player fighting games), and completely useless for something like Stonehearth where itвЂ™s extremely impractical to вЂњroll backвЂќ the server state.ДЇor a game like Stonehearth you need something called вЂњclient side predictionвЂќ. ItвЂ™s designed for (and useful for) a very different thing (e.g. ItвЂ™d create the illusion of вЂњlag freeвЂќ (even now on single player) which currently doesnвЂ™t exist.

making hearthings walk faster to catch up to where they should be, etc). If the game was designed for multi-player then the client would pretend the hearthings stop moving in the wrong direction (and/or maybe start moving in a вЂњguessed hopefully rightвЂќ direction) as soon as you issue the вЂњmove to locationвЂќ command (before it sends command to server), and then when it gets updated pathing info from server the client will try to hide the difference between what it displayed/predicted and the new pathing info (e.g. Now youвЂ™re looking at 200 ms to > 2.2 seconds of lag before the game responds to your command.

When a game (Stonehearth) is not designed for it from the start and isnвЂ™t tested under those conditions during development you end up with the вЂњdo significant (expensive) changes or forget multiplayerвЂќ choice where most developers choose to forget multi-player because вЂњprofit 100 ms before the server knows you gave the вЂњmove to locationвЂќ command, it takes twice as long for hearthlings to react (because thereвЂ™s twice as much CPU load), and then it takes another > 100 ms before server can tell the client a hearthling started moving. ItвЂ™s entirely possible if the game is designed for it from the start, and if the game is tested under these conditions during development. Nobody sees any latency there, I believe if Team Radiant followed the same model with todays tech they could easily do it. Supreme commander forged alliance (on FAF) is a prime example of having 12 players direct connected to each other with thousands of units and you get a smooth game even when you have 350ms ping to some players. I donвЂ™t think itвЂ™ll be too bad actually, I play another game online that you would have thought wouldnвЂ™t be possible on such scales but it is.

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