report this to D.But why would they change it if they already make the desicion?The only way to fix this is get enough,by far,to tell D this is a huge problem.This update has also had some of the greatest number of bugs in a very long time.We all need to tell D that we are being very frank about this,and also convince them that the complaining people aren't a bunch of an allied tween gang,they don't even know who is playing sometimes....The downgrading of animation is going to KILL this game if it continues.Edit:So its going better on test Aaron?I'll have to wait and see then,I just want to see decent quallity control.

i agree dockwrecker, we all need to tell disney that we do not like the new updates and they need to fix it.

They look the same on my computer
 

The graphics all look the same on my computer, which is 2 years old. I have medium graphics on and they look exactly the same. Same with the fog. I don't see a difference. But, then again, I didn't see a difference in graphics after an update in another game I played that had good graphics then people said they got worse after the update.

Merry Christmas, Happy New Year, Happy Hanukkah.

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Well a while ago a could play on high graphics without any kind of lag at all. Now i can barley play on low....

Each load screen takes like 5 minutes and every once in a while a get these big lag freeze ups that last for 2-3 minutes.

Did i mention that invasions are just a giant lag party? I say i probably get 5 fps there... And this doesn't happen with any other game.

~T~

Bumping up the thread simply because... it's fixed. For some weird reason, by luck, or because the developers saw this thread, the missing texture on padres is back on.



Before it looked great, then with the island changes the texture turned "chalky" and it was horrible looking. Now at sea it looks great again, along with some of the other islands.

I'm glad they fixed this, because sailing at sea looks a bit more beautiful again.

Good to hear MacIronhawk - thx for the update

Captain Whale