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Hawk™
Cadet
Joined: July 22, 2003
Posts: 570
From: Lagtopia, Lag system.
|  Posted: 2007-01-17 15:39
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On 2007-01-17 11:11, Lacrosseian wrote:
If you people only knew...
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What they had for dinner?
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-Smokey-
Grand Admiral
Joined: October 22, 2004
Posts: 784
From: Florida
| Posted: 2007-01-17 16:46
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On 2007-01-17 11:11, Lacrosseian wrote:
If you people only knew...
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knew what ? go on........
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Leonide
Grand Admiral
Templar Knights
Joined: October 01, 2005
Posts: 1553
From: Newport News, Virginia
| Posted: 2007-01-17 20:58
knew that only the big F is really the only one working on the game? yeah...i knew that. 
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Faustus
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Palestar
Joined: May 29, 2001
Posts: 2748
From: Austin, Texas
| Posted: 2007-01-17 22:25
I know everyone is anxious about the current status of version 484... so here is the scoop...
I'm about 80% done with a major rollback of the server backend to less fragile and and better system that used UDP packets to transmit ship movements...
DarkSpace was a great experiment in "Deterministic" networking... the experiement is now over. What I mean by this, is I was trying to reduce bandwidth by transmitting only changes in the world to the clients. This system has always been plagued with problems, mostly performance issues.
The upcoming changes move DS to a more traditional networking system that requires much LESS server overhead and work.
You see, currently my servers are CPU bound by the deterministic system in the current version. This means, when you turn your ship, a packet is sent up to the server with a timestamp, if the packet arrives late, the server actually recalculates your ships position back in time, applies the change, then recalculates the updated position of your ship. This has one terrible side effect, a slow client who is sending lots of late packets can actually cause more CPU to be used by the server.
Anyway, I know it sucks to wait forever for an update... but I assure everyone that I will make sure this version is the best ever update of DS.
Cheers,
Richard
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Smartin
Grand Admiral
Joined: August 04, 2005
Posts: 1107
From: Michigan
| Posted: 2007-01-17 22:38
That brought a tear to my eye, and a big smile.
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Enterprise
Chief Marshal
Joined: May 19, 2002
Posts: 2576
From: Hawthorne, Nevada
| Posted: 2007-01-17 22:47
/hug
-Ent
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Supertrooper
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Pitch Black
Joined: March 18, 2004
Posts: 1895
From: Maryland, U.S.A
| Posted: 2007-01-17 23:09
If you where Cheesecake, I'd eat you.
Or something like that.
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-RevenG-
Raven Warriors
Joined: March 03, 2004
Posts: 2673
| Posted: 2007-01-18 00:45
That's good news Richard. I'm glad that things are going decent. Best of luck with finishing the rollback.
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Borgie
Chief Marshal
Pitch Black
Joined: August 15, 2005
Posts: 2256
From: close by
| Posted: 2007-01-18 00:46
best news i heard so far this year
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Sixkiller
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Courageous Elite Commandos
Joined: May 11, 2005
Posts: 1786
From: Netherlands
| Posted: 2007-01-18 01:00
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doda *EP5 no longer exception...*
Grand Admiral
Joined: December 11, 2005
Posts: 1012
From: happy land
| Posted: 2007-01-18 01:59
yay
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Hawk™
Cadet
Joined: July 22, 2003
Posts: 570
From: Lagtopia, Lag system.
| Posted: 2007-01-18 02:17
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On 2007-01-17 22:25, Faustus wrote:
Anyway, I know it sucks to wait forever for an update... but I assure everyone that I will make sure this version is the best ever update of DS.
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I sure hope your right.
[ This Message was edited by: TheEvilHawk on 2007-01-18 02:17 ]
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YIIMM
Grand Admiral
Joined: June 16, 2005
Posts: 851
From: Barcino, Hispania Tarraconensis
| Posted: 2007-01-18 03:20
Thanks for the update, and for your patience with us.
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BLACKHAWK(ENGLAND)
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Joined: March 19, 2006
Posts: 268
From: Manchester, England
| Posted: 2007-01-18 05:29
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On 2007-01-18 00:46, Borgie {On Break} wrote:
best news i heard so far this year
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Ye thats kinda easy when its only been 18 days in the new year but what could u have done in those 18 days thats better than getting good DS news. hmmmm you ate crim's cheesecake, killed evilhawk and got goth to shut up. well lets forget about the last one
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Reeves-81
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Pitch Black
Joined: January 24, 2006
Posts: 141
From: Canada
| Posted: 2007-01-18 06:15
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On 2007-01-17 07:02, Lord DowneyBUM (UK) wrote:
Its due about 5 minutes before everyone resubs.
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Nail on the head, lol.
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