Thoatse posted:

https://i.imgur.com/RdVNCyQ.gifv

Aqua Seafoam Shame posted:

Brendan "PlayerUnknown" Greene hawking an Earth-sized Second Life on the pages of PC Gamer. Listen to him echo the Crobbler here:

https://www.pcgamer.com/i-got-to-see-pubg-creator-brendan-greenes-next-project-a-digital-world-the-size-of-a-real-planet/

Edit: gently caress, there's more:

grimcreaper posted:

I'm glad to see in the years I've been gone star citizen has made the same amount of progress as I have in life. None.

colonelwest posted:

Yeah it’s not that egregious compared to most virtual world dreams.txt, and it seems like he has the resources to pull of some version of it. But it feels like it’s just going to turn into another open world survival/crafting snooze fest. At this point whenever I see an article like this plastered with screenshots of proc-gen forests, my mind just shuts down.

Aqua Seafoam Shame posted:

Brendan "PlayerUnknown" Greene hawking an Earth-sized Second Life on the pages of PC Gamer. Listen to him echo the Crobbler here:

https://www.pcgamer.com/i-got-to-see-pubg-creator-brendan-greenes-next-project-a-digital-world-the-size-of-a-real-planet/

Edit: gently caress, there's more:

Aqua Seafoam Shame posted:

"I see us having AI helpers in the game," he says. "You [could] have a wood chopper, or a scientist, or a metal worker that you can show where the forest is. And then they go and run back and forth and get you wood. And maybe the more players you get in your civilization or your village, the town grows, the borders grow, you get more AI, this kind of fostering community, right? And I'm trying to see if we can do something like a massive life game mode."

bandaid.friend posted:

He's making Age of Empires... ?

bandaid.friend posted:

He's making Age of Empires... ?

colonelwest posted:

Friend of the thread Montoya is still trying to hawk his lovely crypto scheme.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e2QyGz_0wBg

TheDeadlyShoe posted:

lmao every goon click is a significant increase in viewer-count~

Only Kindness posted:

That box art thing earlier reminded me: where's Shelly Miscavige Sandi?

Popete posted:

If you look at his other videos they all get a few thousand views nothing too crazy but it's consistent and then each video labelled "Web3" is only a few hundred. That people are still trying to push NFTs and new coins is hilarious.

Popete posted:

Dwarf Fortress works because it's single player so you can feasibly manage your forts plethora of items/boulders.

colonelwest posted:

We all predicted that PES would be a giant self-own that would just break the game in new ways. And we all know where it’s going. After a few more years, millions of dollars and untold man hours, they’ll just introduce some culling feature that will start removing objects when the local count hits 100. They’ll call it dynamic entity streaming or some poo poo, and Piss Cat will write a wall of text about how it’s a massive technical triumph.

Tippis posted:

…and it will invariably prioritise removing players from the game world rather than decorative objects.

pun pundit posted:

No no, it will be coded to remove the oldest objects first. So it will start with the old space station, then the planets, sun, trains, and so on.

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To understand this you have to understand what Persistent Entity Streaming, server meshing, Gen12 / Vulkan and Squadron 42 Episode One will bring. Squadron 42 right now is the developmental 'hot-bed' and testing area for a lot of capability and content coming to the PU mainly because the current servers without server meshing couldn't handle all of it, and also because of 'spoilers'.

First - server meshing will allow the game to expand both in scope and the number of concurrent players per shard once the physical limitations of AWS server build are no longer relevant. The only reason the servers are struggling now is because they have to hold the whole Stanton system and everything in it - 4 planets, 12 moons, 19 space stations, dozens of outposts, as well as everything the 100 players bring. With server meshing they can have a server only hold one moon, or even one space station. Without all that Stanton content the servers can hold a LOT more players each. They can have as many AWS servers per shard as they please and those servers will run more efficiently with Gen12, the first iterations of Gen12 are in the game now.

The limit to dense collections of players in an area becomes the capability of the PC clients connected to each shard, those limitations will also be lessened by Gen12 / Vulkan. To control this they will restrict player movement about the game space by (in lore methods) shutting down Jump Gates temporarily if an area gets too crowded for example. we're not allowed to post spoilers or leaks in this forum, but there is a leaked Squadron 42 video out there that will clearly demonstrate that fleet battles can be huge even though they are running on a single PC.

Second - the star systems being developed for Squadron 42 can be released to the PU after Squadron 42 E1 is no longer kept under wraps. Best guess by those of us following SQ42 E1 closely is around 10 or 12 star systems for Squadron 42, even Pyro is bigger than Stanton - that will be a massive expansion of the play space. So 10,000 players per shard spread over that huge play space will still be a fairly 'lonely experience' as far as player / player encounters go. They can spin up as many shards as they need, as each shard's efficiency increases (with dynamic server meshing for example) they can reduce shards to regional.

Third - and most importantly, both the expansion of the PU to Pyro and Nyx, coupled with SQ42 E1 systems (and SQ42 E1 sales) will bring in more general gamer interest and funding to hire more staff to create new star systems much faster since the tools have been made to do it already. They are already significantly expanding the teams making content. Those who don't understand point to the number of jobs advertised by CIG, but that says nothing - they plan to more than double the number of team members they had in 2020, so they'll always be vacancies even though they are recruiting more than ever.

When people talk about the 100 star systems mentioned at Kickstarter launch (when the game plan was tiny compared to what it is now) they intrinsically think of games like NMS, Elite Dangerous etc where you roll through that system in an hour or maybe two, but the Star Citizen star systems will be so packed with stuff to do and see you'll spend months or even years in one place, even if there are only 20 star systems that's more content than any player could get around to in a lifetime. Absolutely no-one will see all of it, or even a large proportion of it. CIG has new hires making things for the game for a fun introduction to the tools and company that other game companies make a whole game out of! We know there's going to be scramble races on Hurston, because it's on the Roadmap. They can do this stuff because there's no 'suits' tapping their wallets impatiently telling them they can't.

Another advantage of the years of R&D and tool making is that they can take far less experienced (and cheaper) team members to learn those tools in-house to grind out content. For example a brand new hire made the turret for the 600i update recently and they have recruited many new hires in the last year to the props teams and landing zone teams / Sandbox teams- Lorville is getting a big expansion right now. Which is why they have moved to bigger, better equipped premises in the last couple of years in Canada, the UK and Germany. They are reaching out to schools and colleges to recruit even now. They have a whole department in 4 countries dedicated to recruitment.

The final foundations - Persistent Entity Streaming, Server Meshing and Gen 12 - are being worked on now as well as Quantum (massive dynamic NPC populations) and Quasar (the game economy system), they aren't some nebulous future goals, Once those foundations are in place and stable then expansion can just take off because of all the work done to date which was done in anticipation of those core pillars being in place.

There will always be the negative-nancy's decrying everything insisting that no work has been done (server meshing has been worked on for more than 3 years) but even they can't argue that content is being added to the game at a faster and faster rate despite the current server limitations.

Mirificus posted:

Mirificus posted:

" but the Star Citizen star systems will be so packed with stuff to do and see you'll spend months or even years in one place, even if there are only 20 star systems that's more content than any player could get around to in a lifetime."

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Star Citizen star systems will be so packed with stuff to do and see you'll spend months or even years in one place, even if there are only 20 star systems that's more content than any player could get around to in a lifetime. Absolutely no-one will see all of it, or even a large proportion of it.