At this point, the Blue Mars beta client is very limited when it comes to customization. For the life of me, I could not find a screen to customize the graphic settings any further than this:

Rendering Quality is too general. And general is simpler, and simple is user-friendly, but there are better ways of implementing it. Take Second Life, for example, with its (customizable) presets of graphic settings.
My hardware is old and my wallet is empty (thank you, ex-fiancée!), and I bet I’m not the only one with those two issues, so perhaps it would be a good idea for the Blue Mars devs to consider increasing the level of customization in this regard. Read the rest of this entry »
