Kakarot posted:

fuctifino posted:

Please archive the twitch stream of Lando coming up on his 'meds' whilst having a rain-man moment showing everything around him.

He has herpes. He bleeds.

Date him.

Io_ posted:

Next revision of the Vanduul to resemble eldritch horrors from the deep.

Risc1911 posted:

Effort Post incoming...

Just recently Chris Roberts said they are "re-factoring" the server and client net-code. At this point CIG does not have a network solution and will most likely not have one in the near future. What they have is the standard CryEngine network stack and server slightly modified (read hacked) to support a few more players.

We also heard they are sending Megabytes of data to the clients which in turn means they have not even started to optimize the serialization of their objects which is frightening to say the least.

Since they have not even started with persistence they do not have any infrastructure or server code for that either. The only thing they have is an account database for the web users which might be re-usable for the login server but most certainly not for the MMO account server.

People think making a MMO is hard because of all the content and the size. That is unfortunately not true. You can throw a ton of artists and level designers at a project without running into much of a problem, given your workflow and management is competent. They will create your art and content effortlessly when directed by professionals. Content creation scales really well in that regard.

Programming does not scale well at all even with stellar management. Especially not specialized tasks like networking or engine optimization. You can't throw 20 programmers at it, it will only slow things down. These are 1-3 man team efforts by highly qualified developers. Every code monkey can write you a quick sort but can they write you a quick sort in ASM that uses only 64 kilobytes and sorts through gigabytes of data in seconds? You get the idea.

The hardest part for CIG will be to get a stable and fast network architecture up and running. Typical MMO network architecture is extremely complex.

1. Web facing Firewall and Proxy(s)
2. Load balancing servers that spread the traffic to available login servers.
3. Login and account servers with Account Database and Backup Account Database servers.
4. Dispatch servers that hand off clients to the area server manager depending on where the players are.
5. Area Server Manager that dispatches the clients to instances.
6. World, NPC and Item Database plus Backups.

That is just a broad overview and all of these have to be developed and optimized to work flawlessly together under high load. They need to be written from scratch since every game is different. You can of cause buy a solution but it will limit you in the long run.

This is as much of a Hardware as it is a Software challenge. Physically setting up those Servers is critical to the overall success. Using cloud solutions is doomed to be a failure unless you are making a simple browser game or similar simple software. You want hundreds of clients at the same time, you better get your hands dirty and set-up those servers in your own network centre.

I have worked as a C++ Tech optimizing source code for network servers, game engines and financial software and i can tell you that i don't see CIG as a company that will be able to deliver anything remotely stable and playable in terms of network performance. Given time, they might tackle it, we are talking 3-4 years here with multiple failed attempts and serious scaling back of the initial promises.

I think they will be out of money and belly up long before we even get to the whole network infrastructure problems.

Kakarot posted:

Beet Wagon posted:

"Breaking News - Goon murdered by someone who totally 110% is a different guy than the Goon next in line to own awesome dog..."

Tijuana Bibliophile posted:

Look man, you and your wife are part of a select and elite group of posters that nobody wants around. You add nothing by coming here and throwing your obviously massive lack of dick around and trying to defend your imagined e-honor or whatever. Please go away for a bit and come back if and when you get better at this

Happy Sisyphus posted:

C.R.E.A.M

chris rules everything around me?

Colostomy Bag posted:

How does that meet fire code?

SelenicMartian posted:

Something could be done with Chris pressing the button, but I'm out of ideas

Hillary Clintons Thong posted:

Hey Chris this will really wow those investors.


Chris imagining himself with a group of big money of investors, walking down the hall. Stopping before the sliding door he says, "And this, gentlemen, is where dreams are made" and they step in and are amazed with how into it they are and buy into the dream and throw garbage bags of money at him.


I'm almost 99% sure some variation of that is why those doors exist.

edit: Basically willy wonka, he wants to be willy wonka

hakimashou posted:

hakimashou posted:

this is legit the best stream they have ever done

ewe2 posted:

Ooh now a talking heads cover I could do NO NOT PSYCHO KILLER THAT'S TOO EASY. You want the parps to surprise you, not to be the only joke.

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I'll take it under consideration. I've actually been considering Social Disease which is a lot closer to the kind of thing I'm after. Other ideas floating around: Dead Parps Don't Talk by Brian Eno, Airlock (Snail Shell, TMBG).

Goobs posted:

lando is so jittery and poo poo, is he on coke

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I'm speaking from the background of beta-testing Mechwarrior Online which also uses the CryEngine3... Have you been made aware that one of the biggest issues that was presented to the PGI team was the interfacing of the network code to the CryEngine3. Rubber banding and hit-box recognition were big stumbling blocks in the progression of the beta.