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+ <B>Nahuel Greco</B>
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+ <I>Mon, 19 Feb 2001 15:46:01 -0300</I>
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+<PRE>On Mon, 19 Feb 2001 17:33:33 +0100
+Vincent Archer &lt;<A HREF="mailto:archer@nevrax.com">archer@nevrax.com</A>&gt; wrote:
+
+&gt;<i> According to Glaze:
+</I>&gt;<i> &gt; Hello,
+</I>&gt;<i> &gt;
+</I>&gt;<i> &gt; I have one &quot;small&quot; question and I hope this is the right place to ask it. I
+</I>&gt;<i> &gt; was just wonder how (or if) you will solve the question of how to balance
+</I>&gt;<i> &gt; the workload on the game servers, will you use some kind of dynamic load
+</I>&gt;<i> &gt; balancing or have you opted for another approach.
+</I>&gt;<i>
+</I>&gt;<i> Hmm, I realise I've explained what is dynamic load balancing, but I
+</I>&gt;<i> haven't answered this question.
+</I>&gt;<i>
+</I>&gt;<i> Let's hope we have a good discussion on this :)
+</I>&gt;<i>
+</I>&gt;<i> If you look at some of the basics in the... ok in the future design
+</I>&gt;<i> documents, you see we're working with a kind of ORB approach, with
+</I>&gt;<i> a naming service, which lets you discuss with specific services.
+</I>&gt;<i>
+</I>
+You will use standard CORBA?, wich orb?
+
+
+&gt;<i> We're aiming for a functional approach, not the classic EQ/UO/AC
+</I>&gt;<i> geographical approach. In that classic model, each processus is a
+</I>&gt;<i> complete copy of the code. It contains everything, from spell effects
+</I>&gt;<i> to pathfinding to combat code. Each process serves a specific &quot;area&quot;,
+</I>&gt;<i> which is defined by an X/Y/Z box (or, for EQ, a zone ID number, since
+</I>&gt;<i> each area is strictly separate).
+</I>&gt;<i>
+</I>&gt;<i> We're not going to use this approach. Chiefly because static allocation
+</I>&gt;<i> fails when you put too many objects in the same area (be it because a
+</I>&gt;<i> guild has decided to hold a meeting of all its 350 members there, or
+</I>&gt;<i> because we want to have an event with an army of 100 mobs spawning).
+</I>&gt;<i> And, as I explained somewhere else, dynamic allocation means:
+</I>&gt;<i> 1) A complete lack of control on what process is doing what, and
+</I>&gt;<i> 2) A need for a very fast way of finding who is near you and under
+</I>&gt;<i> which process control
+</I>&gt;<i>
+</I>&gt;<i> What we're aiming for is a functional approach. That is, each service
+</I>&gt;<i> provides specific functions. For example, all items in the game are
+</I>&gt;<i> handled by a single service. Combat runs on a separate service.
+</I>&gt;<i> And so on.
+</I>&gt;<i>
+</I>
+What are the &quot;functional&quot; parts that you will be planning?
+
+
+How do you plan to send the map to the user, i mean, if you divide the game
+in areas, you can say the client to download the map for an area before
+enter, but if you dont use the area-divided approach, then, you must send
+the sorrounding terraing at each step that the client do?
+
+
+There is no risks of overloading the internal network / get out of sync?
+
+
+&gt;<i> I'll let you imagine how this works, and then will further explain as
+</I>&gt;<i> you try to shoot holes into that design. :)
+</I>&gt;<i>
+</I>&gt;<i>
+</I>
+
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