Very cool article on sync issues in RTS

[Bringa]

Here's a dev diary from one of the developers of Sins of a Solar Empire (an awesome game in its own right, if you didn't know ;P):

http://forums.sinsofasolarempire.com/?aid=331090

Lots of interesting (to me, at least!) insight on the anatomy of sync issues. I imagine a lot of stuff like separate deterministic and non-deterministic RNGs are hidden from mod-makers in the case of Civ4. I also imagine that Kael and the gang know most of these things, but I just found the article very interesting on a purely non-pragmatic level.

 

[xienwolf]

RTS and TBS are very different beasts. If I stumble across it again, there is a huge article on how Sync works for Civ specifically. As for our random numbers, there are only 2 types of random numbers available for use in Civ because you need to ensure that everyone is on the same seed and will produce the same random numbers.

 

[rocklikeafool]

Hmm...interestin...I've no clue wat they mean half the time...but watever...