Karel <maartens@home.nl> wrote:
> Starwar is an free online multiplayer space strategy game. As a player
> (Faction), you interact with thousands (i hope) of other players (Factions)
> in the quest for galactic dominance.
Looks cool! When do you expect it to start?
Have you thought of ...
... scalability, will the servers be capable of handling thousands of
clients? (like, Planetarion got more popular than anyone would
imagine, and the servers couldn't handle the load for a period.
Optimization work tends to be done only after it becomes obvious that
it's needed, and stress tests often fail to reproduce "real" load)
... the significant risk that most of the players joining over the
last days probably will forget all about the game before it starts or
at least before it ends? (I was working on some similar project, and
normally only around 10% of the players would be active all through
the game - it helped a bit to have email scripts telling people that
the game had started and/or restarted and/or that x days of inactivity
was detected - but since you don't collect email addresses, you can't
do that...
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