its funny that the #1 performance killer on graal is text

seriously...

It's pretty complex man. All those shapes and colors.

Nothing fixes that like limiting it to where they'll shut the **** up at like 80 characters maybe by force.

Half an SMS? i dnt wan ppl 2 tlk lyk dis all ova graal.

Wouldn't hiding text outside of a 16 tile radius of the player be a better way to do it?

And then just show the little "typing..." icon from iPhone Graal above players with chat text outside that radius, and maybe color the bubble red if their text includes your character's nick or community name?

I kind of like the idea of taking the concept of your idea; use that idea and add upon that towards the chat system itself to where the text fades by distance that way it isn't such a distraction at all.

patent pending

A lot of this conversation is simply speculation. We could try combining both of the platforms as an open beta to see if they can work together.

Bump

Any update on this?

Yes planned for next version

:cool:

Another thing I'd like to see on the iPhone servers is confirmation popups. I've bought countless things I didn't want, added people, removed people, etc all because there's no confirmation on any actions you can do.

I second this.

I also think that you could move the buttons around in the More section of the profile. "View Guild" is in the same thing as "Recruit to Guild" depending on whether or not the player has on a guild tag. This is annoying- I often recruit people I don't want. I think that all the buttons should have their own spot on the More section of the profile- the ones that are not applicable to be pressed at the time should be either invisible or greyed out


Also, I've been having big connecton problems to the server. Whenever I click the app to load, it goes to the loading screen before crashing. This repeats about 3 or 4 times before actually loading. Sometimes I have to restart the device, as well. It's very annoying, and it's not my own problem because everything else works fine, could you please fix it somehow?

Ah sorry to disappoint but it doesnt seem to be simple, not sure if we can add it soon (keyboard)
About crash on startup: the next version is using much less memory and textures, so it should work better.

Edit: I misread what he said. Anyways, could you add and option to enable retina display so you can zoom out on the ipod 4?

...thats one hell of an assumption to draw from "the next version is using much less memory and textures"

I believe the iPad uses an 'HD' version of the Graal application... How on earth is Graal in HD? >_<

By HD, it means you get a special icon on the homescreen with 3 characters instead of one on it. (That goes for both iPad and retina display on iphones)

That was the joke. xD But I think it allows the iPad users to decrease the distance away from the character by selecting a 'zoom' checkbox.

Yeah, but then everything has humongous pixels- i think it is intended for Graal iPhone's blind players

Last time I checked, 3rd party movement tools don't work. I tried one time to use Era on my iDevice and I could talk but couldn't use any movement keys; most likely to prevent macros.

People talk about screen size advantage, couldn't they just put something in to make it wen you connected to iphone server, via pc, to limit the windows "viewing area"?"

And I don't see how that is an unfair advantage anyway, hardly anyone fights, just talking about getting there next bf or gf

It's kind of annoying on iPhone Era. Mainly when you get those iPad players who brag about being able to kill you while being 30+ tiles off of your iPhone/iPod Touch screen.

Exactly.
So why let ipad users play? They have an advantage. There's perfectly no good reason why you can't go on the iphone servers on PC.
There would be absolutely no advantage in classic iphone. I don't count sparring because barley anyone spars on iphone classic.
It wouldn't matter for era because it's already unbalanced like jiroxys said, ipad uses can snipe you from 30 tiles away.
I want to be able to play classic/era iphone without getting raped every 5 seconds because of lag on my itouch 2g.
Stefan, you have to face it. Classic/Era iphone will never be fair.

Hmm

So I was here on the Graal Forums on my iPod, and I found a picture posted by Kevin Azite. I took a screenshot...

http://i948.photobucket.com/albums/a...1/3ed659ab.jpg

It's almost an entire level and I have no problem seeing it. It makes me think that there isn't enough of the level shown on Classic iPhone.

I think there should be an option to "zoom out" a little so you can see more of the level.

Great ideas in this thread!