Friday Facts #50 Growing secretly

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kovarex wrote:Edit: I know that Starcraft made it deterministic, so it has to be possible :)
Have you read this very interessting article written by a starcraft 1 developer?

http://www.codeofhonor.com/blog/tough-t ... -starcraft

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Looks like some good resources here: http://gafferongames.com/networking-for ... terminism/

Forrest Smith (Gas Powered Games developer) recommended this in an article on determinism in Supreme Commander).

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I am really looking forward to some new content in the near future when the office move is done. Not having anything new (it is how it seems anyway for a singleplayer guy like me) except for some changed graphics since january when oil was introduced. The 8 months long bugfixing run needs to meet an end soon is my highly personal opinion, because this game feels like it will be awesome if it ever gets anywhere.

TY for making it!

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BurnHard wrote:Have you read this very interessting article written by a starcraft 1 developer?
http://www.codeofhonor.com/blog/tough-t ... -starcraft
The entire blog is quite intereseting.
Thanks for the link.

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MF- wrote:
BurnHard wrote:Have you read this very interessting article written by a starcraft 1 developer?
http://www.codeofhonor.com/blog/tough-t ... -starcraft
The entire blog is quite intereseting.
Thanks for the link.
You're welcome.

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From that blog I also reached some notes about networking in Age of Empiries
http://www.gamasutra.com/view/feature/1 ... hp?print=1

To me it seems quite similar to the system planned for factorio.
It's detailed in some factorio's to-be-solved parts too
(i.e. handling lantency and GPU power differences)

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>> ... But I'm coming to a realisation, that although the game can become bigger and bigger, the feasibility of getting to the point of having 0 bugreports and no tasks on the todolist is comparable to the feasibility of filling the infinite space with sphere made from very limited amount of resources.

Hmmm. Well you could "simply" make the bugs a little smarter, or make them mod-controllable so the modders can do it (maybe they are already), and call it done. It's already a wonderful game. You should save something for factorio 2 (or whatever comes next) :)

("simply" is in quotes because nothing in game programming is ever very simple)

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Flux Faraday wrote:>> ... But I'm coming to a realisation, that although the game can become bigger and bigger, the feasibility of getting to the point of having 0 bugreports and no tasks on the todolist is comparable to the feasibility of filling the infinite space with sphere made from very limited amount of resources.

Hmmm. Well you could "simply" make the bugs a little smarter, or make them mod-controllable so the modders can do it (maybe they are already), and call it done. It's already a wonderful game. You should save something for factorio 2 (or whatever comes next) :)

("simply" is in quotes because nothing in game programming is ever very simple)

Simply making bugs; I can do that.

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ible wrote:Simply making bugs; I can do that.
lol. Yes, I should have said "biter," not "bug" :)

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