Chapter 110: Grow the team
The reason why a product has to invite users to test it before is mainly to know their habits and ideas. Developers of a product look at the product from the developer's point of view, they are just developers, not users, so they usually can't think about the problem from the user's point of view, maybe they think a very simple operation or concept, but they can't understand and accept it from the user's point of view.
After the first batch of 35 residents moved in, Han Feng received hundreds of suggestions and BuG feedback reports, ranging from improving walking posture to setting up a company in the future.
Many of them saw the prospect of Han Feng and asked when Han Feng would establish the company, and what conditions would be required if they wanted to join the development and operation team?
Han Feng is indeed a person now, and he can't be busy at all, so he must be looking for a partner, but he will not be so rash when choosing a partner, and idlers will definitely not raise it, Han Feng did not give them an answer so quickly, so far, he has promised Xian Yezi to join alone.
Others, for the time being, joined as volunteers, such as "General", who specializes in creating functional tests, and "Cocomi", a customer service representative who is responsible for collecting suggestions from everyone or helping to answer everyone's questions.
Now I have found a lot of problems, and the version is not perfect, so Han Feng has been busy improving the functions in the upgrade.
First of all, an important issue is the configuration requirements, which many residents react to. After running the client, a window suddenly pops up, and there will be a problem, and it will not work properly at all.
This is the reason why this happens. This is because the residents' computer configuration does not meet the minimum requirements for the operation of the Six Degrees client, and their computer graphics cards cannot keep up with the computing algorithms used by the Six Degrees client. This is the habitual thinking at work, originally Han Feng thought that the society has developed to the present, everyone's computer upgrade work should be quite common, but I didn't expect that there are professionals using the classic machine, which shows that the classic machine still accounts for a large proportion in the market.
As a result, Han Feng had to improve the algorithm and reduce the configuration of the computer running the client. The computer configuration is low, and the graphics display effect will be reduced at most, but the success of the operation must be guaranteed.
With the selfless help of these zealous residents. Six Degrees Space has been upgraded very quickly in both the server framework and the client, and the server framework has been 3 in just a few days. 0 version, the client is updated more frequently, sometimes two or three versions may be released in a day.
In terms of details, Han Feng hasn't put too much thought into it. Except for beautifying the initial appearance of the male and female characters under the strong request of Xian Yezi, the others did not move, because it was not yet time. Even if you do it now, you will have to redesign it in the end, and then you will waste a lot of energy.
Editing and creating functions are the top priorities of the Six Degrees Space project, and Han Feng's main focus is on this, and now that people are in, Han Feng has to give them the tools to create.
The external programming interface of Six Degrees is also the focus, and it can be said that those technicians care more about this than other functions. Because that's the landmark feature, with the programming function, they can do a lot of amazing things.
Originally, according to the suggestions of those technicians, it is best to support multiple languages at the same time for programming interfaces, but it is difficult to achieve this function, and the threshold for those high-level languages is also high, and few ordinary people understand such high-level languages. Therefore, Han Feng did not adopt this suggestion, and he finally designed a scripting language specifically for "six dimensions of space" programming, that is, "6D language", which is a scripting language that does not need to be pre-compiled, and can be interpreted and executed like html and jacascript.
The syntax of the 6D language is quite simple, and many of the main functions are encapsulated into functions in the system, which can be called by writing a few lines of code in the 6D language using a fixed format.
The reason for this is also for the sake of future residents. Han Feng doesn't want programming interfaces to be just the preserve of professionals, he wants more people to participate in this world, even the elderly and children, who will definitely not bother to learn a high-level programming language, but this scripting language is much easier than high-level languages, can be quickly used, and can write a lot of enviable effects. Of course, this scripting language also has advanced features, which require more complex programming skills and creativity, and advanced features are for programmers.
The whole project has been developed by Han Feng alone so far, and his efficiency has amazed the residents, because many teams have not reached this level, they have become very interested in Han Feng, and have expressed their desire to meet him in real life, but Han Feng has temporarily refused because the current time is not enough, but he agreed that after the first official version of the Six Degrees Space comes out, a party will be held in Beijing.
"Six Degrees Space" is indeed a revolutionary product, the virtual world proposed by this product, and the virtual world of the previous online games is very different, there is no monster killing and upgrading, focusing on the relationship between people and people, here is very close to the real world, but it is not a simple simulation of real life, here, everyone's creativity and imagination have been greatly exerted.
When the "General" in the "six degrees of space", with small parts "manufacturing" a super-large sniper rifle, and after the video was posted on the video website, the "six degrees of space" product for the first time really showed in front of the public, before that, "six degrees of space" was only popular in the small ***.
The video of the "General" is quite shocking, the entire sniper rifle is assembled from tiny small parts, although this gun does not play a real role, can only be used as an ornament, but it conveys to everyone that "the world can create its own amazing objects" message, as long as you have imagination, as long as you have the technology, you can create your own things, the elasticity is quite large.
People who see this video are asking, what kind of game is "Six Degrees of Space" and how can I play this game?
And the residents of "Six Degrees Space" also began to react at this time, and some friends wanted to come in to play, asking Han Feng to open more invitation places.
Strictly speaking, the first batch of residents are all friends of Han Feng, and they are relatively professional, it is difficult to say that they are players, Han Feng invited them to come, mainly to better assist in the improvement of the "Six Degrees Space", so, Han Feng agreed, he increased the number of invitations for each person to ten, and the newly registered residents also have this invitation privilege.
At this time, the viral diffusion effect of the invitation system began to manifest, one person can invite ten, and ten people are a hundred...... This is an increase in the geometric progression. Of course, in the beginning, these invitations will not be fully utilized, but this does not matter, on the contrary, restricting registration to a certain extent can also give residents who have already obtained an account a psychological "sense of superiority", which can become their capital to show off to others. It's actually a marketing ploy, I'm in this circle, and you're not, so I'm going to be a little bit "taller" than you.
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As the number of people online increased, new problems began to arise in the Six Degrees space. For example, the residents held their first residents' gathering in the Six Degrees Space, but when the number of people who arrived at the venue exceeded 50, suddenly the items could not be refreshed, and the residents were disconnected en masse. Later, according to Han Feng's detection, it was found that the network of some residents filtered large data packets, and local data packet loss also occurred. In the next version, Hanfeng improved the network communication algorithm and corrected this BuG.
In addition, the number of people has increased, data exchange has increased, and the pressure on servers has also begun to increase, and both operational efficiency and storage can no longer meet the requirements at this stage.
Hanfeng can only increase the number of servers to alleviate the pressure caused by the increase in numbers. So, he went back to the computer market to assemble two other servers, and in consideration of data security, he upgraded the previous system again, and the hard disk was made a disk array (RaID).
There are too many details to refine and consider, Han Feng feels that he is a little too busy alone, and he is thinking that it is time to strengthen the technical team. He didn't have too high a lot of requirements for a new technology partner, just a few details that he could refine so that he could focus on the development of the core modules.
And at this time, that is, after the "Six Degrees Space" officially ran for about a week, someone came to Han Feng with his product and gave him an unexpected surprise.