Chapter 119 A number of new technologies
"As of the start of the show, according to the aggregated audience and player voting data on the question, the first question everyone wants to know at the moment is: how many players in the world can this game carry online at the same time?"
"This question is relatively simple, according to the number of users we have received in the early stage of a total of 2.5 billion people applying for public beta accounts, even if there are 2.5 billion players in the world who have game helmets at the moment, due to the time difference and the non-convergence of individuals, the peak of online at the same time will not exceed 50%. In other words, if there are 1.25 billion players online at the same time, it is already a very high concurrency value, which is equivalent to less than 1 person in every 10 people in the world who are in the game, and according to our game brain estimates, there should be no problem at all to meet the 1.25 billion concurrent users. Mr. Tang replied calmly.
"In fact, before the interview, I also guessed a number, which seems to be higher than Mr. Tang's, it seems that no matter how high it is, there is no need to ask it, so let's ask the second question that everyone is concerned about: With so many players flocking in, will the game server crash?" The moderator asked.
"This question is a good question, although I expect a total of 2.5 billion users in the future, but at present, there are only 50.5 million users in the world who have game headsets, and there is no login overload problem at present, even if the total number of users reaches 2.5 billion in the future, these users will be distributed in more than 200 national servers around the world according to the proportion of the population of each country, and these more than 200 national servers are classified in five regions of the world, namely Asia, the Americas, Europe, Africa and Oceania, Since there are two population superpowers in Asia, the Asian region is divided into East Asia and South Asia, the American region is divided into North America and South America according to the topography, and some countries in West Asia and Southeast Asia are divided into the Oceania region with a small population, so strictly speaking, there should be a total of seven major sub-regions in the world. Mr. Tang replied.
"Even so, we have a lot of players in Huaxia, according to one-fifth of the total number of 2.5 billion players, there are 500 million people." The host interjected at the right time.
"That's right, but at present, these 500 million players do not have the possibility of getting game helmets in the early stage, according to the current mass production rate of game helmets, we expect that there will be about 10 million new helmets on the market in China every month, which also effectively plays a role in the diversion of players, with the increase in the mass production speed of game helmets, it is expected that 10 million new helmets may be added every two weeks in the future, that is to say, 500 million domestic players can be covered within two years." Mr. Tang added.
"Okay, then let's ask Mr. Tang a third question: Will these players who enter the game miss some adventures and hidden missions in the game?" The questions raised by the moderator also seem to have been carefully prepared, one link after another.
"Well, the questions you have prepared are very hierarchical, and you don't have to worry too much about this, every new player logs in to the game for the first time, and the novice village they enter will be brand new, and the brain in the game background will automatically collect the new players who log in to the game for the first time in the same time period, and send them to the novice village that has just opened at the same time, at this point it is the same fair for all new players, and even the players who enter later may have a greater harvest than the old players who have opened up the wasteland before after mastering some of the strategies of their predecessors. As for the novice village, these players can't never stay in contact with old players, except for some quests related to the main story that can't be retriggered, the new players' respective quest lines are still independent and new, and there should be no shortage of adventures and hidden quests. ”
"Oh, then I'm relieved, because I just got the game helmet too. The next question I plan to give to the audience who came to the live broadcast room to see what they have to ask Mr. Tang. ”
After the host said, the live camera turned to the audience at the scene, and a man with glasses sitting in the front row raised his hand and got the microphone:
"Mr. Tang, hello! I am Zhao Bin, a reporter for "Online Game Lovers", according to my personal experience and asking players from other camps, each camp seems to have only 8 novice villages with different names, how can such a few novice villages fit hundreds of millions of players in the future? You just mentioned that the game brain will automatically open a new newbie village, which I don't quite understand. ”
"Very good! The question you asked actually involves a new technology we use in the game - [Implicit Mirror Partition Technology], as the name suggests, this technology can be based on the number of logged in players, by the game brain online in the background for overloaded new players to divide a new mirror partition, these partitions are completely hidden from the player, the player does not feel it at all, only need to log in after the normal game. However, all players who have successfully logged in to the game, the next time he logs in to the game, he will enter the mirror partition that he divided last time, although there are only 8 novice villages, but through this technology, the 8 novice villages can be effectively copied, which can effectively divert users and avoid the waste of resources. ”
"Hehe, the fourth question I originally prepared was: how to avoid a situation where there are more people than monsters in the game? It seems that Mr. Tang's answer also answered this question by the way. Host Sun Yanwei said.
"Yes, with this implicit mirror partitioning technology, the resources in the game will be released to the player reasonably, there is no embarrassing situation where there are more people than monsters, and what the player has to do is play with peace of mind. When the number of unfinished players in a mirror novice village is less than 50%, it will be merged with other mirror novice villages in the same period online, and the released server resources will continue to provide new players with a new mirror novice village. Mr. Tang sat there and talked.
"But Mr. Tang, I immediately thought of a new question, as the fifth question: you just said that novice players will release their mirror resources after they walk out of the mirror novice village, so when it comes to the map at the level of towns, isn't there a problem of player congestion?"
"Haha, it looks like you really want to ask me down today! Luckily, I came prepared. When a novice player walks out of the mirror novice village and enters the town-level map, the town itself is larger than the novice village, and the field map is correspondingly wider than the novice village.
"Oh? Moonlight Company is worthy of gathering global development resources, I feel that you have a lot of new technologies, what kind of technology is this time? Sun Yanwei asked.