rlefebvre · HackerTrans

I understand that you consider bitcoin to be sht and do not want it. It seems enough people have confidence in its mechanisms though. So that would be scarcity+confidence that gives it its value. But the same thing happens with the next crypto currency (your neighbors' sht) so maybe it is worth nothing after all. Not taking a stance, just trying to understand.

rlefebvre

9 lat temudiscuss

It is the scarcity that creates the 'value'. Unless everybody walks away from the idea that it is worth something (may happen), then its value is still driven by how difficult it is to create some.

rlefebvre

10 lat temudiscuss

I am always surprised how people care about the language of implementation so much. The data structure is interesting by itself. Why should we care what this is built with?

rlefebvre

10 lat temudiscuss

Also,the "hot water pipe freezes first" is a popular "myth" (turns out it may be true). This has happened to me and the plumber seemed to take that for a fact despite not having a reasonable explanation.

rlefebvre

10 lat temudiscuss

It may be worth noting that minor versions are not strictly compatible but generally require some dev work.

rlefebvre

12 lat temudiscuss

This last link is a gem. They refer to the TRIBES Networking Model in the talk, explained here also: http://gamedevs.org/uploads/tribes-networking-model.pdf

There is a beautiful implementation of this in the old OpenTNL that seems to be still alive in the newer Torque engine: https://github.com/GarageGames/Torque2D/tree/master/engine/s...

The original article does not discuss the aspect of scaling fast-paced games to handle large numbers of replicated objects and players under constrained network conditions but I found the approach proposed in the original TRIBES model to be the most (only?) credible so far. I don't see support for this in any of the popular, modern network libraries (RakNet, enet, lidgren, ...). They all seem to have taken the 'multiple reliable channels' direction but that just doesn't seem to scale to many connected players the way the TRIBES model does.

I would love to hear from anyone who has had experience with that!

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