will elite dangerous ever become open source?

Bottom Hat

Bottom Hat
Dillon Fallon said:
Well, I only said powerplay, so I did try to keep it pre-watershed. Although I do expect the reality of what would happen if he got control would make Cthulu blush.
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Talking about the spaghetti code though, he'd have bits of you on kebab spikes, minced and cooked into meatballs before you could say "stop stabbing me with the skewers" I imagine.
Should we ask @Rubbernuke for his expert cookery opinion on how he'd obtain meat in a Tron universe? He's bound to make it more horrific mate!
 

GJ51

GJ51
Hmmmm

Coulda swore Braben said that's what would happen once they were done with it sometime after the intended 10 yrs...

I've got enough server power to host it.
 

GJ51

GJ51
Frillop Freyraum said:
Sorry, but I highly doubt that. If you want to realise this with a single server, you should rather think of a large server farm. The game is programmed to use dynamic Amazon servers and you should be prepared to rewrite parts of the netcode that have to do with that. Can you do that?
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You have no idea...
 

GJ51

GJ51
Frillop Freyraum said:
just a little bit stuck-up, don't you think?
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No - I just have a rack worth about 200k with 1TB DDR4 ram and about a half a petabyte of storage with 2 compute boxes that have quad zeon 24 core cpu's and 2 fiber optic lines waiting to be updated to 2gb svc as soon as Verizon rolls it out.

But if you don't think that's enough I'll double check with my partner who is an AWS certified Sr. SDE.

Any other questions?
 

GJ51

GJ51
Frillop Freyraum said:
Impressive, and yet you have no idea what code changes are required to make this work with a localised server, nor do I think the result will be even remotely what you hope for. You might even manage to redesign ED to work like a classic peer-to-peer game with a player count of less than hundred per session. But never anything that could even halfway be called an MMO (although it's fair to wonder if ED ever was or will be one). By the way, who actually pays your electricity bill?

Anyway, good luck with that. If this situation ever becomes a reality, I will remember your bold statement.
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The electric bill is an issue :)

I would likely start out with a donation model to help offset some costs, but demand would dictate if I would need to impose a fee to dampen the load if it was there. I'm not on the scale of AWS, but I doubt the server load of a few hundred or even a few thousand users is as bad as you seem to think. Remember the basic platform was rolled out in 2014 when much of the hardware I have wasn't even available or was state of the art circa 2015.

The unit also buffers storage on a 24/1.6TB SAS III SAN all connected via 40gb/s fiber optic cable. My suspicion is that the 2 - 4 gb/s fiber optic ONT to Verizon might be the bottleneck.
 

GJ51

GJ51
Hmmmm

No one else remembers Braben saying he expected that he would release it to public domain after 10yrs???

Oh well - too bad.
 

LumpTheNoLeggedDog

LumpTheNoLeggedDog
I thought certain group already have the source code. Isn't that why all space anomalys and phenomenas were discovered so fast without need for much of exploration ?
 

GJ51

GJ51
Frillop Freyraum said:
I don't think you realise what the real problem is: ED is a Twitch-based game with thousands of players all over the world. You can't just realise that from one location, you either need localised national servers (plural!) or you have to limit yourself to a local solution. So what exactly do you have in mind?

However, I only know of one game that pulls this up with one local workstation, and that's EVE, but that's a point-and-click game. Just give me one example of a Twitch-based MMO hosted on a single server and I'll shut up. At most, there would be Vendetta, but the player count here is rather modest here in comparison and my experience with it, much like Jumpgate back in the day, was it too. Oversea connections will be the real bottleneck for you. That's the advantage of amazon servers and the pseudo MMO attempt of ED that preferably tries to establish local connections quite similar to the classic peer-to-peer model, just automatised.
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I don't intend to become a world-wide distributor - just host it on my servers and limit membership to manageable levels.

Won't really care if it doesn't work in Antarctica
 

[Diplomacy] Carnegie

[Diplomacy] Carnegie
GJ51 said:
Coulda swore Braben said that's what would happen once they were done with it sometime after the intended 10 yrs...
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Was that the same interview where he talked about 'ship boarding' and 'big game hunting'? Because 'David Braben said 10 years ago that...' is starting to wear a little thin as an argument that something is actually gonna happen.
 

amigacooke

amigacooke
[Diplomacy] Carnegie said:
Was that the same interview where he talked about 'ship boarding' and 'big game hunting'? Because 'David Braben said 10 years ago that...' is starting to wear a little thin as an argument that something is actually gonna happen.
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This falls into the should happen because Frontier trailed it rather than the necessarily will happen.
 

amigacooke

amigacooke
Cmdr Esteban said:
This is a silly question.

And perfectly suited to this forum. Pray continue.
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A silly question deserves a silly answer.

'If it were ever to happen, we would be able to release an archived version of the game, including the servers, but of course this would not evolve any further'.

www.eurogamer.net

David Braben responds to outcry over Elite: Dangerous' ditched offline mode

Frontier has responded to the outcry over its decision to ditch Elite: Dangerous' promised offline mode.
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optiplex

optiplex
Omg no no no, if you think we have enough Hotel California threads now imagine what it would be like with to many cooks in the kitchen demanding there ideas are added
 
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