This is an excerpt of a conversation we were having about AC on our allegiance boards:
Person 1: I hope they upgrade the hardware for the DT server....paying $13 a month for a server from 99 is pretty ghey.
Person 2: I don't think it's the hardware so much as a bad game engine. Reason being the game engine has never allowed parties of much over 50 in the same location without portal storms. That's a very small number. Somebody probably coded something up quickly and left. Kind of like the proverbial sort routines that work great with 20 numbers but takes all day with 2,000,000 numbers. If the proper sort is used the 2,000,000 numbers can be sorted in a little less than twice the time of the 20. Upgrading the hardware is probably just going to allow a slight enhancement. Upgrading the software is where it's at. Unfortunately it seems they only have artists and data entry people there who can only add new creatures, islands, and stats. They haven't yet modified the game engine itself in 13 years. :(
Me: Very good points. The people who wrote the game code (Microsoft/Turbine) are likely long gone. I think you summed it up pretty nice. What a wonderful, unlikely delight it would be if they re-wrote the game code from the ground up. *sigh* or at least get some competent programmers to get in there with their wrenches.
Person 1: I hope they upgrade the hardware for the DT server....paying $13 a month for a server from 99 is pretty ghey.
Person 2: I don't think it's the hardware so much as a bad game engine. Reason being the game engine has never allowed parties of much over 50 in the same location without portal storms. That's a very small number. Somebody probably coded something up quickly and left. Kind of like the proverbial sort routines that work great with 20 numbers but takes all day with 2,000,000 numbers. If the proper sort is used the 2,000,000 numbers can be sorted in a little less than twice the time of the 20. Upgrading the hardware is probably just going to allow a slight enhancement. Upgrading the software is where it's at. Unfortunately it seems they only have artists and data entry people there who can only add new creatures, islands, and stats. They haven't yet modified the game engine itself in 13 years. :(
Me: Very good points. The people who wrote the game code (Microsoft/Turbine) are likely long gone. I think you summed it up pretty nice. What a wonderful, unlikely delight it would be if they re-wrote the game code from the ground up. *sigh* or at least get some competent programmers to get in there with their wrenches.