When will we see LAN support? :0

Discussion in 'Ideas and Suggestions' started by Stian Aarskaug, Mar 26, 2015.

  1. Occam's Razer

    Occam's Razer
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    It has a few annoying tendencies. The main one being that searches are automatically ordered by recency, rather than by relevance.

    It can, but it varies. If it's a new topic of conversation, yes. If it's been mentioned at any point remotely recently, most often comments point to the search bar (and get increasingly aggressive with each new thread). As stated above, this is only mildly helpful advice.

    Your other points I fully agree on.
     
  2. Stian Aarskaug

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    I think that would be extremely hard. First, they would need to get a hardware manufacturer interested. The research and development costs would propably be great. And the sales potential? Not big, and probably not big enough to justify a production line of this. Not even kick-starter as there wouldn't be a large enough use for it. Basicly the only one I can think of is BeamNG.drive and server market (making connected computing networks). It seems that for computation network controllers is enough.

    There are many unknown factors here. Moving the data from the PCI-E bus many meters is a challenge, and I don't know how the standard would work with this.

    If we were to think this out realistically, we'd rather turn to established standards. One good candidate being USB 3.1 (10GT/s which is ten times more than a cat. 5e cable can transfer). The most crucial point here would be latency, and I'm just not sure if there's controller cards with especially low latency. It all comes down to how big input lag you can accept, and in a driving game I'd say that line is pretty low.


    I second this. You don't need to hire anyone, virtually no forum does that.

    But it's important that the moderators can be trusted and are repectful and fair. Someone ought to make a thread about that, and maybe they'll throw up moderation positions people can apply to.
     
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