Indeed time will tell but as the game progress, it really does seem to be an expanded universe of Privateer which is great.
I have a feeling most of the time it's not the client's physics grid but a glitch between where the server thinks you are and where the client thinks you are when placing objects and so the placed object get coupled to the wrong physics grid.
There is a disconnect of CIG/players speculating and theory crafting on what they want and would could be potential and what actually will happen. CIG states they are looking to attempt 1000 v 1000, players then blow this out of proportion or take it as it is going to happen. Most people complaining about expectations are people making this expectations on speculation and theory crafting, not what CIG has stated will and can be. If they have made statements and then said they found out they couldn't, people need to not be so butt hurt that they learned something new due to technology limitations that werent discovered until they tried. Simply how shit works in life. They want to promise the world, but sometimes they get a kick of reality and it even sucks for them to learn these things when they just as badly want to make what we all want. This amazingly mind blowing game that defies all expectations. They are human too, but when they do this as well, people seem to burn them at the stake for being just like us. So far from all the things I have read, they are delivering nicely on a lot of things. If something gets pushed back or needs reworking then I dont see an issue simply because its all brand new technology that is being created solely for this game. This isnt some game engine that has been around for over a decade and everyone knows 100% what can and cannot be done with it.
Well yea, and you willingly give them money. The game is crowd funded, that is nothing new. I havent heard anything grand that they promised and they havent been working towards or kept yet. They never said they are going to have 1k players on a server, they talked about the possibility. If you believed that then you fell into your own trap thinking they were going to do it when they never said it was a guarantee and it was simply them theory crafting. That specific thing I know they never stated it was going to happen in any capacity other than they want to try.
Are we talking thousands of players per server as in thousands of players per server engaged in an epic space battle? Or are we talking thousands of players per server of players who can play together in the same persistent universe?
Planetside 2 can handle realatively high numbers though. They also can handle thousands of players on the same map all fighting. So if battle space was spread out far enough in SC it is possible. Just clustered 1k vs 1k would be a mess. PS2 does it well by spreading out the fighting with various attack points/ objectives.
Unless they slow down server time like EvE, but yes they need to have bigger 100v100, I would be fine with 200v200, but this doesnt necessarily mean 200 ships. It is only 200 people.
Yes and no. If you've played any of the battlefield games then 16 on 16 is a blast and 32 on 32 can be fun but is far more of a chaotic experience where luck factors in more vs the smaller player counts were skill and experience has a far bigger impact on the outcome. Even in games like Planetside 2 the map creation allows the players to spread out more which reduces the number of player on player encounters and allows for a bit more skill to show (still there were lots of map choke points that ended up in a slow bloodbath grind)
One would hope. I do know as much as the community loved Ben he was detrimental to the community due to his continued information dump that wasn't always inline with the direction development was going in. Even to this day, he has to be one of the most quoted individuals even when the elements in the PU show otherwise.
That's perverting what they are saying, they are not giving the impressions. They have blatantly stated hopefully and possibly. This equates to them saying they are simply trying, they are not trying to allude that you should donate to use, we are going to have 1000 player battles. They have made it crystal clear. 1 thousand player battles is a goal they want to reach but might not be attainable. To think any other than that is simply manipulating what they are saying to fit an agenda. They are not trying to allude to anything other then they want to try for those numbers and it isnt a promise or guarantee. So you can't go in saying to yourself, " They told us we would have 1 thousand player battles at some point."
You know, honestly I haven't given it much thought. I think that SC was originally conceived with a myriad of thoughts and ideas around how it would play etc. Part of the constant re-works and time delays I think were due to poor project management and massive scope creep. That being said, it feels like they're reigning things in. The focus has been on S42 for the most part, with the PU taking benefits that are developed as a result of that. The PU has been tightened down and development feels focused with new features delayed in favor of bug fixes and fleshing out existing features.
Also keep in mind that they have stated that areas will be instanced out if needed. The fact is if you have a thousand people converge on PO, it would be a shit show. I get they can't get more than 50 people on a server w/o stability issues right now but I am confident that will change. People forget that they're doing something nobody else has done, and it's going to make things complicated. If they were building this game to be no better or worse than say Elite Dangerous then I'm sure we'd be well above the 50 player cap by now.
