Possible to make "old spell effects" an option in the options menu?

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Senvilan

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Hey everyone, I just recently returned to the game, and after going through the steps to get the old spell effects working again, I started thinking... how hard would it really be to make the old spell effects as a checkable option in the options menu?

I know what most of you are probably thinking, "It's not like it's that hard, just do it manually." Of course, I'm fine doing it manually, but some people would just rather not even think of altering the contents in their folders, especially based on instructions coming from some random forum dweller, for fear of messing something up. Maybe, if making it a checkable option were out of the question, the instructions on how to do it could be stickied somewhere?

In all fairness, I'm pretty new to the server (I know the account isn't exactly new, but I haven't really played much as of yet), so I'm not sure if there's some huge negative to using the old partical effects on this server that I'm simply not aware of. Feel free to fill me in if that's the case.

Basically, I'm just one of those nostalgic freaks that really enjoys the allure of the original effects, and I personally find them more visually appealing to the new ones (well, most of them anyway). Not to mention, it was always much easier to raid with them, for me anyway.

Anyway, I didn't want to start a flame thread or anything, but I'm guessing this is probably one of those more controversial issues since it's kind of a black and white topic (You either like the new ones, or the old ones, rarely both). I only ask that if you really want to flame, just send it to me in a PM and try to keep the post civil.

Thanks for your input :).
 
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Our hands are usually tied when it comes to direct client changes, which I believe this would fall under.
 
Zaknafean said:
Our hands are usually tied when it comes to direct client changes, which I believe this would fall under.
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Hmm, well, I was just thinking that it might be possible to make it so the files are removed (the files needed for the new effects) with an option in the options menu. Honestly though, I have no idea how difficult it would be to do something like that :p.

Ah well, it was just a thought anyway :). Thanks for the response.
 
Zaela said:
Even if we could do this, I think the spell effect files are only loaded when you log in to the server, so you would have to log all the way out to sever select every time you wanted to change them anyway.

Plus, it really is really easy to do it yourself anyway!
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Oh, well I was actually talking about the options menu that you use for character models and such, so you wouldn't be logged into the server anyway. I can definitely understand that making it an option in-game would be way too impractical :p. Sorry, I should have clarified which options menu I was referring to.

And yeah, that's true; but I do think that many people are probably reluctant to try something that was written by some random person. If the instructions were written and stickied by someone official, I think many more people would give it a shot. Not to mention, many people may have no idea that it's even possible to use the old spell effects in this day and age (Heck, I first learned it was possible back in 2006 with the progression server lol), so they don't think to search the forums about it.

Thanks for your response :).
 
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Why not make this a checkbox on the patcher? It would go along well with the future bundled UIs.
 
Perhaps in the future but this is one of those things that is way way on the backburner.

Gunder has already had a huge amount of work put on his shoulders with the new patcher. This would be somethign he could do in the distant future. (Go gunder go!)
 
Completely understandable :). This definitely isn't anything worth focusing a bunch of time on.

Pretty much just one of those "food for thought" things :p.

Thanks for you comment, and a big thanks to Gunder for all the hard work.
 
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