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

[Daniel.Harman at barclayscapital.com]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Adam Martin [mailto:amsm2 at cam.ac.uk]
> Sent: 16 May 2001 11:51
> To: mud-dev at kanga.nu
> Subject: Re: [MUD-Dev] Locations vs Social Spaces (was: I 
> Want to Forge
> Sw ords)

> AC's servers are distributed load-balancing by default - the design
> lead implied in a recent Gamasutra article that they could handle
> everyone standing together, because the world would get rebalanced
> so that the one small area got split between all the servers
> dynamically. With each server stress-tested to guarantee a quoted
> lower limit of 3,000 simultaneous players on that server alone, I
> don't think they're expecting problems any time soon.
 
> Not that load-balancing is itself particularly innovative, but I
> hadn't realised that anyone was already using it aggressively among
> the major MMORPGs at the moment.

Whilst AC may claim to be able to do this, it tends to portal storm
with about 40 players just near each other if I recall correctly. A
portal storm is where players are randomly teleported away from the
congregation...

EQ, can now just about manage 70 people attacking one monster (with
what appears to be graphical lag more than data lag - hard to tell
though). It doesn't do anything clever, but it leads me to assume that
even with a better 3d engine, you probably couldn't achieve much more
easily. Especially if you have upgraded character models to go along
with it.

Dan
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