Content Suggestion Option to disable posters/decals

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Caboose.

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What does this suggestion change/add/remove:
Adds a option inside of the !fps menu to disable poster/decals in-game. This is due to the enormous amount of posters being displayed inside the site (on the USA server) and a option to disable these would help clean up the users experience if they wish.
This is a singular picture of the amount of posters in PW (there is more..) This only shows five decals on the wall, just in this one area:
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Has something similar been suggested before? If so, why is your suggestion different?:
I've tried searching terms that relate to this and I have not found any.

Possible Positives of the suggestion (At least 2):
  • Allows for a better user experience
  • Not having to see tons of decals everywhere.
  • Potentially a slight increase in performance for certain players.
  • Players have more customization on how they would like to experience the server.

Possible Negatives of the suggestion:
  • Dev Time

Based on the Positives & Negatives, why should this suggestion be accepted:
I believe this suggestion should be accepted based on the Positives and Negatives. This feature would allow for users to have a better experience on the server, rather then having to see tons of posters all around the site, that quite frankly, don't look amazing. And this would only gives players more customization on how they would like to experience the server.
 
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I feel like this is just going to cause problems with people pointing to signage or whatever that other people simply can't see. I'm also not sure that this would make any difference to FPS.

-Support because it's going to cause confusion and not actually be helpful. It would be more helpful if your server's SA/SL stepped in to reduce the number of decals if it's actually a problem like this. On UK, there's plenty all around, but they're not all crammed in together into every little space like it looks like USA has from this image.
 
Caboose. said:
What does this suggestion change/add/remove:
Adds a option inside of the !fps menu to disable poster/decals in-game. This is due to the enormous amount of posters being displayed inside the site (on the USA server) and a option to disable these would help clean up the users experience if they wish.
This is a singular picture of the amount of posters in PW (there is more..) This only shows five decals on the wall, just in this one area:
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Has something similar been suggested before? If so, why is your suggestion different?:
I've tried searching terms that relate to this and I have not found any.

Possible Positives of the suggestion (At least 2):
  • Allows for a better user experience
  • Not having to see tons of decals everywhere.
  • Potentially a slight increase in performance for certain players.
  • Players have more customization on how they would like to experience the server.

Possible Negatives of the suggestion:
  • Dev Time

Based on the Positives & Negatives, why should this suggestion be accepted:
I believe this suggestion should be accepted based on the Positives and Negatives. This feature would allow for users to have a better experience on the server, rather then having to see tons of posters all around the site, that quite frankly, don't look amazing. And this would only gives players more customization on how they would like to experience the server.
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Bro play on the UK server and tell me the US server is bad lol. I personally love it, it makes for a more lived in space instead of a dead and boring world filled with nothing in it. I personally do not like the idea that you are giving.
 
Zen said:
I feel like this is just going to cause problems with people pointing to signage or whatever that other people simply can't see. I'm also not sure that this would make any difference to FPS.
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You can disable PAC and people constantly point that out in roleplay. I don't see how allowing a option like this would be any different. This is not only for optimization, but just general de clutter for people who would prefer not to see them.
Checkedsauce7 said:
Bro play on the UK server and tell me the US server is bad lol. I personally love it, it makes for a more lived in space instead of a dead and boring world filled with nothing in it. I personally do not like the idea that you are giving.
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I know, the posters are not bad necessarily but they are getting out of hand and there is far too many that it's just ugly.
 
Caboose. said:
You can disable PAC and people constantly point that out in roleplay. I don't see how allowing a option like this would be any different. This is not only for optimization, but just general de clutter for people who would prefer not to see them.

I know, the posters are not bad necessarily but they are getting out of hand and there is far too many that it's just ugly.
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And if disabling PAC3 didn't give a notable performance increase, I'd be against it being something you can disable for the same reason. I'm 90% sure that removing decals clientside would make any difference to performance, given we already know that temporary decals like blood splatter don't.
 
In my experience of playing up until the recent few additions on US the UK has much more distracting posters because they're bright and the art style doesn't actually fit with the universe. I'm all for fanart but realistically we wouldn't be putting hand drawn posters on the walls in government facilities and the UK has 3? I believe just within medbay and the surrounding areas.

Whereas the US has a lot more bloat posters but they're less distracting as they tend to fit the setting better
Claire! said:
US*

UK has posters, but not that much. Would be neat, but if it's hard for the dev team, then meh

Neutral
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Rosalyn 'Vrda' said:
In my experience of playing up until the recent few additions on US the UK has much more distracting posters because they're bright and the art style doesn't actually fit with the universe. I'm all for fanart but realistically we wouldn't be putting hand drawn posters on the walls in government facilities and the UK has 3? I believe just within medbay and the surrounding areas.

Whereas the US has a lot more bloat posters but they're less distracting as they tend to fit the setting better
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UK is fine. From the screenshot in the original post, USA looks to have a bunch of random shit packed as densely as possible, including charts that look like they were made in like 2007 and just in-game screenshots. UK has actual posters and whatever, and they aren't in every random available bit of space
 
Charles Ze Whitmee said:
Would make utterly no difference.
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Completely untrue for the US server. I encourage you to actually play the US server and see how many posters there are around site and shear clutter of them. I'm sure the UK has posters, but the US has far too many.
Charles Ze Whitmee said:
US staff should assist in tidying it up, as all pictures I see of the US are a poster nightmare.
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This could work, yet deciding what posters would need to be cleaned up is difficult and could be bias.
Charles Ze Whitmee said:
Decals are used for all sorts of things on the server, PAC is reasonable to disable, decals are not.
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This suggestion does not allow for the disabling of ALL decals, only the posters. I'm just not aware of the tool name that administrators use for this.
 
Zen said:
UK is fine. From the screenshot in the original post, USA looks to have a bunch of random shit packed as densely as possible, including charts that look like they were made in like 2007 and just in-game screenshots. UK has actual posters and whatever, and they aren't in every random available bit of space
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I disagree that the UK is completely fine, I'm in medbay right now and from the door to the ECT room I can see 5 posters, one of which I would deem realistic to have in medbay, maybe two. There's then another four in the entrance to medbay, I would say it's an issue overall across sites but I think maybe staff should take into account the immersion and realism before just putting anything up.

Adding an option to disable it would mean people have the option there if they want to turn it off like everything else on that menu. I would argue disabling pac has a much bigger impact on gameplay but thats still an option frequently used by people including myself
 
I have no clue concerning the UK part I never play on it but on the US now there's a poster advertising for a lawyer, I get that every branch wants a poster but I heavily agree that its getting out of hand. If not for the FPS which I can't say it would or wouldn't change anything, it would be a nice quality of life change to be able to disable the posters.

+ Support​

 
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