My nvidia gt260 max temp is 105 C. And that's common apparently, so what's the issue ?

none apparently, except that rendering my CQ apparently takes more juice than everything on grid at dodixie and that's with a 660ti.

Your card is rated at 97 C max. Again, why the concern ?

http://www.geforce.com/hardware/desktop-gpus/geforce-gtx-660ti/specifications

I'm less concerned about my video card as I am about the future of WiS if rendering one room and character causes my card to behave like I just launched BF3.

I think the folks who hated Incarna WIS were just trying to stir up drama with "hot video cards", which may be true but most of the time with a descent card means absolutely nothing. The fan kicking on is just a sign that it is doing its job.

What was all the money spent for with an expensive card if it's not even pushed to half it's limit ?

Well, no; the performance problem was real at the Incarna release.

Not only overheatting, in general CQ rendering was a severe load for the client. And the code was bugged as well. I think this made impossible to release a multiuser avatar envinronment without allocating enough resources for several months after Incarna. And CCP resources were (as still are) absorbed by Dust.

So, not being able to deliver a multiuser setting any further impementation lost sense.

But anyway in all the expansions after Incarna (till retribution) they kept reiterating on CQ fixing rendering bugs and optizzing the code. Now seems pretty polished and stable to me. On my nvidia gt250 I have no problem in running 2 clients with CQ at max graphic settings and even after almost 2 years still the best avatar engine on the market.

I think the elements for a limited (5-10 avatar) multiusers envinroments are all already in, they only need to be rearranged and provided with a UI.

make a conference room so that us elite corp and alliance leaders can sit around a big space table while our leader talks to us via holovid screen and we all talk in faux-british accents about alliance affairs

Well, no; the performance problem was real at the Incarna release.

Not only overheatting, in general CQ rendering was a severe load for the client. And the code was bugged as well. I think this made impossible to release a multiuser avatar envinronment without allocating enough resources for several months after Incarna. And CCP resources were (as still are) absorbed by Dust.

So, not being able to deliver a multiuser setting any further impementation lost sense.

But anyway in all the expansions after Incarna (till retribution) they kept reiterating on CQ fixing rendering bugs and optizzing the code. Now seems pretty polished and stable to me. On my nvidia gt250 I have no problem in running 2 clients with CQ at max graphic settings and even after almost 2 years still the best avatar engine on the market.

I think the elements for a limited (5-10 avatar) multiusers envinroments are all already in, they only need to be rearranged and provided with a UI.

Ive been wondering about those old assets. I remember watching a sisi update pre-incarna and seeing files with names like "Establishments...". Something was made. But its been 2 years. Many other changes have been made to the client, how it does things, the data structures and so on. Has that 2 year old code gone stale? How much work would it be to get it into the game?

I still think some sort of multi-avatar area is needed without game play first, just to insure it works on everyone's hardware. I would not want a broken new feature released for something that mattered. If done CCP would need to call it what it is: A stress test. Why not do it just on Sisi? Because not enough people visit sisi to give it a full test.

yes. A multiavatar envinroment is a base requirement for any kind gameplay and integrations you want to develop. And it's also the more easy to deliver cause I think actually is already developed, only need to be rearranged.

Prototypes of this were released already in 2006-2007 and later.
Like this:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5l_ZjVyRxx4

or this:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LzZRRPPw_QE

incarna was a mere retexture of this :)

-We should have communal places in station where we can all sit around and make catcalls and wolfwhistles at all the female toons, who of course more than likely are 40 year old men.
-Also need dark places in station for us users of illegal substances to expand our minds.
-NPC prostitutes...ones that you can beat up and get your money back...we need those too.
-In the center of every station should be a pit with saws and jagged stuff at the bottom, so you are forced to jump in to biomass.
-A window in one of communal places that allows you to see outside station at all the undock campers..that would be cool too, but im sure would be horribly hilariously abused.