More than 10 player A.I. Games

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  1. Fyeris

    Fyeris New Member

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    Does Uber plan on adding the ability to have games versus AI opponents that are greater than 10 players? 35 player FFA vs bots would be amazing.
    Fyeris, February 2, 2015
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  2. theseeker2

    theseeker2 Well-Known Member

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    isn't it technically already possible?
    theseeker2, February 2, 2015
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  3. Fyeris

    Fyeris New Member

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    How? Lobby restricts to 10 players.
    Fyeris, February 2, 2015
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    masterdigital Uber Alumni

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    The lobby can be modded. However, the real problem is that each player (or AI) that you add make the game more performance intensive. If you had a really powerful server you could do this right now.
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    cola_colin Moderator Alumni

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    realistically no CPU exists on earth that can do that though. At least none I could rent. Looking forward to those optimizations that sorian spoke of.

    Anyway you can modify your local server easily (edit /media/server-script/states/lobby.js around line 45 change var MAX_PLAYERS = 10; to whatever you want) and install "unlimited players" in pamm with removes the limit in the lobby. Then make a local game and torture your own computer all you want.
    cola_colin, February 2, 2015
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  6. zweistein000

    zweistein000 Post Master General

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    Talking about more than 10 player games: Is that still on agenda and is it something down line or really soon?
    zweistein000, February 2, 2015
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    Masterdigital, does uber have any plans on upgrading their server's performance/capacity to allow this kind of game to be possible?
    Fyeris, February 2, 2015
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  8. cola_colin

    cola_colin Moderator Alumni

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    @sorian spoke of performance optimizations he was working on in the clanwars twitch chat. So they do have performance on the agenda, which is the one issue that makes those big games so troublesome.
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  9. Murcanic

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    how bad would a com boxing moon be with 40 players?
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  10. cola_colin

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    com boxing would probably work fine I think. The number of players doesn't matter much (if your server sits in a datacenter with 1GB network), the number of units does.
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  11. tatsujb

    tatsujb Post Master General

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    this. I was about to say this myself.
    tatsujb, February 2, 2015
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  12. SXX

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    I think bandwidth wouldn't be real issue for the game with like 200 units even if there will be 100 players.
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  13. theseeker2

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    Good thing Uber has lots of those :^)
    theseeker2, February 2, 2015
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  14. killerkiwijuice

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    Erm actually, if the servers can't handle 300 dox patrol, then they wont be able to handle more than 10 AI.

    Play Fab doesn't have supercomputers.
    killerkiwijuice, February 2, 2015
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  15. theseeker2

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    they can handle a 300 dox patrol just fine, hell, my machine can do that
    theseeker2, February 2, 2015
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  16. killerkiwijuice

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    I was exaggerating, but really the servers die when you patrol lots of dox. In fact, go try to patrol 300 on a medium sized planet and see how laggy the game becomes.
    killerkiwijuice, February 2, 2015
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  17. Sorian

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    :)
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  18. theseeker2

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    multithreaded pathfinding confirmed
    theseeker2, February 2, 2015
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  19. cola_colin

    cola_colin Moderator Alumni

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    lol
    cola_colin, February 2, 2015
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  20. killerkiwijuice

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    Oh god.... the evil smiley face means something big is coming for server performance.
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