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Speed of camera mode

I dont know if its just me because of my connection or the camera is slow for everyone? I wish it could be faster so it would be more useful. Even adding an extra skill to make it faster would be cool. Right now my character could move faster then the camera so looking around is pointless unless I am mining. What does everyone else think?

Posted 14 months ago by vcazan Subscriber! | Permalink

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  • I find it to be quite slow too. Thought it might be useful for helping to locate sparkly in Ajaya but it's still better to just run and jump around.
    Posted 14 months ago by Toksyuryel Subscriber! | Permalink
  • Yeah it is slow, and it would be nice to have a draggable viewfinder box on the minimap, but I figured it was done that way on purpose to keep from being overpowered, or because the client couldn't handle otherwise... Just a guess though.
    Posted 14 months ago by katlazam Subscriber! | Permalink
  • Yes slow, but still fun.
    Posted 14 months ago by emdot Subscriber! | Permalink
  • I was excited and got the eyeball skill becase I thought it would help me seek out spots to mine.  Unfortunately it scrolls around so slowly that it's just as fast to just walk as normal to find the rocks.  And when I do spot rocks I have to walk there then anyway.  I can just hit printscreen on my keyboard to take a picture.  What's the value of an in-game camera? I am not asking this rhetorically.  Is there some extra function or value in the in-game pictures?
    Posted 14 months ago by Parrow Gnolle Subscriber! | Permalink
  • nah, I find it to be fine -  easier than jumping round one of the big levels in the Deeps
    Posted 14 months ago by shhexy corin Subscriber! | Permalink
  • Way too slow.  Fun, but not too useful.  Although I don't have eyeball skill, maybe that is faster?
    Posted 14 months ago by Laurali Subscriber! | Permalink
  • It totally depends on your computer -- on my slow computer it's even slower than walking, on my husband's better computer it's fairly zippy.  I definitely would like it if we could use the minimap to jump the camera viewpoint, esp. since I learned the skill in hopes of using it to work around the slow computer's limitations.
    Posted 14 months ago by Fnibbit Subscriber! | Permalink
  • It *is* useful, though. I'm a screenshotter... I have hundreds of screenshots from the game. But the problem with traditional screenshots is that there is all kinds of extraneous bits -- chat windows, quoins, bags, levels, etc. With the camera you can a.) choose your camera view (pan to find the composition you want) and b.) get screenshots without the extraneous.

    I like it a lot! It's slow (it is!)... and I still took a couple of regular screenshots yesterday... but the results are good.

    Crossing fingers we can get larger views (meaning the whole street or our entire house?) at some later date.
    Posted 14 months ago by emdot Subscriber! | Permalink
  • It seems like it used to be faster, for me. I would hit the auto-run arrow while strolling through Xalanga, and I could scroll ahead faster than I could run, so I could scout below-ground in order to see if any (qu/c)oins were left down there before I actually got to the ladder, thus minimizing back-tracking.

    Only since a couple days ago has it been painfully slow for me.

    I'd suspect that my having changed my version of flash from the debugger to the most recent were related (did this because of the way issu.com works; long story, sad story, beside the point). Except, I did that a couple of weeks ago. The camera mode speed change happened to me just a few days ago, I think.
    Posted 14 months ago by Vortexae Subscriber! | Permalink