I have watched these threads with some amusement. I have problems with the menu (IE 6, Cable connection), but I don't really come here much anymore so it's not a huge issue for me and since it's clear R'osity doesn't care I figured why bother mentioning it. I stopped shopping in the marketplace here months ago and just when I was considering trying it again the marketplace fiasco happened. I haven't even browsed the MP since then. What I find amusing is that they changed the links because of the multitude of complaints about it not working, yet not one single person as far as I can tell has posted that the links were a problem. Compared to the number that have posted that they are a problem now. Not one person that I have seen that had a problem before the change has come forward and said yes it used to be a problem for me and now it isn't. So if the numbers of people that the old links were a problem for is so significantly larger than the number of people having problems now...where are they? Why haven't we heard from any of them either complaining before or saying how great the change is now?

P4

I know about changing the map size and zooming the cameras and all that. I have spent HOURS changing map sizes, zooming, adding/deleting etc and 9 times out of 10 I end up remembering that maybe I didn't drop something to floor and then the shadows work so this time when I actually thought of it before I'd wasted a ton of time and got the background moving up instead of down I was equally frustrated :(

I attached a screen shot of the problem I am having. Krystal is dropped to floor, as is the background.

I should also mention that I rendered before putting in the background and I had shadows (not on the ground since there was no ground plane, but did have them from her arm on her dress etc) so I know at least some shadows are working.

"The site speed fix is the most obvious improvement to me. Frankly, I am surprised that this highly NOTICEABLE change hasn't generated more comments."

I'm on cable and the site is still the slowest site I visit on the net. There has been no spped change for me, thus I have not commented on that. If they do speed it up so that it's faster for everyone then I certainly would comment on that huge improvement.

Others have expressed this well already so I won't rehash a lot. Marketing research is all well and good, but when you have a portion of your base saying this thing IS a problem that is something that you should consider instead of some general market research that was not done on YOUR specific customer base. I have not seen anyone suggest that black be the default color for the marketplace background. They have asked for the option to change their own personal settings. Personally, until recently I used the default scheme and it didn't really bother me very much, but my eyes are getting older and so I have changed to a darker background with lighter links. I had the default colors when visiting the old marketplace and never felt like I was going snowblind from visiting because while there was white space it wasn't overwhelming. I visited after the makeover to see what people were complaining about and I couldn't find the back button fast enough...it was incredibly blinding to the point that by the time I had hit the back button I was seeing spots. I would suggest that based on what I have read I'm not the only person that feels that way. No matter how badly I want an item I'm not going to go blind/risk a migraine trying to purchase it. I haven't been shopping here for some time because I don't like how some issues were handled in the past so I'm sure you won't miss my not shopping here now either. There are some items I would like and a gift I wanted to get for someone, but not enough to deal with the blinding. I will say that many concerns regarding the marketplace have been handled in a much better fashion for the most part than I expected they would be based on past experience....of course those other things weren't based on money and the MP is.

I would think that a bigger "E-Commerce" no no would be completely ignoring the complaints of a number of your customer base especially when they are asking for something they have had (custom colors)for at least 2 years (from what I can tell. I haven't been around that long). I find the fact that the PTB either ignore or pooh pooh members/customers an interesting thing to watch. I boycotted the RMP some months ago because I didn't like the way some things were being handled unevenly. I just the day before this new design rolled out found a few items I would like and had decided that I would give them a go again. I planned to pick them up and then the makeover rolled out and I have watched how they have handled the concerns expressed by both merchants and customers. Now that I have seen that they still have the same attitude toward their customer base I will once again remove the items from my wishlist and spend my money in other places. If something comes out that I desperately want I will contact the artist and find out if I can purchase it another way and if not let them know that while I would love to buy their item I won't buy from R'osity so they have lost a sale. On another note I think that not beta testing a big new rollout is probably also a big E-Commerace no-no

add me to the list that would like to see more baby animals as well.

Wow thank you. I no longer feel like I will go blind(er) trying to read the various dials.

I'm not sure I agree that it looks better. I think it looks pretty darn good on both of them and of course I'm partial to the toony stuff. I'm good either way cause I have both the toon cat and the mil cat though :)

Attached Link: http://www.renderosity.com/viewed.ez?galleryid=674432&Start=1&Sectionid=1&filter_genre_id=0&WhatsNe

I uploaded the image to my gallery (hopefully the link is clicky, but just in case here it is again).

http://www.renderosity.com/viewed.ez?galleryid=674432&Start=1&Sectionid=1&filter_genre_id=0&WhatsNew=Yes

WOO!!!

Downloading MOOSE!!!! as I type :) edit: PS: I love the Kitty as well!

Message edited on: 05/18/2004 18:28

do we have a new ETA per chance? I'm sure it will be worth the wait. Hippolicious is quite well done and fun to play around with. I'm just impatient :) (though I see I'm not the only one so I don't feel quite so badly)

bah. Well not your fault Gareee. Thanks for letting us know what is going on. Daz does a few things that don't make much sense to me. I guess they figure if people want something they will buy it no matter when they get around to releasing it (which in this case happens to be true for me, but it is not always the case). Thanks again for keeping us in the loop :)

no problem, Gareee. Not your fault. Now we will have a reason to look forward to a Monday! I should really be working on finishing moving my graphics page to it's own domain anyway...or I might just buy the Hippolicious one and play with that over the weekend instead ;)

me too! It is only like 7 in Utah though so maybe someone is working late fingers crossed. I am not completely giving up until we hear from Gareee on it.