I believe you are thinking purely in terms of ship layout or a map.
Looks to me CIG has less than 100 proper developers. Elite wins, SC preorder cancelled!
Only newbs use DC: but if it's built-in does that mean everyone is a newb? I see a ganker extensional crisis incoming
Dwarf Fortress has 100% developers and 0% designers
I thought YouTubers were just money-chasing shills who sell themselves like prositutes for glass bowls? At least thats what i got from that other car-crash thread on DD
Looks to me CIG has less than 100 proper developers. Elite wins, SC preorder cancelled!
Only newbs use DC: but if it's built-in does that mean everyone is a newb? I see a ganker extensional crisis incoming
re: server meshing, how about this analogy: players are marbles (figuratively i mean) and in Elite each instance is a jar, and each server may have multiple jars (have FDev ever said how may instances per server? or is one server one instance?). You put marbles into the jar, and once the jar is full you spin up another jar. It doesnt matter if the jars are all in Sol payers just go into a jar, and move between jars is swapping instances (if capacity, otherwise you dont instance with wing mate and end up in your own jar). You swap jars when you jump to another star, or transition to a planet.
In SC meshing theres one jar per instance (ie: US, EU, AUS) and when the jar is full of marbles you spin up another jar, however the jar is just added to the existing jar, so you now have a bigger jar for more marbles. Load could be handled by pushing or splitting jars by proximity - so you may have a 6xjar at Orison with 280 marbles, but a 1xjar at Everus if just 4 marbles. If 50 marbles jump into a ship and fly to Everus, you spin up a ship jar decrease the Orison jar (and when they arrive) add the ship jar to the Everus jar.
Is that about right? Trying to interpret it all.
Dual Universe have done the continuous shard thing, they resize the servers as required, as more players gather closer together the size of the area serviced by a server becomes smaller, but it's all one instance and players can see others and their ships/structures far away if they are large enough.
I think the level of detail in my probably utterly inaccurate explanation above is as much clue as CIG have about how to actually do it for themselves
That doesn’t make much sense. If your server in your quarter of the ship has zero information about me in a different quarter of the same ship then we can not be in a “single instance” at all. Moving from one quarter to another requires deprecating data and loading a complete new set, I.e a change of server and instance. Put in another way, if you think that completely separate data and information in different quarters of the ship being handled by different servers is a “single instance” then me flying over Jupiter rings in super cruise while you do a settlement mission on Europa in Elite is also a “single instance”. The only difference with your ship quarters is the scale of the map.
In my Elite example all I would need to know about you is your location, shields and life/hull points maybe. It works. So in that example Elite would also be a single instance according to your view.
