I just watched the latest reverse the verse-special edition and it was kind of interesting to watch CR, Erin Roberts, Tony Zurovec, Brian Chambers, and John Erskine talking about the current and future state of the SC....to cut the chase around 20 min in they start to talk about the networking and how many players we could expect per instance in the "near"future so let me quote CR:
"So it’s really more just about the fact that there will be a limit to how many players we can simulate on one server. Right now it’s 24 in Arena Commander and it’s about 40 when you’re running around Arc Corp. Really, that’s actually 8 instances running on one server. So, if you just times it by 8 and figure it out we could have 200 players if we could scale the game linearly that way but right now we can’t because it’s not – parts of it are built for multithreading and distributing to all of the cores but some aren’t. That’s what we’re doing a lot of refactoring on, so an individual server instance could perhaps run 200 players which then is obviously a lot denser than what we have right now and you would still seamlessly go between locations. But, on top of that if you can mesh those servers together and each server is authoritative over a group of players and generally those players would be based on colocation and each server tells the other servers what it has done with the players it’s responsible for. You can sort of, on a peer-to-peer basis on the server side, you can have thousands of players being simulated all at once but each server is only doing the work for its little portion. That’s the new model, we’re not the only people that are working on this or trying to work on this. It is the new model of using the big – using the cloud to give you a lot more game experience and that’s where we’re going. At some point, you know, we may even – that may allow us to have 2,000 people in the same area or whatever but what if there was maybe 10,000? At that point we probably would still have to instance."
[video=youtube;Qyymbmis7xA]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qyymbmis7xA[/video]
20:00 min start
So Wow....Is this really going to work???Well if this work.....then we certainly can expect kind of revolution in the near future gaming...right???Or CR just talking to talk???Or maybe it is the truth that will happens in +few years...or beyond the 2020??
