Turning off visual effects, how?

darkstarkirian

Is there a way to turn off the visual effects from the Fire Suppressors and Party Poppers for those of us that are tired of seeing them?

I have tryed adjusting about everything in my video settings and just don't know how.

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Update: Partial Solution to the Fire Suppressor, but not the Party popper, had been figured out.

kokushibyo wrote: »

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Thou it is a poor solution do to the fact that your Visual fx will look back, so you will have to change settings/revert settings.

Now just need a switch for the Popper.

centersolace

And ground abilities, and some space ones too! There's so much neon coloured TRIBBLE flying around my screen it's like a reverse Doom III sometimes.

darkstarkirian

centersolace wrote: »

And ground abilities, and some space ones too! There's so much neon coloured TRIBBLE flying around my screen it's like a reverse Doom III sometimes.

Exactly. A certain group of players, who them and their fleet shall remain unnamed, have made it a point to grief RPrs excessively with the Suppressors and Poppers. i'm hoping there is a way to "turn them off" visually on my side so i don't just get to ignore the individual, i can also "ognore" what they are doing, because it's hard to "ignore" a whiteout visual effect that is covering my screen.

aethon3050

[firstworldproblems]I just wish there was a way to disable the eyesore that is Borg ship visuals (on other ships; mine are already disabled, in the cases where it's used). Shields aside, they look absolutely terrible. I'm normally not bothered by this kind of stuff, but every time a beautiful ship warps in, it saddens me to see its gorgeous lines ruined by all this TRIBBLE sticking out all over the place. I don't even see the appeal in it.[/firstworldproblems]

The party poppers and tribblewerfers don't bother me, though. It actually brightens my day to see people doing the train at DS9 with the party poppers and stuff going off everywhere, lol. I find it rather amusing, especially since people running by end up kicking the tribbles everywhere.

darkstarkirian

aethon3050 wrote: »

[firstworldproblems]I just wish there was a way to disable the eyesore that is Borg ship visuals (on other ships; mine are already disabled, in the cases where it's used). Shields aside, they look absolutely terrible. I'm normally not bothered by this kind of stuff, but every time a beautiful ship warps in, it saddens me to see its gorgeous lines ruined by all this TRIBBLE sticking out all over the place. I don't even see the appeal in it.[/firstworldproblems]

The party poppers and tribblewerfers don't bother me, though. It actually brightens my day to see people doing the train at DS9 with the party poppers and stuff going off everywhere, lol. I find it rather amusing, especially since people running by end up kicking the tribbles everywhere.

Oh, at one time i was quite fond of them as well, but nowadays i just find them annoying. That's why i'm hoping to find a way to "turn them off" on my screen. Either an adjustment to my settings when i need to change them or a toggle in the video settings that says "Activate poppers []yes []no" with default being on, so those of us that have gotten tired of them don't have to see them, but doesn't ruin the other players fun.

targpetz101

+1 /signed and all that
What are the settings?

zebular

They just need to update with what they did in the past and make these things also not work in public areas.

centersolace

zebular wrote: »

They just need to update with what they did in the past and make these things also not work in public areas.

Oh yes please, Lag Wars over DS9 are tiresome.... -_-

sollvax

Hell charge them 1 zen a second when used outside a mission

jexsamx

*activates his party poppers back and forth*

I'm sorry, I can't hear you over how much fun I'm having! Why don't you like fun!?

sollvax

"Fun "Enjoyment achieved without hurting anyone else or being an annoyance

"Antisocial behaviour" Enjoyment achieved by annoying other people

jexsamx

You made the first one up. But that's not surprising considering the myriad other silly things you say on a daily basis.

But anyway. I suppose I owe this thread an actual, serious response.

Ahem.


I disagree with this idea. The party poppers are relatively harmless, and easily avoided by a zone change. They do not cause significant lag unless your machine is literally bottom-of-the-barrel, and I can attest to this as my laptop is TRIBBLE, but runs STO fairly well with minimum settings, and is suprisingly unaffected by even the worst popper spam.

This isn't like the Breen grenades, where throwing one into a large group would cause such terrible lag even my quite capable gaming PC would choke up. Those needed to be dealt with, though perhaps they were neutered too harshly.

Even worse, one or two of you suggested disabling them entirely in social zones. Are you mad? These are strictly social devices, they have no point outside of social environments. They are meant to be party objects. That'd be as stupid as disabling pets in social zones.

In short, no. I disagree.

kyeto13

There is no way to selectively turn off the visuals of other players. Either you see them, or your don't. The sever is not going to start selectively censoring players who are using abilities that TRIBBLE you off :rolleyes: That will take about twice the processing power on the sever side then we already use, lag the game down more, and divert dev attention away from fixing more prevalent bugs and content. So it is a lose-lose-lose and another lose situation.

There is also this lovely little button called "Report Player" that you can click when you right click on their portrait. Use it, don't abuse it.

Personally, I like going onto ESD and seeing people having fun. Sometime my fleet have spam fights just for lulz.

Also, I have to agree with jexsamx. These are strictly social items. So in fact, they are built for social zones. If you have any problems with these, make a quick up to the zone next door.

sollvax

Fire suppressors are NOT social

they are emergency systems

and you think i made up fun??

mb52

Used responsibly and properly.. the items are fine. The big issue is of course, people who go out of their way to TRIBBLE with other peoples fun. To the point of following people around the various instances.

centersolace

mb52 wrote: »

Used responsibly and properly.. the items are fine. The big issue is of course, people who go out of their way to TRIBBLE with other peoples fun. To the point of following people around the various instances.

Yes this is a problem. I've seen lots of people ask for help dealing with particularly troublesome ones.

But even the combat abilities can get really obnoxious. There's so much neon coloured TRIBBLE flying around it feels like the ending of 2001: Space Odyssey rather than First Contact. :P

On a whim I decided to do Assimilation again, the final fight with the Undine Boss had so many abilities with big flashy effects, I couldn't even see the dang thing.... For gods sake, tone down the glowy things!

FunFact: Blonde characters+space monocle+Engineering Proficiency=Over 9000!!!!!

pwebranflakes

I'm not sure if this is possible, but I've added it to my list of feedback

Cheers,

Brandon =/\=

zebular

pwebranflakes wrote: »

I'm not sure if this is possible, but I've added it to my list of feedback

Cheers,

Brandon =/\=

Shouldn't it be possible, or at least easier, to just have them not work in public spaces like what was done a long time ago with certain powers and devices? Remember, in the beginning, you could use any power and any device on ESD, yet now that has changed?

I think that would be better and more feasible than worrying about the effects themselves. I think you should just make it uniform that all combat abilities and devices would not work in "Social" public zones, like ESD, Vulcan, and DS9, among others.

darkstarkirian

Seems some peole have missed the point in the OP.

What I am looking for is the settings that need to be tweak in order for ME to not see them.
My request for an On-OFF switch for the Poppers and suppressors is soley for MY screen.
It would provide NO purden for the server if I never saw their effects, if I did, if adjusting my visual seetings changed the way everyone else could play, ie lag, than Cryptic isn't having any problems with lag, it's other players fault for having a weak rig.

pwebranflakes

zebular wrote: »

Shouldn't it be possible, or at least easier, to just have them not work in public spaces like what was done a long time ago with certain powers and devices? Remember, in the beginning, you could use any power and any device on ESD, yet now that has changed?

I think that would be better and more feasible than worrying about the effects themselves.

Party Poppers, and Fire Extinguishers to some extent, are meant to be social devices, so I don't think we'll ever turn them off completely in social zones.

Cheers,

Brandon =/\=

zebular

darkstarkirian wrote: »

Seems some peole have missed the point in the OP.

What I am looking for is the settings that need to be tweak in order for ME to not see them.
My request for an On-OFF switch for the Poppers and suppressors is soley for MY screen.
It would provide NO purden for the server if I never saw their effects, if I did, if adjusting my visual seetings changed the way everyone else could play, ie lag, than Cryptic isn't having any problems with lag, it's other players fault for having a weak rig.

The only setting of such a nature would be the one labeled Effects, on the Video tab of the options. I know in space, a setting of Low disables ship trails. Other than this setting, there is nothing else that enables or disables effects completely (that I know of).

zebular

pwebranflakes wrote: »

Party Poppers, and Fire Extinguishers to some extent, are meant to be social devices, so I don't think we'll ever turn them off completely in social zones.

Cheers,

Brandon =/\=

I can understand the Party Poppers being social but the Fire Extinguishers were a mission item and an item that directly effects game-play on missions that have extinguishable fire. Plus, this one is the one that is way over-used. I don't see how the Fire Supressors should be a social item unless we also have flame throwers that catch things fire. :eek:

darkstarkirian

pwebranflakes wrote: »

I'm not sure if this is possible, but I've added it to my list of feedback

Cheers,

Brandon =/\=

Thank you at least for putting it on the enormous pile that is the "list of Feedback".
Maybe we could see some headway with it by season 10.

palek2000

pwebranflakes wrote: »

Party Poppers, and Fire Extinguishers to some extent, are meant to be social devices, so I don't think we'll ever turn them off completely in social zones.

Cheers,

Brandon =/\=

Very well but when they are being abused for harassment, the players being harassed need to have some way to prevent it. Moving zones is not the answer, that means I am being penalized for THEIR bad behavior. Currently I use the function of politely asking them to stop, then reporting to GM's as harassment, but all I see is them continuing unabated. I understand that I will not see a response to a GM ticket but I need to see them stop or be able to stop it myself. The abusers are truly ruining my experience of the game and something needs to be changed.

daytonamax

darkstarkirian wrote: »

Maybe we could see some headway with it by season 10.

This^^ this is what will happen if ever.
People were wanting a way to turn off the poppers since the 1st Anniversary, since it ruined their emmersion.
Then the BTDs... which took a couple weeks of poeple complaing A LOT to change what what obviously a bad idea in the first place.
Of course the Fire suppressors have been around for a while, but there really is NO good reason they are "social items". They are used for a mission, to put out fires. i think you can put out Plasma fires with them also, but that just reinforces the fact they are Mission items and not social.

centersolace

pwebranflakes wrote: »

I'm not sure if this is possible, but I've added it to my list of feedback

Cheers,

Brandon =/\=

darkstarkirian wrote: »

Seems some peole have missed the point in the OP.

What I am looking for is the settings that need to be tweak in order for ME to not see them.
My request for an On-OFF switch for the Poppers and suppressors is soley for MY screen.
It would provide NO purden for the server if I never saw their effects, if I did, if adjusting my visual seetings changed the way everyone else could play, ie lag, than Cryptic isn't having any problems with lag, it's other players fault for having a weak rig.

That's what I am asking for as well. Client side mods are possible as we well know so there should be some way to turn off the more obnoxious/flashing/bothersome/seizure inducing ones. :P

Plus, those big floating symbols obscure my pretty ship.

happyhappyj0yj0y

pwebranflakes wrote: »

Party Poppers, and Fire Extinguishers to some extent, are meant to be social devices, so I don't think we'll ever turn them off completely in social zones.

Cheers,

Brandon =/\=

The problem is that they are MEANT to be social devices, their primary use has become ANTI-social devices. There are handful of fleets that are all but devoted to abusing them, and the fact that these fleets persist would tend to indicate that ramifications for abusing them are... well, non-existent.

If the offenders can't be dealt with, then the devices should be.

I'm not even one of the roleplayers these people are generally harassing and I'm even sick of the "social devices". Regardless of intent their implementation is broken and needs to be fixed, and if that fix requires their removal then so be it.

pwebranflakes

happyhappyj0yj0y wrote: »

The problem is that they are MEANT to be social devices, their primary use has become ANTI-social devices. There are handful of fleets that are all but devoted to abusing them, and the fact that these fleets persist would tend to indicate that ramifications for abusing them are... well, non-existent.

If the offenders can't be dealt with, then the devices should be.

I'm not even one of the roleplayers these people are generally harassing and I'm even sick of the "social devices". Regardless of intent their implementation is broken and needs to be fixed, and if that fix requires their removal then so be it.

I understand That's why I made the post before that one in this thread.

Also, "added to my list of feedback" does not mean its just added to some static list that goes nowhere. It's submitted often, very often actually, and is much more than just passing along a link to a thread. The "list" also includes many more threads that I don't write "added to my list of feedback" in. Also, if you go back through all the posts I've wrote that in, you'll see much has been addressed in some way or another. "Your feedback at work!"

Cheers,

Brandon =/\=

cormoran

pwebranflakes wrote: »

Party Poppers, and Fire Extinguishers to some extent, are meant to be social devices, so I don't think we'll ever turn them off completely in social zones.

Cheers,

Brandon =/\=

What bloody social events do you go to that fire extiguishers get used socially?

I've been to precisely one social event which used a fire extinguisher, and it was only used to put out the moron who decided to start a bonfire with half a tonne of offcuts, a jerry can of petrol and a bic lighter.

They're fire extinguishers, they're used to extinguish fires.

pwebranflakes

cormoran wrote: »

What bloody social events do you go to that fire extiguishers get used socially?

I've been to precisely one social event which used a fire extinguisher, and it was only used to put out the moron who decided to start a bonfire with half a tonne of offcuts, a jerry can of petrol and a bic lighter.

They're fire extinguishers, they're used to extinguish fires.

Fog machines for Club 47!

Cheers,

Brandon =/\=

hravik

And the sounds, please. I'd be happy with just the sounds honestly. I can look away from the effects, but the sounds I can't stop short of turning my sound completely off. The constant whizzes and fire extinguisher sounds grates on my nerves in short order.