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This category consists of posts which form “1st beta” of the Vol.I-III of the upcoming book “Development & Deployment of Multiplayer Online Games”. Please note that “2nd beta” (available on Indiegogo) has 75% of the new content compared to the “1st beta” (in particular, based on the comments here on ithare.com and on /r/programming), so please don’t hit me too hard for the quality of the “1st beta”. ToC of “2nd beta”.
| Quote: | “In practice, for most classical RPGs you can get away with simulating each of your PCs and NPCs as a box (parallelepiped), or as prism (say, hexagonal or octagonal one)” |
| Another Quote: | “Mathematically speaking, without Interest Management, the amount of data on our servers will need to send (to all players combined), is O(N^2). Interest Management reduces this number to O(N)” |
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| Quote: | “For fast-paced games, there is one big problem with the flow shown on this diagram, and the name of the problem is “latency” (a.k.a. ‘input lag’)” |
| Another Quote: | “No, better bandwidth doesn’t necessarily mean better latency” |
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| Quote: | “From the 50’000-feet point of view, 90% of the differences between modern mainstream programming languages (as they’re normally used – or better to say, SHOULD be used – at application-level) are minor or superficial.” |
| Another Quote: | “On the server side (unlike client-side) protection from bot writers is not an issue (as server-side code is never exposed to players)” |
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| Quote: | “With ‘callback pyramid’ it is not easy to express the concept of ‘wait for more than one thing to complete’ , which leads to unnecessary sequencing, adding to latencies (which may or may not be a problem for your purposes, but still a thing to keep in mind).” |
| Another Quote: | “Don’t even think of converting all of your code to a so-called Continuation-Passing-Style” |
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| Quote: | “Each server is only as secure as its admin” |
| Another Quote: | “For cheaper servers, the difference between Windows and Linux can eat as much as 50% of the server rental price (though for those servers which are more or less optimal price-performance-wise observed difference was closer to 20-30%).” |
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| Quote: | “[about Round-Robin DNS] one of these returned IPs can get cached by a Big Fat DNS server, and then get distributed to many thousands of clients” |
| Another Quote: | “As a rule of thumb, Front-End Servers are a Good Thing™” |
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| Quote: | “If you disrupt the game-event-currently-in-progress for more than 0.5-2 minutes, for almost-any synchronous multi-player game you won’t be able to get the same players back, and will need to rollback the game event anyway.” |
| Another Quote: | “However, keep in mind, that all fall-tolerant solutions are complicated, costly, and for the games realm I generally consider them as an over-engineering (even by my standards).” |
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