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Dick_Justice · 03-26-2006, 02:59 PM

What makes you say that ?

Recent MMORPGs have shown that their servers can handle up to 5000 players on a server, quite routinely.

EVE Online I believe even has up to 15000 players on one server, so thats not the real problem.

It only really starts becomming an issue when you have to many people in a certain area, thats when lags start occuring.

Another potential problem, and that might be what you were heading at, is that real-time combat, as in FPS is far more difficult to handle then semi-round based combat featured in most MMORPGs. But I believe, that if you manage to combine elements of both FPS and RPG games into the combat system, that it would be quite possible to create such a game...

03-26-2006, 02:59 PM	#9 (permalink)
Dick_Justice Major Join Date: Oct 2002 Location: Marl, Germany Posts: 3,350	What makes you say that ? Recent MMORPGs have shown that their servers can handle up to 5000 players on a server, quite routinely. EVE Online I believe even has up to 15000 players on one server, so thats not the real problem. It only really starts becomming an issue when you have to many people in a certain area, thats when lags start occuring. Another potential problem, and that might be what you were heading at, is that real-time combat, as in FPS is far more difficult to handle then semi-round based combat featured in most MMORPGs. But I believe, that if you manage to combine elements of both FPS and RPG games into the combat system, that it would be quite possible to create such a game... __________________ Plays BF 2 in Europe under the name of \"Erich_Felsner\"