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Assorted Rants Tagged ‘Protocol’, page 2:

MMOG: World States and Reducing Traffic

posted February 1, 2016 by "No Bugs" Hare

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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posted January 25, 2016 by "No Bugs" Hare

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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posted June 1, 2015 by "No Bugs" Hare

Quote:	“You shouldn’t count on outsmarting all those millions of highly motivated hackers operating in an environment under their own control.”
Another Quote:	“Burst consisting of several million packets, may start causing observable issues for a mid-size ISP.”
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posted May 25, 2015 by "No Bugs" Hare

Quote:	“While using framework is fine, forgetting about it is not.”
Another Quote:	“Even if you’re forcing the auto-update every time the game app starts, there still are users who were online at the moment of the update, and those who found a way to bypass game updates”
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