Test server notes 2/24/2009

[Edward Edgemenace]

Sailing: Compass is unbearable. Now instead of three tiers of compass zoom, there are four...the "zoomed in" view is equivalent to yesterday's "zoomed out" view. Impossible now, to check crew member positions.

Sailing: broadsides missing at normal range more than 75% of the time.

Teleport: "You are already there!" is still preventing normal teleports. If released to open, will cause a major outcry - the programmers will have headaches for weeks and the tech support people will burn out from the complaints in 20 minutes.

Quest tracking MIGHT be fixed on compass, but it is too hard to tell.

MEMORY: 1.27 GB in under 5 minutes of play. (Only 1 GB available - the rest in swap.) Takes two or three pirates on OPEN to use that much memory...
EDIT: Big memory consumption seems to be from boarding/return to port/reboarding.

Lockups, of course, from exhausted memory. Also back to getting the loading screen error launching my own ship.