MongoJerry,Jan 18 2005, 12:36 AM Wrote:Well... that's only part of the reason. The primary reason they gave was a technical one involving the fact that as you run along and meet NPC's, there's a check on the server to see if that NPC has any quests that you would qualify for -- i.e. it determines if it needs to put a yellow or grey ! or ? over the NPC's head. Allowing more quests to be in one's quest log somehow slowed down this process significantly. (Don't ask me how. I'm just the messenger). At least, that's why they say they won't allow a huge expansion of the quest log. Still, increasing the size to, say, 30 would be helpful.
I call that a bad excuse and sloppy coding. Since they want to send the exclamation mark, they might as well just send available quest info and left the client sort out the colour if any and type of exclamation mark to render on the screen. Perhaps someone can come out with some absue, I can't off hand. Still, even processing it on the server, I can't see the big technical obstacle slowing it all down.
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