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I'm gonna guess that you've never played it?
It is stuff like this that i stopped playing.
Exploit: Non-Consensual Boarding
Effective immediately as the deployment of the docking update is pending, the boarding of other players' constructs without consent will be considered an exploit. Offenders will be teleported away; repeat offenders may be subject to more serious repercussions. If you are boarded by another player...
It's quite different in DU as they are using something called "dynamic tessellation" of 3d interaction space between players. The cloud nodes are dynamically allocated to people actually interacting closely with each other, while people you can just "see" are on other nodes (as latency is not as critical). This all relied on at least two fundamental aspects: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
Acknowledgements of performance issues by Novaquark themselves in their devblogs, direct player´s feedback in forums, some press articles etc. The performance issues seem to be especially serious the more players and constructs congregate in a given area, which was precisely one of the main selling points of DU.
Pretty much what I heard. Add the payment for access model and paying quid repeatedly for bad performance might be quite a deterrent - even for those who tried and are willing to come back for a new try.
Performance issues are very much not solved.
Bollox, we told them the last PTU build wasn't ready for live...since that's assumed to be part of the testing process. We give feedback and they supposedly listen. They launched once again on a Friday leaving a very broken patch running and continually getting worse with increasing adjudication and authentication server errors over a weekend with absolutely no maintenance.
All in all it's a pie update.
Some like me enjoy the drama of SC too- its like Radio Five LiveBollox, we told them the last PTU build wasn't ready for live...since that's assumed to be part of the testing process. We give feedback and they supposedly listen. They launched once again on a Friday leaving a very broken patch running and continually getting worse with increasing adjudication and authentication server errors over a weekend with absolutely no maintenance.
As of now...10:28am on Tuesday, there hasn't even been an acknowledgement from Ci¬G regarding the now entirely unplayable state of the live build and still no hotfix either server side (where the problems lie entirely) or via a client patch for the many other minor bugs...
All the game breaking issues are server side, absolutely none of them are new or specific to 3.14...In addition to the unwelcome return of persistent server 30k's... at times every 10 minutes, the unclaimable ship bug, the broken mobiglas, inventory system and ship/equipment managers have been so prevalent over the last few years they have recurring birthdays...these are all server errors, not client.
3.14 was in PTU for weeks, it wasn't ready to go live...they still released it. Go sell that utter "They need time to fix it." shyte on the SC subreddit. Ci¬G had every opportunity to extend the PTU until it was in a fit and more stable state server wise before committing to push the button on it.
Some of us play the game here...not just talk about it.
All in just 1 instance.
I do play it, and yes, we all knew it wasn't ready, they just wanted to get it out in Q2 (or what they can pretend is Q2) It was by no means ready, but given how games are these days being ready doesn't seem to be considered a prerequisite for launching a product anymore.Bollox, we told them the last PTU build wasn't ready for live...since that's assumed to be part of the testing process. We give feedback and they supposedly listen. They launched once again on a Friday leaving a very broken patch running and continually getting worse with increasing adjudication and authentication server errors over a weekend with absolutely no maintenance.
As of now...10:28am on Tuesday, there hasn't even been an acknowledgement from Ci¬G regarding the now entirely unplayable state of the live build and still no hotfix either server side (where the problems lie entirely) or via a client patch for the many other minor bugs...
All the game breaking issues are server side, absolutely none of them are new or specific to 3.14...In addition to the unwelcome return of persistent server 30k's... at times every 10 minutes, the unclaimable ship bug, the broken mobiglas, inventory system and ship/equipment managers have been so prevalent over the last few years they have recurring birthdays...these are all server errors, not client.
3.14 was in PTU for weeks whilst they analysed client data and server metrics. We knew it wasn't ready to go live, so did Ci¬G...they still released it. Go sell that utter "They need time to fix it." shyte on the SC subreddit. Ci¬G had every opportunity to extend the PTU until it was in a fit and more stable state server wise before committing to push the button on it.
Some of us play the game here...not just talk about it.
So what is the point that you are making, exactly?
