[Vegastrike-devel] New ideas, yur thoughts?

[matthew p. <rog...@co...>]

 im still in chicago typing on this ^&*)=CC=D8=8C pocket pc, so ill =
copy/paste the idea i was working on. It's not fully formed/finished, =
but i  _think_ it covers the basics
Feedback and ideas are wanted

Distributed universe procesing proposal:

Reasons:

   =B0p2p would have a complexity of with 6 clients 15 connections, a =
centralized server has a complexity of 1-1.
  =B0a centralized server will not be able to track thousands of =
objects, in many different star systems. ...although  maybe deep blue =
could
   =B0the standard linux kernel doesn't allow infinate connections, so a =
centralized server would still be only able to support N users.=20

Benefits:
  =B0the more servers running, the larger the possible static universe.
  =B0not as high complexity (connection wise) as p2p
 =20
Benefits / drawback - inbetweens:
  =B0no master server
  =B0may be hard to implement


Drawbacks:
  =B0more connections than a centralized server, but less strain on any =
single server


Complexity:
  high

Abstract:

Distributed Universe procesing, storage, and state tracking.

  parts:
   =B0Hub servers
   =B0sector servers.

A hub server would control the connections between other hub servers, =
clients, and clients to sector servers.

A sector server would give prcessing power where it is needed, and track =
miscellaneous data about a sector (news, certain objects(players,special =
items, planets, whatever may need more prcessing time))

A hub server would hold 1 connection per sector server connected, 1 =
connection to each client in that star system, one connection for each =
"touching" hub server.

Jump points can be the connections between the hub servers.=20

A sector server would do the procesing of client/item physics for that =
portion of the sector. likely to be planets, stations, anamalious, =
items, mobiles, players in need of tracking.

A sector server will track whatever it can, likely to be "fixed" around =
a planet, trying to only track what is around it, or what the hub says =
needs to be tracked that no other sector server is willing to.