50,000 man servers in 2010!

[KidRock]

http://slashdot.org/articles/04/08/29/1429246.shtml?tid=95

With those speeds I can see a game like BF1942 being able to hold around 50,000 people a server without lag :naughty:

 

[Farrowlesparrow]

:O

10Gbit...Thats....Thats.... against the laws of physics or something Really though, that would be very cool to have something that fast.

 

[FoxDie]

Let's hope they can get it out on time

 

[CrazyHarij]

10Gbit? Meh, we already got that in sweden. :hmph:

 

[Gunner]

http://slashdot.org/articles/04/08/29/1429246.shtml?tid=95

With those speeds I can see a game like BF1942 being able to hold around 50,000 people a server without lag :naughty:

No PC can handle that much strain. And the expected date is 2010 not 2005...

 

[KidRock]

No PC can handle that much strain. And the expected date is 2010 not 2005...

i just noticed that. I meant 2010.

Also..I think a PC WILL be able to handle that many players in 2010. Who knows what new hardware we will have.

 

[outpost]

[SARCASM]50000 mor n00bs foor mee to pwn in teh CS!1!11one![/SARCASM]

/me drools over thoughts of 10Gbit

 

[Farrowlesparrow]

10Gbit? Meh, we already got that in sweden. :hmph:

Yeah, just like you're been using the unicorn as transport for the past 2000 years.

 

[Chris D]

Imagine using that for internet access

I bet Valve will invest in some of those big mommas.

 

[Dalamari]

Man, 50,000 man servers would be a real war

But there will always be lag, the internet feeds on it.

 

[ailevation]

The dawn of realistic war games.

 

[Farrowlesparrow]

The only problem is getting 50,000 people to play at the same time, heh.

 

[KidRock]

The only problem is getting 50,000 people to play at the same time, heh.

heh nevermind 50,000 people..imagine having a 1000 man game.

 

[Chris D]

Using that for internet access would give you download speeds of 1.25GB/second. That's the equivalent of downloading the HL2 preloads in under a second :O

Your HDD would probably blow up.

 

[Farrowlesparrow]

Well current Hard drives might but whow knows what we will have in 5-10 years time.

 

[ailevation]

:dozey: Our HDD's probably would have like terabytes of storage.

 

[Hazar]

How would you get that many people anyway?

well I guess if there was only one server like that.

 

[Farrowlesparrow]

:dozey: Our HDD's probably would have like terabytes of storage.

Still it wouldn't take long to fill it up. Its not just the space either, its how fast it can write to the disk.

 

[Ames]

By 2010, you can probably expect a whole lot more gamers.

 

[KidRock]

Our harddrives would have to have like.. 100,000 RPMs.

 

[Cyanide]

Actually it's more like 130,000 players, not 50,000. If you figure it takes about 10kB/s per player to maintain lag free play (that's 80kb/s).

Of course, you'd have to have a hell of a system to handle data from that many players. It could be possible though. Consider that 6 years ago 400mhz was pretty fast. We're nearing 10 times that speed now. In 6 more years, we will almost certainly have 40ghz processors, or something with an equivilant performance difference. Considering that technology is changing faster every 45 days than it did in the first 100 years of the telephone and the speed of change is still accelerating.

 

[ailevation]

:dozey: 40 Gig Intel processors in 6 years going for $400... 3.6 Ghz Intel processors of today going for $400.

 

[merc]

they should just have all wars online and no one would ever die in real life, i wouild be like rambo

-merc

 

[Chris D]

It'd sort of rule out games like Counter-Strike.

You can imagine it can't you? Some sort of team based game where you can't respawn until the round has ended, and you've got some gimp stuck in the corner of a map with an AWP, warming his feet next to his nice campfire

 

[Hazar]

I think ammo would become a problem for him though

but yeah, the type of games that would benefit the most would be like a war simulation with each person being played and with ranks and such.

 

[ailevation]

:cheers: Holy shit imagine even a 1000 man server, where you die, next round you spawn. There's one guy left on each team and the map is like super duper humongulous. That would suck pee pee.

 

[Death.Trap]

It'd sort of rule out games like Counter-Strike.

You can imagine it can't you? Some sort of team based game where you can't respawn until the round has ended, and you've got some gimp stuck in the corner of a map with an AWP, warming his feet next to his nice campfire

We call that Raven Shield.

 

[Alsi]

they should just have all wars online and no one would ever die in real life

-merc

that would be really nice
:afro:


I want to jump out of an airplane with 200 others parachuters. And under us the battlefield...... :bounce:

Imagine e.g.1 single life. if i die, I can go to the movies that evening cause the round lasts about 4 hours

 

[Death.Trap]

You know if we wanted to travel the speed of light all we have to do is figure out how to convert matter into energy and then back again. Beam me up scotty?


(completely off topic..but yeah)

 

[nw909]

You know if we wanted to travel the speed of light all we have to do is figure out how to convert matter into energy and then back again. Beam me up scotty?


(completely off topic..but yeah)

Then re-materialize with our arms coming out of our eye sockets!

 

[outpost]

Then re-materialize with our arms coming out of our eye sockets!

Or worse!

 

[nw909]

Or worse!

Hey, hey :naughty:

 

[Foxtrot]

It would be complete chaos with that many...hell it is already with just 64. But I think BF2 is a step in the right direction, scaleable maps and squads should help with organization and crowding.

 

[Zeus]

Yeah I think valve will take advantage of the 50,000 person servers for HL2 come 2010. Maybe DNF will too.

 

[KidRock]

Yeah I think valve will take advantage of the 50,000 person servers for HL2 come 2010. Maybe DNF will too.

HL2 and DNF wont be out yet haha. (its sad when you have to compare DNF release with HL2's)

 

[Korgoth]

It would no longer be "camping" we would have to change it to ummmm....
"village-ing".

Or
"colonizing"??? maybe, I dunno'

 

[outpost]

It would no longer be "camping" we would have to change it to ummmm....
"village-ing".

Or
"colonizing"??? maybe, I dunno'

Heh you could sent up tents and stuff. Then real buildings and all while a wars going on. Then when you have a nice town set up with a working economy you get napalmed!

 

[ailevation]

Heh you could sent up tents and stuff. Then real buildings and all while a wars going on. Then when you have a nice town set up with a working economy you get napalmed!

Welcome to Sims 5.

 

[bam23]

10 giga- 10 giga- 10 giga- 10 giga- 10 giga- 10 gig- giga

:rolling:

 

[CyberSh33p]

nah, just wait til quantum computing becomes the norm, it wouldn't even be a matter of connection speed, you get everything instantly and the universe implodes on itself. They're a step towards the future as is