Instancing with 50-100 players is out, now 1000 players?

[Montoya]

It does not sound like its 100% proven yet, but Chris Roberts is on record here saying that the original instancing system we have all been told about since the beginning is now old and busted. New tech is in that can potentially allow 1000 players?

Even without knowing any facts, I will be a bit more conservative on that number, but even 500 players on a server will be an amazing achievement!

He says it here at time index 28:10 in this video:

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nvule1cD_zk&feature=youtu.be&t=1690

 

[NapalmX]

To start off with 1000 players in an instance would be jaw-dropping. I used to be impressed with BF and 64 players at once.

 

[AstroSam]

THOUSANDS OF PLAYERS in one instance!? THOUSANDS!!!
Has...has he invested his first 100 Mio. in a Quantum CPU by google? Anyway, I would be highly interested in more detailed information about these "mashed servers" and "new server designs", which he mentions.

 

[DrunkenTeddy]

I believe he says thousands in one area. The system they want to use involves instances within instances, but they want it to be seamless and feel like you have 1000 players in the same instance.

 

[AstroSam]

Ah, okay, thanks for that. Seems I was too [CONCERN]ed for the moment. ;)

 

[Xist]

Sweet! Cloud auto scaling put to good use. :)

 

[Carlos Spicyweiner]

A thousand potential targets?! Or more accurately, I will be a target for thousands!o_O

 

[Montoya]

Sweet! Cloud auto scaling put to good use. :)

Now you are just making up words!

 

[Han Burgundy]

Wow....we actually may end up being able to blot out the sun with our auroras.....Neat!

 

[fiarce]

Now you are just making up words!

Weren't all words made up at some point?

 

[Montoya]

Weren't all words made up at some point?

Why dont you go enjoy a cool beer!

Oh wait... you dont have a mug! ;)

Looking the pics, its not even the box we shipped it in, somebody really went town on that!

(Fiarce mug shipment was crushed into glass powder!)

 

[Murderer]

Hold on, how many beers will be able to fit into an instance?

 

[fiarce]

Oh wait... you dont have a mug! ;)
(Fiarce mug shipment was crushed into glass powder!)

As if the USPS note wasn't salt enough for the wound!

 

[CosmicTrader]

THOUSANDS OF PLAYERS in one instance!? THOUSANDS!!!
Has...has he invested his first 100 Mio. in a Quantum CPU by google? Anyway, I would be highly interested in more detailed information about these "mashed servers" and "new server designs", which he mentions.

They have been testing the latest server technology by Intel for the past several months.
http://www.digitaltrends.com/computing/intel-server-version4/
Perhaps that is what CR is talking about.

 

[Montoya]

They have been testing the latest server technology by Intel for the past several months.
http://www.digitaltrends.com/computing/intel-server-version4/
Perhaps that is what CR is talking about.

We should be able to get about 30fps in Olisar with those!

 

[Montoya]

Some more explanation here:

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n6g-ECx-7xw&feature=youtu.be&t=17m12s

 

[Xian-Luc Picard]

We should be able to get about 30fps in Olisar with those!

Always the optimist.

 

[Gearen]

Hold on, how many beers will be able to fit into an instance?

Like 2

 

[CosmicTrader]

We should be able to get about 30fps in Olisar with those!

On an empty instance. Ha. Ha.

 

[Xist]

I talked to CR about this very thing a few years ago.

He mentions "things you can do with the cloud", and he is referring to cloud auto scaling.

So it's not a super computer, but it is the ability for the number of computers all working on the same problem to increase the number of CPUs as needed. This you can scale up without having to constantly pay for huge amounts of computer power that you rarely actually need.

When there are 10 players in an area, you only need 2 cores. When there are 1000, you need 200 cores, which can't be done in 1 machine, but it can be done on multiple machines.

At that point the main blocker becomes network throughout, so it doesn't work for unlimited scaling, but it's way, way better than trying to force everything to run on a single physical server, which is historically how things have been done.