VMK staff, please see post #22

[Slinkyman]

Hi,

I voted other since I don't see much difference, but only the clothing takes longer.

Thanks,
slinkyman

 

[Mnementh]

If you could keep this bumped near the top for the slim chance that a VMK staff member may read it, I would greatly appreciate it!


Dear VMK,

For the last month or two, because of the current game loading situation, it has been extremely difficult to play your game. I still greatly enjoy the game and would love to continue to play, but it has become very frustrating, as this situation has continued for too long.

When I try to log into the game, it will take 45 minutes to an hour on a good day. On a good day, it will take 15 minutes for a single room to load, even if I have already been in that room once before. On a good day, it will take an hour for my furniture to load and hours (yes, hours, plural) for my clothes to load. And don't even get me started on how long it takes rooms like the Mansion lobby and the Fantasyland rides, which load everything before you get on them, to load. On a bad day, well, I can't count that high. This never happened when the game loaded the way it used to.

It seems to me that these new features (the blue swirl while the clothes load and the green swirling box while the inventory loads) are having the opposite effect of what was intended. Now, if it was just me struggling with the slowness, I would try my best to look past it, irritating though it may be, but as you can see from the poll above, the overwhelming majority has stated that they have not seen a benefit from the new loading features and, in many cases, they have seen a slow down, as I have. Of course, this survey doesn't take into account people who have not voted and people who do not use the Disboards, so there is no telling how many others are affected by this. All I ask is, if it is in any way possible, please PLEASE go back to the old loading method. It would help not only me, but many, many other VMK players. If a VMK staff member reads this who has no control over this situation, I ask that you please let someone know who can do something about it.

Thank you for taking the time to read this.

 

[llama62]

i voted yes. Bottom line people, if VMK is slow, time to upgrade the Windows 1995 B.C.!!

 

[VMK_MagicalLadee]

If they take the blue swirly thing away.. I wont be able to trade anymore..

 

[GoofyGeggy]

If they take the blue swirly thing away.. I wont be able to trade anymore..

Just out of curiosity, how come you won't be able to trade anymore if they take away the blue twister? Were you not able to trade before they implemented that change?

 

[vmkfan13]

They put NO sense at all in the blue swirly people,
you really think adding more constant animation would really help lag?

As for the clothing.. I would really like to see an easier way of changing your avatar's clothing. Possibly a inventory selection rather then pressing arrow buttons many times just to change your character's shirt.

I prefer the previous method of loading everything on VMK all at once, instead of going through five different loading screens just to get on VMK.

 

[JulyGirl]

It takes me much longer to simply sign on now. I was loading extrememly fast before Halloween. Clothing changes are ridiculous. I lag so much when changing clothes that I've been in the same smelly clothes for a couple weeks! LOL

 

[Pinkkittengirl]

If you could keep this bumped near the top for the slim chance that a VMK staff member may read it, I would greatly appreciate it!


Dear VMK,

For the last month or two, because of the current game loading situation, it has been extremely difficult to play your game. I still greatly enjoy the game and would love to continue to play, but it has become very frustrating, as this situation has continued for too long.

When I try to log into the game, it will take 45 minutes to an hour on a good day. On a good day, it will take 15 minutes for a single room to load, even if I have already been in that room once before. On a good day, it will take an hour for my furniture to load and hours (yes, hours, plural) for my clothes to load. And don't even get me started on how long it takes rooms like the Mansion lobby and the Fantasyland rides, which load everything before you get on them, to load. On a bad day, well, I can't count that high. This never happened when the game loaded the way it used to.

It seems to me that these new features (the blue swirl while the clothes load and the green swirling box while the inventory loads) are having the opposite effect of what was intended. Now, if it was just me struggling with the slowness, I would try my best to look past it, irritating though it may be, but as you can see from the poll above, the overwhelming majority has stated that they have not seen a benefit from the new loading features and, in many cases, they have seen a slow down, as I have. Of course, this survey doesn't take into account people who have not voted and people who do not use the Disboards, so there is no telling how many others are affected by this. All I ask is, if it is in any way possible, please PLEASE go back to the old loading method. It would help not only me, but many, many other VMK players. If a VMK staff member reads this who has no control over this situation, I ask that you please let someone know who can do something about it.

Thank you for taking the time to read this.

Nice letter. You should send this into the Contact Us button if you haven't already, just in case they happen to notice it there as well. I'm on my way to send in a complaint there myself - the more protests, the more they notice (I hope...). Anyway, it's worth a try.

On another note, I guess I shouldn't complain too much for myself. Your good day on VMK makes my worst day sound like paradise.

 

[jasonpwns]

Yes but if they change it back

ME AND OTHER VMKERS WON'T BE ABLE TO TRADE AT ALL!

Before the changes I could only make one trade every time I log on and if that trade was big I couldn't even move. With this new loading system I can finally trade more then once every login now.

So ask vmk to make a way that works for everyone and not just to your advantage and the other people that voted that on the poll. Because without the new inventory look it gives me tons of lag.

All I ask is, if it is in any way possible, please PLEASE go back to the old loading method. It would help not only me, but many, many other VMK players.

And for people like me and others it will effect our game play negatively.

 

[Macca1111]

They put NO sense at all in the blue swirly people,
you really think adding more constant animation would really help lag?

As for the clothing.. I would really like to see an easier way of changing your avatar's clothing. Possibly a inventory selection rather then pressing arrow buttons many times just to change your character's shirt.

I prefer the previous method of loading everything on VMK all at once, instead of going through five different loading screens just to get on VMK.

to all of that.

 

[Disneychick74]

I know it has been proposed to VMK many times but maybe here with all the slow complaints someone MIGHT actually see and listen to it...

WHY dosn't VMK give us Closets and Pin books for our rooms?
If we could leave the majority of our stuff in one place and not carry it all on our main characters things in the game would go much smoother.

I went to change my clothes the other day and it litterally took me 10 minutes to: A. Load and B. scroll to what I wanted with such lag that by the time I got to it, it was out of style and I could not wear it.

If we could have clothing and pin storage in our rooms like we do with furniture I thinkeveryone and everything would load faster and much more smoothly.
Another thing I do not understand is WHY on EARTH it takes so long to load the mansion lobby and The Dark Ride rooms. Mansion is out of control.
Just my 2 cents

 

[aengus]

I carry everything with me, and dont have the slow load times for clothing and items some are complaining about.

i wonder why some are so crippled while others are not?

 

[Diva of Dragons]

I carry everything with me, and dont have the slow load times for clothing and items some are complaining about.

i wonder why some are so crippled while others are not?

I was wondering the same thing. I store very few things in rooms and it never takes more than 1-2 minutes to load the game, and even less to enter a room. It only takes several seconds to enter a trade. I don't think it's a VMK problem. I think it's personal technology issue. However, even my DH's computer, which is at least 3 years old, runs the game just fine.

I hope everyone get things up and running smoothly!

 

[jasonpwns]

I was wondering the same thing. I store very few things in rooms and it never takes more than 1-2 minutes to load the game, and even less to enter a room. It only takes several seconds to enter a trade. I don't think it's a VMK problem. I think it's personal technology issue. However, even my DH's computer, which is at least 3 years old, runs the game just fine.

I hope everyone get things up and running smoothly!

Ye before the updated it took me about 5-10 minutes to get on the game. And when I would make trades it would take me just 1 trade for the game to lag up and id have to restart.

 

[mtlhddoc2]

I can sum it up a bit - ot is not nessecarily a "personal" tech issue, but may have to do with a variety of factors which are uncontrollable. ISP choice could be one issue, but it could also be simply a proximity issue. Regarless of your ISP, where you live comparable to where a site is hosted CAN make a big difference. Whenever you connect to the internet and go to a specific page, your connection goes through a series of "hops" to get there. These are servers run by a member of the world Internet consortium. Often they are large businesses or colleges. Sometimes, these "hops" are antiquated. sometimes, one of them is undergoing maintenance. Sometimes, they are just junk.

So, those in or near Texas, would have an eaier, and faster, time connecting to vMK than someone in say, New York.

 

[mtlhddoc2]

oh and I forgot to mention:

Often, for me, things will "disappear" in a trade window. Closing teh trade, opening a new one and then adding an item, will bring the item back, but it is REALLY annoying

 

[Mnementh]

I can sum it up a bit - ot is not nessecarily a "personal" tech issue, but may have to do with a variety of factors which are uncontrollable. ISP choice could be one issue, but it could also be simply a proximity issue. Regarless of your ISP, where you live comparable to where a site is hosted CAN make a big difference. Whenever you connect to the internet and go to a specific page, your connection goes through a series of "hops" to get there. These are servers run by a member of the world Internet consortium. Often they are large businesses or colleges. Sometimes, these "hops" are antiquated. sometimes, one of them is undergoing maintenance. Sometimes, they are just junk.

So, those in or near Texas, would have an eaier, and faster, time connecting to vMK than someone in say, New York.

That makes sense, but it still doesn't explain (at least in my personal case) why the game worked fine before the loading switch and not after.

 

[mtlhddoc2]

bandwidth could explain that, or frequency as well. There are alot of variables that are beyond the control of the host PC and the recipient PC.

 

[jasonpwns]

That makes sense, but it still doesn't explain (at least in my personal case) why the game worked fine before the loading switch and not after.

Same with how the game works BETTER after the loading switch for me.

 

[vmkfan13]

My only problem is loading clothes, I can load everything else in a few seconds.. even though I live in another country..