75 Chapter 469 Breaking Moore's Law

Ruth Alun sat down opposite Lin Feng with a cup of coffee.

"What's wrong, is there anything wrong with Bruce?" Lin Feng asked.

"The boss has a bit of a problem with the computer, I'm afraid things are not as simple as we imagined. Bruce sighed.

"What's wrong?" Lin Feng frowned.

"The boss is still an old problem, and the player's hardware configuration is not enough. Bruce sighed.

"What do you mean? Isn't the relaxation pixel processing data of the player's contract taken over by the level computer now?" Lin Feng asked in surprise.

"It's true that we still underestimate the harsh requirements of "Swordsman Love: Loyal to the Country".

In the wee hours of this morning, the computer was on the verge of a booming load collapse. Bruce said with a frown.

"What's going on?" Lin Feng was startled.

It's still that reason, the player's computer configuration is too "poor", seeing Lin Feng confused.

Bruce hurriedly explained: "With the development of the game, players will gradually grow in the game, and the types of equipment and martial arts they have will increase day by day, as well as the opening of various combo systems, as well as the gradual opening of large-scale missions, the game will have higher and higher requirements for the player's computer configuration." With the current configuration of players, we can only rely on our level computers to run smoothly. ”

Bruce sighed, he didn't expect this game to be so demanding on the computer. After all, Bruce was only a computer hardware burner before, not an online game burner, and he had never played games very little, so he underestimated the harsh requirements of computer hardware for "Swordsman Love: Loyal to the Country".

"Boss, theoretically, based on the online rate of today's 10,000 players, the load rate of the computer at the level of Jian Shao is ideal, which can leave sufficient resources to prevent the geometric multiplication of data traffic and 3D pixel image data generated by more than 100,000 players on the same map when starting a large mission. Bruce explained in detail.

Lin Feng listened and nodded repeatedly. Nowadays, the player's computer is really "poor", and with the progress of the game, the player's various martial arts increase, in the large-scale battle, especially the epic battle later, the data traffic generated at that moment will be 1000 hard disk capacity unit "x dumb" dish Zi BYO1 bar mouth byte a Chinese character occupies 2 bytes to calculate, although there is "cloud computing", but it is also a severe test for the "second shijie" level computer.

In particular, the generated three-dimensional pixel image data is multiplied geometrically. It is absolutely impossible for the player's computer to be loaded, so it can only rely on the "second shijie" level computer. But now that the load of the three computers has reached the point of absence, once a large-scale battle begins, the three computers are bound to collapse.

"And the boss, I carefully calculated that the load of 4 computers is ideal, and it is ideal to produce 10,000 online players, and after this number, every 20,000 more players will have to increase x number of computers, so that the cost performance will be very cost-effective. Bruce said helplessly, seeing Lin Fengzhi, he frowned and comforted: "If the player's computer can be upgraded, whether it is to add a memory module or change to a better graphics card, if it can be collectively upgraded, the load capacity of the computer will be improved." ”

Bruce's words are not difficult to understand. As the number of online players increases, the load on your computer is more than just 20,000 more players. Rather, it's the data traffic of tens of thousands of players.

To put it simply, the original Songtai-level computer can load the traffic of 10,000 players, but for every 10,000 more players, for the level computer, it is not only the additional calculation of the data of x million players, but also the data generated between the original bar o 10,000 players and the x million players. In this way, the data traffic is definitely multiplied.

As the philosophy says, when the "quantity" reaches a certain level, the "qualitative" change occurs.

And Liwan players are the critical point of 4 computers.

Now "Swordsman Love: Loyal to the Country" is only 3 computers, not to mention the load of 10,000 players, even if it is the load of the existing 10,000 players, it is a bit reluctant. Now, "Swordsman Love: Loyal to the Country" must add one level computer before many players start a large-scale battle mission, otherwise the three level computers will definitely crash by then.

However, in addition to the time it takes, the more important thing to add a computer is money. Four computers can load 10,000 players, and the average price of a computer is now around 10,000 US dollars, and four is worth 10,000 US dollars, which is close to the introduction of B yuan. The hardware investment is as high as 300 million yuan, and the monthly additional cost of rent, water, electricity, and labor is also about x million yuan. It's too costly.

According to Qiu Xin's plan, "Swordsman Love: The Spirit of Loyalty to the Country" will adopt a point card charging system, similar to "Legend", "Wu Yuan when doing divination." Converted, "the hour point card is about equal to Wang Yuan." However, it is calculated according to such a fee standard. Mountain: "Players are now popular in "Swordsman Love: Loyal to the Country", and there is no problem with the small number of places online.

Then, the point card charge for x players per day is 2 yuan, and the force of 10,000 players will create a gross profit for the "second shijie" for a total of 4 yuan a month. In addition to taxes and fixed monthly expenses, the net profit of about one month is more than 10,000 yuan.

But even with such an astonishing profit, it will take at least a few months to recover the hardware cost of 300 million yuan. But fortunately, the game life of "Swordsman Love: Loyal to the Country" is definitely more than the old month.

But all this is just theoretical data, but in practice, there is a lot of trouble.

First of all, the game setting of "Swordsman Love: Loyal to the Country" canceled the setting of "adding blood and adding demons" to ordinary online games. Players who are injured in the game do not have any medicines that can directly add blood, except for items such as gold sore medicine to stop bleeding and treat external injuries.

After all, there is no such medicine in China, in order to restore a real martial arts shijie Qiu Xin also imitated and canceled this setting that can directly add blood.

The same goes for internal forces. Internal injuries can be treated with medicines, and the external player's internal strength is empty, and they can only recover slowly by "meditating" or auto-healing.

Although this setting makes most players a little uncomfortable, it is very fresh and interesting, and it also reduces the existence of players who are crazy about taking medicine than not having a little jishu content, and relying on more medicine, "Swordsman Love: Loyal to the Country" pays more attention to operability than before, and to a certain extent, weakens the impact of RMB players on destroying the balance of the game.

However, there are also corresponding players who have a lot of time in the game to "meditate" and recover their internal strength, and the crazy point cards of Chinese players for the game will definitely not be able to meet the needs of players, and they will definitely call for the "second shijie" to launch a monthly card.

Although the charm of "Second Shijie" will not launch a monthly card "Swordsman Love: Loyal to the Country", it will also force players to continue the game, but Lin Feng's concept of running "Second Shijie" is to build a game empire. If you want to build a game empire, you must have a large number of loyal players, which is also doomed in disguise, Lin Feng can't be like other online game companies, barbaric and rude listing to make money, and then regardless of the interests of players, the game operation will be changed to another game and continue to operate. It's so amazing that it's been buried, and even the name of the company has been changed.

This kind of hastily made games and rushed to the market is one of the fundamental reasons why there are few independent games in the domestic game market today. The "second shijie" must not go down this path.

Therefore, if Lin Feng wants to take care of the interests of domestic gamers, he will inevitably launch a monthly card, and the price of the monthly card must not be too high, and its direct impact is the decline in profits. There is also a large number of assembly-level computers, which will inevitably take away the liquidity of the "second shijie" concubine, which is also a hidden danger.

"Can Bruce find a way to increase the load capacity of the class computer?" Lin Feng asked expectantly.

"Boss, unless we prescribe our own computer operating system, the performance will be about improved, after all, the current computer operating system we use is based on the operating system I used for an entertainment company, and it is slightly adapted, which is not suitable for the actual use of the current company. Bruce thought for a moment and said.

"However, the boss of this operating system also knows that with our company's existing jishuliliang, he can't do research on his own, so he can only hope that Kevin will steal the information of other company-level computers. But it takes time and patience to go unnoticed. "Of course, there's a Moore's Law in the computer world, which is that every old month, computer performance doubles, and then our server load doubles." ”

Lin Feng frowned, and waited for the old month to let the player's computer automatically upgrade, which obviously didn't know what Lin Feng wanted, and after pondering for a while, he said hesitantly.

"In this way, Bruce, you continue to build the computer, try to make improvements in the operating system, and as for the player hardware, I'll figure it out. "Moore's Law. The old month cycle is too long, and I want to change the cycle of "Moore's Law." Lin Feng said slowly but firmly.

It seems that it is time to chat with several major computer hardware manufacturers in the industry.

In the past, he didn't have the strength, but now the popularity of "Swordsman Love: Loyal to the Country" and the players' madness about it, Lin Feng believes that "Swordsman Love: Loyal to the Country" can definitely bring players' demand for computer hardware performance, driven by profits, Lin Feng does not believe that these computer manufacturers will not be moved.

Bruce was slightly stunned, and he didn't know how Lin Feng could break the "Moore's Law", but for now, he did his job first and assembled more computers. Anyway, computers don't become obsolete as quickly as PCs.