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Licarn posted:one of these things will happen Doubt it. The server could easily run on a $20/mo. Linode server or someone's Google Fiber account. The vast majority of the network traffic is peer-to-peer (the first client that enters a scene gets designated master and acts as a server host, the "game server" primarily does account authentication, player character persistence and basic fraud/dupe checking off monster drops/quest rewards) so even more than any other MMO it could run indefinitely in a corner somewhere. Lum_ fucked around with this message at 20:11 on Nov 7, 2019 |
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Lum_ posted:Doubt it. The server could easily run on a $20/mo. Linode server or someone's Google Fiber account. The vast majority of the network traffic is peer-to-peer (the first client that enters a scene gets designated master and acts as a server host, the "game server" primarily does account authentication, player character persistence and basic fraud/dupe checking off monster drops/quest rewards) so even more than any other MMO it could run indefinitely in a corner somewhere. This upsets me, I know it shouldn't, but it does. I just hate the thought of seeing this game survive, it absolutely does not deserve to.
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The good news with that scheme is that if there are no players the game isn't really running
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schrodinger's game
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CoffeeBooze posted:Is there anyone in this thread under the age of 35? Jeez. i'm 34 ha ha suck it
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Lum_ posted:The vast majority of the network traffic is peer-to-peer (the first client that enters a scene gets designated master and acts as a server host Can you give any insight into how NAT busting is performed and what is done if those techniques fail? Does the master stay as a solo instance or are they eventually merged in with another?
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It will be interesting to see where this is in 2 years. I can see the same ~200 people playing it forever, truly.
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HungryMedusa posted:It will be interesting to see where this is in 2 years. I can see the same ~200 people playing it forever, truly. Same people, most likely still the same content as at launch.
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yoloer420 posted:Can you give any insight into how NAT busting is performed and what is done if those techniques fail? Does the master stay as a solo instance or are they eventually merged in with another? Don't remember the details of implementation, sorry. (it's been almost 2 years since I worked there and I wasn't working on that bit).
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with garriott officially out the door, the cult of personality around this is probably going to head into a sharper decline than it already is you're talking probably less than a few dozen active players in the next 8 to 12 months, although these people will be the ones pouring a shitload of money into the game to "save" it it'll probably still be taking in some money for the next 18 to 24 months before the last handful of faithful players move onto the next big mmo grift honestly, it wasn't a bad move to buy it and put in on life support to continue squeezing the player base for every last dollar
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It would be a terrible idea for anyone to put more money into this game, there isn't the team to create new content. Episode 2 is likely never coming out, they couldn't even meet a single stretch goal.
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TheAgent posted:with garriott officially out the door, the cult of personality around this is probably going to head into a sharper decline than it already is I'm guessing that it will end up like Star Trek Online: supported 100% by two or three dozen whales.
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I said come in! posted:It would be a terrible idea for anyone to put more money into this game, there isn't the team to create new content. Episode 2 is likely never coming out, they couldn't even meet a single stretch goal.
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 I also think devs that excel at single-player games should make MMOs after I found out SotA was a trainwreck.
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Is this now the former LtM/Slow News Day/Corpnews community thread? There certainly isn't much game to discuss here so it's definitely fitting.
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There hasn't been much of a game for a couple of years now. Development has stagnated and the community is dissipating. The only thing that's really left is watching how they try to keep it on life support until it dies.
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I hang up my robe and wizard hat 
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Can I have your stuff?
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https://twitter.com/catnipgames/status/1194953250845417473 That's one way to purge the CS queue.
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these guys are really bad at coming up with decent company names
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that's been his company's name forever, his twitter and reddit accounts always had that ID https://www.reddit.com/user/catnipgames/
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hahaha dear god that post history
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you can actually tell when things started falling completely apart at the company about two years ago
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TheAgent posted:hahaha dear god that post history Dear God indeed. 
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HungryMedusa posted:Dear God indeed. lol at everything about this. Game went F2P anyways, and the move attracted absolutely no one new.
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I said come in! posted:lol at everything about this. Game went F2P anyways, and the move attracted absolutely no one new. and to think I was on the fence about dumping  to not play this, now I can not play it and get myself a few corndogs on the side, too!
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 Edit: Oh yeah, you can also harvest unicorns now. 
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Can't wait for Cross Promos with other teams
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You'd think killing and eating an embodiment of the hopes and dreams of children would have some kind of negative consequences.
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Boomers have been doing that for years, why would it start having consequences now?
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Schubalts posted:You'd think killing and eating an embodiment of the hopes and dreams of children would have some kind of negative consequences.
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Schubalts posted:You'd think killing and eating an embodiment of the hopes and dreams of children would have some kind of negative consequences. After the accusations of what kind of RP some players get up to in this game this is completely unsurprising.
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SUPERMAN'S GAL PAL posted:After the accusations of what kind of RP some players get up to in this game this is completely unsurprising. It's more the surprise is that it took them this long to implement it.
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Player GMs. I'm excited about this.
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lol at player gamemasters. Yeah that's not going to result in a gigantic clusterfuck that ruins the game even further.
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