Universe size

[Wolverines527]

Hi im not sure if this was suggested or not but im going to explain this as best as possible so please bear with me on this.


As far as i can tell the game has an unlimited universe you can explore while that is amazing it murders the fps on a computer unless schine makes its own server

But for private servers like on single players or a self owned server you may need to make a limited sized server that allows a more stable gaming platform for the current game and can be allowed to add size to servers as the game gets updated and requires less memory per block.

 

[JonasWalker]

It would be nice for server owners to set a maximum radius that players can travel from the main galaxy center. As you mentioned it'd make servers a bit easier to run and is a quite popular mod for Minecraft SMP for those very reasons.

 

[Crusade]

Yes the game has a practically unlimited universe - however it only generates/load what it needs (the sectors you're in and adjacent to)
If your computer is having trouble running the game, allocate more memory, lower pirate spawn rates, and allocate more CPU threads to segment generation.

When you play singleplayer, your PC starts up it's own private, or local server to connect to - performance loss is expected, but it should not make the game unplayable given you have adequate hardware and correct settings.

 

[Wolverines527]

Yes the game has a practically unlimited universe - however it only generates/load what it needs (the sectors you're in and adjacent to)
If your computer is having trouble running the game, allocate more memory, lower pirate spawn rates, and allocate more CPU threads to segment generation.

When you play singleplayer, your PC starts up it's own private, or local server to connect to - performance loss is expected, but it should not make the game unplayable given you have adequate hardware and correct settings.

I was able to play quite well i thought of this because even if its unloaded there still needs to be a minimal amount of memory used other wise how would the game know things were in that sector other wise things would start deleting as soon as you left that sector logically speaking.

And after reading that minecraft had to do this in order to improve its playabilty i figured mentioning may or may not help

 

[Crusade]

When you leave a sector, after 20 seconds by default it's written to your hard drive and unloaded from memory completely.

 

[Erth Paradine]

Game automatically unloads a sector when you're far enough away. When it needs to load that sector again, the game engine first checks to see if there's any sector data on disk, if so it loads that. If there is no data on disk, then the game engine procedurally generates your sector information using a unique seed file found at server-database/world0/.seed There's no evidence that the game engine tracks sector information when sectors are unloaded, other than simple storage of relevant data on disk, and not in RAM.

For instance, on a fairly popular server (ours) our world consumes ~40GB of disk space, ~8GB of RAM (daily average), and has over 85,000 unique database entities (not counting the ~2267 unique playerstate+playercharacter file combinations).

 

[JonasWalker]

Yes the game has a practically unlimited universe - however it only generates/load what it needs (the sectors you're in and adjacent to)
If your computer is having trouble running the game, allocate more memory, lower pirate spawn rates, and allocate more CPU threads to segment generation.

When you play singleplayer, your PC starts up it's own private, or local server to connect to - performance loss is expected, but it should not make the game unplayable given you have adequate hardware and correct settings.

By having a radius limit Server admins can set it'd also help prevent people from running off to other galaxies and never interacting in the first place. I still maintain the multi-galaxy thing is a silly gimmick purely done for marketing and really needs to be dropped in favor of having just one that can be scaled to whatever size is (within reason) desired.