In-game sync distance adjustment
Good Afternoon -
Recently, it has come to the attention of myself and many of the other avid engineers among the circle of folks I build with that the server sync distance (controlling the distance at which clients can see other ships) has been forced to a value in 3-kilometer range. While initially we assumed this was an unintentional bug that was going to be corrected rather quickly, quite some time has passed since this change and now that we have been made aware that this was an intentional change on the part of the dev team, we have begun looking for ways around this issue.
Given that we host locally and do not have dedicated servers, it would be rather convenient to be able to adjust the server sync distance in-game - perhaps a slider that sits next to the view distance slider in the server creation screen, or perhaps re-integrating this value into the view distance slider again so that hosts can more easily adjust this value.
As hosts, this was a rather significant chance. With how important this value is (for everything from exploration to battle), easily being able to adjust it to values more in-line with our local play-styles, so that clients are not plagued by the rather paltry sync distance, will be very beneficial.
~ Schwieger
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Hello, it is possible to change sync distance only in DS settings.
Hello, it is possible to change sync distance only in DS settings.
maybe 'sync distance' can be ignored for client hosted games, default to 'view distance', like it used to be?
i mean what is the point of view distance now?
maybe 'sync distance' can be ignored for client hosted games, default to 'view distance', like it used to be?
i mean what is the point of view distance now?
Petr,
Thank you for the reply. We are aware that the sync distance can be changed only in DS settings. Many people do not run dedicated servers, and for them it is impossible to change this value if they need it changed. It would be very helpful if it were possible to adjust this value in-game. This was possible in the past and very useful for adjusting and fine-tuning server settings for people without dedicated servers.
Additionally, as Nikolas March has pointed out, there is now little point to the current view distance slider as it doesn't adjust the view distance for other people on your server. The current system seems more fit for single-player with how it is implemented; it is somewhat misleading to have a slider for view distance on a server setup menu that is useful only for hosts and not the connected clients.
Thank you,
~Schwieger
Petr,
Thank you for the reply. We are aware that the sync distance can be changed only in DS settings. Many people do not run dedicated servers, and for them it is impossible to change this value if they need it changed. It would be very helpful if it were possible to adjust this value in-game. This was possible in the past and very useful for adjusting and fine-tuning server settings for people without dedicated servers.
Additionally, as Nikolas March has pointed out, there is now little point to the current view distance slider as it doesn't adjust the view distance for other people on your server. The current system seems more fit for single-player with how it is implemented; it is somewhat misleading to have a slider for view distance on a server setup menu that is useful only for hosts and not the connected clients.
Thank you,
~Schwieger
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