Vol 2 Chapter 1042: City server

The first thousand and forty-two chapters

City server

Jade Raymond is a talent that Lin Feng will never waste!

This woman can definitely lead a game development team. Talents cannot be wasted! no way!

As for Gates, Lin Feng had planned to bring him out of the "Fourth Game Development Department" and let him focus on the position of Vice President. With the expansion of the "Second World", there are more and more game development departments under its control, and the mutual coordination and communication between the game departments are becoming more and more important. This needs to be handled by one person, and Wu Zhaopu is not a suitable candidate. He is not a computer professional himself, and he has no solution to many problems in game design. Wu Zhaopu is a managerial talent, but not a talent who can handle details (involving games).

Instead, Gates can. He is a senior game programmer himself, and he also founded a company, and has management skills in this area. Although he is not good at management, what Lin Feng needs him to do now is to coordinate the work between the ten major game departments to resolve related resource allocation and some differences. This job does not require much communication skills, not much eloquence, but more professional skills. Gates is undoubtedly very suitable!

Finally, after some discussions, Jade Raymond resigned as the head of the game engine development department and became the head of the "Fourth Game Development Department" responsible for the development of Assassin's Creed. At the same time, Jade Raymond also served as a senior consultant in the game engine department and continued to improve her "ergonomic system."

As for Gates, he removed his position as the head of the "Fourth Game Development Department" and focused his energy on the position of vice president, responsible for coordinating the work among the top ten game departments, and concurrently served as the head of the "Game Engine Development Department".

There was a round of applause in the meeting room. Applaud for the success of Jade Raymond! Lin Feng's appointment was quite an impact for everyone.

Although the "Game Engine Development Department" is a key department of the company, as the "Game Engine" has already been perfected, it is currently only undergoing repairs. The major game development departments only call the main body of the game engine, and then optimize them according to the different games they develop. For this reason, although the "Game Engine Development Department" seems important, its status in the "Second World" is not as good as other game development departments. This is why Jade Raymond was able to serve as the head of the "Game Engine Development Department". .

Now Lin Feng has asked Gates to remove his position as the head of the "Fourth Game Development Department" and transferred to Jade Raymond. This demonstrates Lin Feng’s absolute meritocracy, and it also proves that The "Second World", as long as you have talents, will never be buried. This is good news for everyone, because you don't have to worry about not being able to apply what you have learned.

"Lin, the world war has entered the final stage of improvement. At present, the 3D electronic maps of major cities around the world have been produced, and the final stage of the improvement work is in progress. The weapon settings have been undergoing final ballistic corrections, and the'ergonomic system' is also at the end. Perfection."-said Minwu-Li, director of the "Sixth Game Development Department".

When everyone heard the words, their eyes gleamed together. The World War is a masterpiece of the "Second World" and a masterpiece of the next ten years. Now, after 3 years of development, it is finally coming out. Three years of development time, investment of more than 1 billion US dollars, how can such a game not be expected.

"Minwu, are there any technical problems about the world war?" Lin Feng asked.

Lin Feng is also extremely looking forward to the World War, but he may also be afraid of failure because of too much expectations. Once the development of such a game fails, the consequences will not only be the loss of $1 billion in development fees, but will not only become the laughing stock of the industry, but will also be a great blow to the confidence of developers. Once it fails, the consequences are disastrous.

"Lin, there are two troubles now." Minwu-Li frowned. During the development of the World War, the impossible problem was solved, but now there are two problems that Minwu-Lee cannot solve, or in other words, he cannot solve it unilaterally.

"What problem?" Lin Feng asked.

"Lin, there are two troubles. The first is the computer performance of the players. Although we have optimized the game engine to the greatest extent, since this is a world war, a world war covering the whole world, what we design will be A huge battle of tens of thousands of people. In the face of such a huge battle, the current player’s computer performance cannot meet the needs. At that time, I am afraid that it will not be able to give players a refreshing sense of combat. This problem cannot be solved by software alone. Yes!" Min Wu-Li sighed helplessly.

For the World War, he has optimized it as much as possible. In the past three years, it can be said that he has spent most of his time optimizing the game engine. But technology has its limits. At least at the current level of technology, Minwu-Lee doesn't think the game industry can do better than his game development team. However, Minwu-Li has simply tested it. In the current mainstream configuration, the cpu is Pentium 4-1.8g, geforce3tai200-64m graphics card, 512m ddr memory, but even with such a mainstream configuration, playing World Wars will carry the most 1000 people, that is to say, in the same game scene, if there is a thousand people battle, the game will be stuck.

Only a thousand people will get the card, but then ten thousand people? Or even more people?

Although, in the same game scene, according to statistics, the concentration of players will not exceed 2,000, otherwise, it will be impenetrable, but Minwu-Li must take everything into consideration.

Lin Feng nodded, Lin Feng had already paid attention to this question.

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"Minwu, I already have a solution to this problem, I'll talk about it later. You talk about the second problem!" Lin Feng said.

Minwu-Li nodded.

"The second problem is the number of players on the server. "Minwu-Li thinks of this problem even more headache.

The original purpose of the World War was to develop a first-person shooter game that would cover global players, but the question now is whether the current internet speed can support global players playing on the same server regardless of the player’s computer performance. ? Minwu-Li thought about this problem and knew it was impossible.

How many first-person shooter game enthusiasts in the world, Minwu-Li conducted a survey, about 500 million people. If you count the ideas of the world war, once the world war is open for public testing, I am afraid that the global player base will exceed 800 million. Even on average, 33 million players will be online every hour. Of course, this algorithm is the simplest algorithm. In fact, due to the different time differences between countries, the average number of online users will exceed 70 million. This number is undoubtedly terrifying.

No matter how advanced supercomputers are now, they cannot calculate such a huge amount of data. You know, the world war is 3D. What's more, the player's computer is even more unable to load.

Lin Feng has also been distressed about this problem raised by Minwu-Li, but just recently Lin Feng also came up with a solution, but it was not mature enough, and it happened to be discussed now.

"Minwu, I have a solution to this problem. There is only one server in the entire world war, and the supercomputer will serve as the server. As for the number of supercomputers, it can be determined according to the actual situation." Lin Feng said.

Everyone frowned. How does this work, even if the "Second World" is willing to spend money and use hundreds of supercomputers to calculate, but the player's computer cannot be loaded, and the Internet speed is affected! Tens of millions, or even hundreds of millions of traffic, will cause network congestion. Even if there is "cloud computing", it won't work. Sometimes, hardware problems cannot be solved by software.

"It is true that'cloud computing' is not a panacea, and software cannot fundamentally solve the hardware bottleneck. However, using reasonable allocation and planning can solve this problem." Lin Feng said confidently.

Everyone was stunned, not understanding what Lin Feng meant.

"It's very simple. One server is used all over the world, but we can set up classification servers according to different cities!" Lin Feng said.

Classification server? ——Everyone was taken aback again, and Lin Feng proposed a new term.

"Yes, it is classified server. With a single city as a unit, the server can be built, so that the huge number of players around the world can be diverted and the load on the server can be reduced." Lin Feng said.

"But how is the global interconnection like this? The biggest selling point of the World War is that global players can interconnect, but how can they be classified like this?" Minwu-Li is a little puzzled.

"Haha, it's very simple. Although players are diverted to servers in various cities, the data of all players in the world is shared. For example, if a player in Guangzhou, China wants to attack Osaka, Japan, they only need to send an application to the system, and the system will Temporarily open the interconnection channels between the two regions and temporarily add supercomputing to assist them." Lin Feng said.

"So do players in other regions want reinforcements?" Minwu-Li asked.

"Similarly, you can apply for reinforcements to the system. At that time, increase the number of servers and increase bandwidth as needed, so that you can save money to the greatest extent!" Lin Feng said.

Everyone was stunned. If you think about it carefully, this is undoubtedly a very good way. It can not only meet the requirements of global interconnection, but also save money to the greatest extent.

"So what about player communication between different cities?" Minwu-Li thought of this question.

"This is simpler, there is ‘qq’, we can embed ‘qq’, then there is no problem at all, and through the ‘qq’ server, we can also save costs!" Lin Feng smiled.

Everyone was stunned.