Hey everyone!
I'd love to see Schema keep optimizing their engine so that it works smoother. I know that voxel based games tend to make a lot of calculations. I also know that many people don't have supercomputers or gaming beasts that can calculate gajillions of times a second. Most consumer laptops only have between 1.7 and 5.0 GHz processing speed and rarely more than dual-core processors.
In order to allow people like me to fully enjoy a seamless Starmade experience, I would love to see this game engine save as many calculations as possible. In my experience with programming, a simple boolean function used properly may save you at least five times the execution time, so if 50,000 calculations take a second, and you cut that down by just 20%, you can do 6 seconds of calculations in only 5 seconds. It may not seem like much, but in a voxel game like Starmade where only 20% of an enormous ship is visible at a time, it really adds up.
While I understand that a game engine is a very complex thing, optimizations can also benefit those people with franken-computers who wish to build ships that can fit a whole solar system inside, as it will extraordinarily reduce their lag. Overall, optimizations benefit every player, especially players who do not have top of the line laptops; which is the larger majority of the playerbase. I believe the general rule is that only 10% of any population contains the vast majority of the quality/lack thereof, while the remaining 90% is about equal to eachother/average. I do not doubt this holds true of people with frankencomputers and people with tinfoil computers.
My 2 year old computer is about average for a consumer computer and the ones available at supermarkets are basically the same computers they sold 2 years ago, updated with Windows 8 and the latest junkware. Please consider using octrees and improved algorithms so that consumer laptops can play this game without major issues. I don't want you to bend over backwards for people still running windows 98. I would like you to consider the average joe who buys an average computer.
Thanks so much for reading!
P.S.
I'm just a little whiny because I actually want to buy this game, but can't build anything bigger than 200x300 without lagging. I had the same issue with minecraft until I discovered optifine which made the game playable on my computer (Starcraft already plays better than default Minecraft)
/rant, /request
I'd love to see Schema keep optimizing their engine so that it works smoother. I know that voxel based games tend to make a lot of calculations. I also know that many people don't have supercomputers or gaming beasts that can calculate gajillions of times a second. Most consumer laptops only have between 1.7 and 5.0 GHz processing speed and rarely more than dual-core processors.
In order to allow people like me to fully enjoy a seamless Starmade experience, I would love to see this game engine save as many calculations as possible. In my experience with programming, a simple boolean function used properly may save you at least five times the execution time, so if 50,000 calculations take a second, and you cut that down by just 20%, you can do 6 seconds of calculations in only 5 seconds. It may not seem like much, but in a voxel game like Starmade where only 20% of an enormous ship is visible at a time, it really adds up.
While I understand that a game engine is a very complex thing, optimizations can also benefit those people with franken-computers who wish to build ships that can fit a whole solar system inside, as it will extraordinarily reduce their lag. Overall, optimizations benefit every player, especially players who do not have top of the line laptops; which is the larger majority of the playerbase. I believe the general rule is that only 10% of any population contains the vast majority of the quality/lack thereof, while the remaining 90% is about equal to eachother/average. I do not doubt this holds true of people with frankencomputers and people with tinfoil computers.
My 2 year old computer is about average for a consumer computer and the ones available at supermarkets are basically the same computers they sold 2 years ago, updated with Windows 8 and the latest junkware. Please consider using octrees and improved algorithms so that consumer laptops can play this game without major issues. I don't want you to bend over backwards for people still running windows 98. I would like you to consider the average joe who buys an average computer.
Thanks so much for reading!
P.S.
I'm just a little whiny because I actually want to buy this game, but can't build anything bigger than 200x300 without lagging. I had the same issue with minecraft until I discovered optifine which made the game playable on my computer (Starcraft already plays better than default Minecraft)
/rant, /request
