Progress has been made!
Of course, I still feel like there is a mountain of work left to be done. Still got 19 features/bugs to do in v0.2. While 3 of those are in the testing phase, 16 features/bugs is a lot.
Last night we set a new record for number of people on the alpha server. There were 4. Not that many, I know, and I accounted for 3 of those (desktop+2 laptops). However, the server wasn’t even breaking a sweat. It was running at 1-15% CPU usage. I’m guessing, it could support 20ish players in the state it is in now. There is a bit of overhead for each player, and some quick optimizations should be able to fix that. Also, the alpha server is only a P3.
I do wish I knew more about how the big guys run their MMORPGs– server-wise. I mean, I’m planning on a single processor supporting about 100 players. I think that’s a pretty realistic goal, and a dual-quad core server would theoretically support 800 players. Not too shabby. We’ll see if it works. A blade enclosure with 8 blades, each with dual-quad cores could therefore support 6400 players, and a rack full (4 enclosures I think) 25600 players. Cool.. Even at 20 players per processor, that’s still 5120 players for about $120k of hardware. Granted, quad core procs aren’t available just yet, but neither is MV3D. 
I’m currently working on connecting multiple areas together. It is mostly working, there is just an annoying bug or 10. Once it works, though, I’ll be able to do some cool tests with several times the world size I have now. It takes about 1-2 minutes to cross the world at this point.
I have been putting off the rest of the redundnacy/failover stuff lately in favor of gateways (connecting areas). I’ll have to get back to that soon though.
The avatars now act fairly realistically… err.. umm.. well, fairly similarly to other games. Not realistic, I suppose, but just what people are used to.
One final thing, a screen shot:
I can’t recall if that is 50 or 100 avatars standing in a line, but it’s still cool either way.
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