"I wonder how much difference will that have on bandwidth requirements and will it be optional?" Could be worse :P
I don't think I used the slider, just scrolled my wheel instead so that doesn't bother me. I'm just happy the speed has increased, I was finding it very slow when zooming right in and scrollling when zoomed in.
What was so hard to understand?
"Oh, and the squares that were not loading before still aren't loading."
Where on the map? And at what zoom level?
A couple of shots - one of my finished tower, 'experiments with light', and then one of my beach, from the top of said tower.
And yes Peter, I'm using a texture pack that's not the default one.