[MUD-Dev] Locations vs Social Spaces (was: I Want to Forge Sw ords)

[Koster]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Richard Aihoshi aka Jonric
> Sent: Saturday, May 12, 2001 12:35 PM
> To: mud-dev at kanga.nu
> Subject: RE: [MUD-Dev] Locations vs Social Spaces (was: I 
> Want to Forge Swords)

> As a point of information, while current games may suffer
> significant performance hits when lots of players congregate, there
> are server technologies such as that developed for BigWorld with the
> intention of allowing thousands of players to gather for large
> battles, concerts et al.  Being a mere scribe, I can't tell you much
> at all about how it works, but there's some more information
> available at www.bigworldgames.com And of course, there are others
> working in the same direction.

The slowdowns on the server side caused by large congregations are
very soon to be a thing of the past (eg, no cause for teleport storms
and the like) as server architectures move away from single-server
models pasted together to make multiserver models. More difficult are
concerns like the bandwidth involved in sending you the updates for
that many people and having it still look good. What'll really be
harder is client-side scalability for the display of all those
people. ;)

-Raph
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