[gameprogrammer] Re: FPS with distributed servers
- From: Tom Wilson <t.wilson@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: gameprogrammer@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Fri, 04 Mar 2005 12:45:16 +0000
Daniel Cordeiro wrote:
>I've searched for Dawn of War on Google and found that this game is a
>strategy game, not a first-person shooter (FPS) game.
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Yes, but it's a *real time* strategy game. And it's just as fast and
furious as a FPS.
And supports up to 8 players (at the moment) so in terms of technical
challenge I can't see much difference to FPS.
>Someone told me that Diablo II has distributed servers (but is not P2P) as
>well.
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>I think (but I'm guessing) that strategies and RPG games are more
>easier to distribute the server processing because they can work
>better with more latency than FPS games.
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Well it is real time remember. If you ever played something like
Counter Strike (even source) you will know that when a high pinger
(>400) joins the server, everyone starts to lag and jerk about. Usually
the high pinger gets "asked" to go elsewhere.
>[ ]'s
>Daniel
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>On Fri, 04 Mar 2005 11:46:11 +0000, Tom Wilson <t.wilson@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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>>Dawn Of War is interesing because it used a peer-to-peer system. Or a
>>distributed server system if you like.
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>>Although one person creates the game, the creator can leave and so can
>>any of the other players. remaining players are free to play on.
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