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Apr 23, 2001, 3:55pm

[View Quote] It took me about 50 of your messages till I understood what you want. With whining and repeating endlessly your "dream" won't help.
Here are the causes why AW wouldn't make that feature in the near (or far) future:
- To change the backdrop with a button click - easy. BUT! That change will follow the person to areas where your ugly stuff doesn't fit. How the hell the browser will figure out WHEN to change it back? Imposing some artificial radius won't do good (you want the backdrop for 100 meters while the others want it 30 only). Adding those parameters would put another load to the server/browser.
- What happens if the person's disk cache is nearly full (reached the limit) ? Will the old backdrop loaded again? That would be insane. The size of the backdrop is prohibitive to load more than once.
- The ability to change it / enable the change would add some to the traffic too. (Not to mention that the world servers should have to keep track if this feature is enabled or not)

- last but not least - your silly "financial" proposal would make the option adding even more load to the auth server (the only place you can store that info). All those stuff should follow you to the world you are increasing the traffic again.

I hope I put some light behind the denial,
Andras

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