map scan

[yneos]

dont exactly know what to call it, but how about a button we can press, and it will scan the map for us, so we can do that once a internet restart, and if a god spawns we dont have to try to kill ourself waiting for the maps to load

hmm thats the best i can explain it <.< but i think it would be a good idea

[Rampid_Justin]

Basically caching all the map images?

It'd be a real load on the servers to have people go to that page since it would have to download EVERY image..

[trojanhorse]

i don't think i get u can u explain a bit more

[Wizzy]

For slower connection users like me, waiting for the DC map to load really slows me down :(

And I know that smartarse answer is to get a better connection and I would if I could :-P

[Slim9092]

Meh its not that much of a necessity, i have a relatively fast internet connection and don't really mind the Ow maps loading.

[Wizzy]

Not all players have a fast connection.

[yneos]

no i dont mean cacheing the map. i mean you press "scan map" or some button, and it bacily takes you around diamond city "clearing" the map for you. could possably make it zoom out, so it gets more of DC at once.

like say you can see 4 squars in each direction, it brings you to room1, you can see 1 2 3 4, then it brings you to 8 so yo ucan see 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 and it just keeps jumping around dc untill the entire map is loaded

ya i knew i would suck at explaining it but im trying xD

[Sparda1234]

now that the map is built is there really any need to have it pull the image tiles one by one from DB? I mean you could just have it load the full image then it would be much faster i would have thought. It would only need to load the image once when you went into dc and not have to get more images from DB every time they moved.

[PlayaFoSho]

I think he means to have all the images saved so it wont take so long to load the map images to move in dc. hence making it faster to move.

[Egnar]

which is exactly what Justin said, no? Because doing such pushes it into your cache folder.

[Sparda1234]

Yes but loading the full image wouldnt it would have to load just one image not all everytime you move

like what takes longer to load...

http://www.dks-gfx.com/dci/ravenforforum.php

or just

http://www.dks-gfx.com/dci/things/raven3.jpg

[PlayaFoSho]

which is exactly what Justin said, no? Because doing such pushes it into your cache folder.

if you were talking to me... then no I dont mean casheing the room's just the map image itself so it can load to move to the next room.