I think the issue here is that you are confusing me with a white knight.
FDev are you ever going to fix the instanceing issues?
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I think the issue here is that you are confusing me with a white knight.
I couldn't care less about the colour of your armour, however suggesting that P2P is anything but a poor man's multi player annoys me.
Well I'm sorry you feel that way, but any solution would be a compromise, there is no ideal solution. Even if we take an extreme view that client/server would be superior in every meaningful way is would still be much, much more expensive to implement and that might make the difference between a game being viable & not. Plenty of online games are no longer playable at all because the servers were switched off. I don't like cheating either and I include not just CLogging but stuff like instance flipping at Dav's Hope too, a client/server model would allow better control over that exploit too.
But ultimately I like that I can continue to play more game.
If Frontier takes the server offline E: D will be just as gone as the other games you mentioned.
Yes and if the server infrastructure is cheaper that event will hopefully be further away
This is my point......this was the 3rd time in a row.
Most other MMOs don't need low latency as that is easy to hide. In ED it is far more difficult to hide due to the nature of the game hence why P2P is better as it leaves out the middle man (central server). But you are beholden to others internet connections which can cause issues.
Unless you want to have combat like EVE online that is, then a client server system will be fine. Personally I don't.
As someone who likes to play a healer I can tell you that lag in MMO's can quickly become an issue during difficult fights. Also given how E: D can only handle a limited number of players per instance I very much doubt it would perform any worse than say Planetside 2 if it were to switch to a client-server architecture.
May be they will do something about now, when they moved away closet update with some content for us.
I really hope they would do, cos well... September patch was spectacular -show.
However, people makes the right point that most problems are due to P2P system, and I an't sure that it is the worst choice...
As someone said above, all choses have those own compromises...
I really hope they would do, cos well... September patch was spectacular -show.
However, people makes the right point that most problems are due to P2P system, and I an't sure that it is the worst choice...
As someone said above, all choses have those own compromises...
Of course it does. There is always lag., But with a traditional MMO when the combat is only updated once or twice a second compared to ED when it's updated 20 or 30 times a second, that lag will become a much bigger issue with ED.
If you think it's bad in traditional MMOs it make ED unplayable.
Planet side 2 is very good at hiding other players. It will only track players that are in your view which won't be many. Also planet side 2 I believe has seperate geographic servers to reduce the lag.
ED would also need to do the same which would splinter the player base even more. Probably completely seperate BGSs as well for each area etc.
While P2P is not perfect, neither is a server client system. Both have pros and cons.
But I think P2P will be the future when everyone has ultra fast quantum teleporting networks with quantum CPUs in our machines, but that will be sometime in the future.