Problem is, we've heard this before, many times.
Without (tech) the game can't be done. Once (tech) is done things will get much better.
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Problem is, we've heard this before, many times.
Without (tech) the game can't be done. Once (tech) is done things will get much better.
I'll also steal a quote from SA, this one from Sarsa
Don't know.
They need icache working ingame to add server meshing and CIG is just at the beginning of adding it to the alpha (I was wrongly thinking last year that CIG had started to add it).
Icache is needed because that's the service that will serve all entities to the server (for what I've understood).
So before even asking if server meshing will work or not, we have to ask if icache will work or not.
So what does your head tell you?
Edit: When did we first hear about this stuff?
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Nothing, I wait to see how it will work in the alpha. I'm a developper, I just wait the final result. I don't see bugs in alpha as proof of incomptence from a team.
Okay, but perpetual 'alpha' isn't ringing any alarm bells at all?
CR teaches the faithful not to think. Instead to recite the holy litany while the plate is passed round.
I must not FUD.
FUD is the mind-killer.
FUD is the little-death that brings total obliteration.
I will face my FUD.
I will permit it to pass over me and through me.
And when it has gone past I will turn the inner eye to see its path.
Where the FUD has gone there will be nothing. Only Star Citizen will remain
I must not FUD.
FUD is the mind-killer.
FUD is the little-death that brings total obliteration.
I will face my FUD.
I will permit it to pass over me and through me.
And when it has gone past I will turn the inner eye to see its path.
Where the FUD has gone there will be nothing. Only Star Citizen will remain
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Server meshing was supposed to be in by 2018. And 2019.
They then reduced that to just the minor stepping stone of iCache coming mid 2020. Now coming Q2 2021...
Without server meshing they are massively blocked. No extra systems, no giant player ships, massive caps on content, and a queue of game mechanics which can't even be prototyped.
Most people, developer or not, can see that this is project management incompetence. To be 8 years after kickstarter, 10 years after initial prototyping, completely unable to proceed in any meaningful way. They face further years of only being able to produce assets and basic functions. A production phase that has to stretch into the 1.5 decade span, even if things go well, to vaguely hit its targets. A time span which is littered with the corpses of flawed and failed projects. And that's the positive scenario, where the miracle tech of server meshing actually comes to pass.
Most people can also see that pre-selling giant $2k ships, and other promises of seamless gaming exceptionalism, prior to server meshing enabling those things is a deeply dubious practice.
Maybe one day you'll notice this too
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...Kenobi's next words were lost to posterity as having removed his helmet, he lost his chat bar.
...Kenobi's next words were lost to posterity as having removed his helmet, he lost his chat bar.
Determined to make the best use of his final moments - Citizen Commando Konobi remembered his ASL emotes.
Sadly the only other thing around to observe him were the lifeless beady eyes of his Pico plushie.
CR doesn't teach them anything...they do that all by themselves
You know, normal game developers develop those types of systems first, before they waste hundreds of millions of dollars developing art assets that will inevitably need to be redone time and time again, as the core game systems are completed. Especially games that have are using a "playable now" development strategy.
If I understood correctly, it's the final service that get and push all datas (universe/entities/ships/players and their related datas) from/to the databases to the client. It's a mix of direct access and cache data service.
It's perhaps a more important tech than server meshing.
CIG has moved on to removing stuff from the game.
So for ten points, what do you think their absolute no #1 priority should be, the one that literally every scrap of money they have should have been spent on for at least the last two years of development ahead of any and all other things, since it's such a vital aspect of the entire underpinning architecture upon which the entire game (funded entirely by its backers) will be constructed?
a) virtual soft toys
b) pointless events
c) pictures of 'future content' designed to excite the marketing department
d) handbags
e) buy an Idris!
Now it could be that I just don't understand software development, I am after all just one of those daft mugs who actually buys computer games, but I have another answer to that question which is omitted from the above list. I wonder if you can guess what it could be? I'll give you a clue - it would have involved hiring about three studios fewer of graphic artists and designers and maybe a few more people who can code instead.
Of course that's not sexy though. Not when you have a website to make and tv shows to make. Who wants to see boring blokes with beards making pages full of text and numbers and stuff!
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It is the same "fake it until you make it" strategy used somewhat successfully by Thomas Edison, and less so by Elizabeth Holmes of Theranos ill repute.
" Carreyrou, who is interviewed in the film, makes the point that Holmes was part of that same “fake it till you make it” ethos, which has become a part of Silicon Valley folklore. It’s a story I have been told so many times by so many founders. In most cases, the faking was required to buy time to finesse a product. Other times, it was in order to raise money or to get a company sold to a large buyer. "
All ships are awaiting yet another refactor since CR wants pipes carrying air throughout them.
I bet the artists and modellers just love CR!
More important than the thing that is allegedly required for the game to have more than 1 system and to be able to handle more players stably even for 1 system?
Interesting.