View range beyond a joke [please help]

[Velourium]

I'll take lower distance for a more stable server anyday.

Hopefully this is only a temporary fix...

[gobroncos]

At least have it adjusted during non peak hours. (like now when there's only 3k people on)

[Sigals]

There was an announcment in game yesterday from the admins saying something to the effect of "server optimisation patch applied" and as soon as this happened is when the view distance decreased. It is quite annoying as now I wont see mobs until im right on top of them, however the game is a lot more fluid now and theres not much delay when casting spells etc.

Hopefully they can come to a compromise.

[Gazpy]

this is normal on highly populated realms, even blizzard does it well, learn to live with it if you want population.
Tho you should be able to SEE WB's from very far away!!!!

[Arise]

Noticed this too. Walking into a seemingly empty area to suddenly find yourself surrounded by mobs.

[Tam]

low distance better than delay on peak times

i bet they r gonna keep it like this untill they find some solution to fix constant delay

[Noah]

Hmm, i see a lot more than 20 yards. But its still not the longest, but indeed playable.

//Noah

[Hyunckel]

I noticed this too. Sometimes, mobs and NPCs only spawn at about 20 yards away (about mid range of a Mage Frostbolt (35 yards) for ex) o_O

Though, if you go backpedaling for a dozen yards, they will stay visible until about ~ 40 yards then despawn.

But they won't reappear till ~ 20 yards lol.

Battlegrounds must be a huge pain in the ass with this o_O

That view distance / spawn / visibility is not a bug, it's set server side to prevent further lags and is well known on heavy populated private servers...

I remember a french wotlk server where there was no raid lockouts which got hugely popular (and primarily populated by immature kids) named Millenium Servers where they had to decrease view distance up to the point where YOU COULD NOT SEE ANYTHING PAST 20 YARDS ALL THE TIME.

It was pretty awful, considering you should normally be able to view, for ex, Stables and opposite faction players from the other side of the map lol.

With that awful view distance you couldn't even view them from the other side of Blacksmith when you were arriving ahah.

In the end that server became shit cause the dev were only looking at 'donation' profits and didn't fix the many bugs plaguing it. Now the population is at about ~ 1000 players max during peak evening / weekend hours yet still with crappy view distance lmao.

Tl ; dr please find a way to reduce lags when too many players are logged in BUT without reducing view distance!

Quite sad to be almost in melee range to be able to cast a 35 yards spell, isn't it?

[Gazpy]

you see all over the BG it's just World issue.

[Hyunckel]

you see all over the BG it's just World issue.

Oh, then it's even better in that case. Would be painful in battlegrounds otherwise