Scalability Of MMORPG System

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Scalability Of MMORPG System

• 2003.11.19
• Taeho kim
• thkim_at_cosmos.kaist.ac.kr

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Content

• Motivation
• Problem Definition
• Approach
• Reference

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Motivation

• The need for more simultaneous users in the same
  zone increases
• Current of max simultaneous users is about 5000
  users per a zone
• How about One city (country) on a zone or
  20,00050,000 per a zone

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Problem Definition

• Is It possible that a system can support
  20,00050,000 on a zone in Massive multiple
  online game

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Approach

• Current Structure Zone (support 5,000)
• Compare Lineage vs Wish
• Contact with system engineers on Lineage, ultima
  online and Wish interview, email

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Zone Structure
User
Zone2
Zone1
Charater1
Charater2
Charater3
Charater1
Charater2
Charater3
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Remark

• Contact point to Lineage(Ncsoft)
• Possible if some bottlenecks or problems on
  current system are solved
• If possible, the game will be a new cyberworld
• - new jobs (game admin, game master)
• - cyber money vs real money
• - cyber relation vs real relation
• - war game (military simulation)
• - cyberlife vs reallife

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References

• http//www.zeroc.com
• http//www.wish.com