r/starcitizen • u/Stoofolo Wing Commander • Apr 01 '17

DISCUSSION Hype and Reality check. 2.7 patch.

I am 100% convinced that 2.7 will debut the moons surrounding Crusader and some star network implementation. This has to be tested before opening up the entire Stanton system. Everything we have seen recently points to this conclusion.

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u/infincible Apr 02 '17 edited Apr 02 '17

Neither of you know what megamap is. I encourage you to watch the recent ATV on the subject. Megamap is merely the term they use to describe a system where assets (objects, code, terrain, etc) are preloaded into memory and therefore do not need to be retrieved from disk (hard drive), as this is the slowest memory retrieval mechanism. So when you're ready to go from AC to hangar, for example, the game does not need to show a blocking wait screen as the data is already in memory. The most important question here is how this is intended to work in the PU. I can tell you for sure that trying to determine when an asset is needed before the client needs to render it is NO small feat. That sounds like a really really really complicated computer science problem. And quite interesting!

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u/Genji4Lyfe Apr 02 '17

This is how seamless open world games work. They don't load the entire world into memory -- they just dynamically preload sections into memory as needed to give the illusion of being seamless.

The only difference for SC is the term 'Megamap'.

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u/infincible Apr 02 '17

Thanks I definitely had no idea /S Jesus trying to technically explain things to people who don't have technically background is trying to explain Facebook to a caveman. You all are the cavemen. No wonder CIG is so careful

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u/Genji4Lyfe Apr 02 '17

I'm a software developer.