Rebirth of the Evil Life

75 Chapter Four Hundred and Sixty IX Breaking Moore's Law

Ruth Allen sat opposite Lin Feng with a cup of coffee. all in

"What's the matter, Bruce, is there a problem?" Lin Feng asked.

"Boss, there is something wrong with the supercomputer. I'm afraid things are not as simple as we thought." Bruce said with a sigh.

"What's wrong?" Lin Feng frowned.

"Boss, it's still an old problem. The player's hardware configuration is not enough." Bruce said with a sigh.

"What do you mean? Isn't the supercomputer taking over the pixel processing data requested by players now?" Lin Feng asked in surprise.

"Indeed, but we still underestimated the harsh requirements of "Swordsman Love: Devotion to the Country".

In the early hours of this morning, the supercomputer had reached the verge of collapse due to its heavy load. said Bruce, frowning.

"What's going on here?" Lin Feng was startled.

"It's still the same reason, the player's computer configuration is too "poor". Seeing that Lin Feng was confused.

Bruce quickly explained, "With the development of the game, players will gradually grow up in the game, and the types of equipment and martial arts they possess will increase day by day, as well as the opening of various "combo systems" and the gradual opening of large-scale missions. Players' computer configuration requirements will be higher and higher. With the current configuration of players, if you want to run smoothly, you can only rely on our super computer. "

Bruce sighed, he didn't expect this game to be so demanding on computer configuration. After all, Bruce was just a computer hardware enthusiast before, not an online game enthusiast. He had never played online games, and there were very few games, so he underestimated the harsh requirements of "Swordsman Love: Serving the Country" on computer hardware.

"Boss, theoretically speaking, with the current online rate of 10,000 players, Bladeshao's super computer load rate is relatively ideal, so that God can leave sufficient resources to prevent more than 100,000 players at the same time when a large task is started. The geometrically multiplied data flow and three-dimensional pixel image data generated in a map." Bruce explained in detail.

Lin Feng listened and nodded repeatedly. Nowadays, the player's computer is really "poor" and as the game progresses, the various martial arts of the player increase. In large-scale battles, especially the epic battles that follow, the data traffic generated at that moment will be measured in units of thousands of hard drives. "x dumb" is 1 byte, and a Chinese character takes 2 bytes to calculate. Although there is "cloud computing", it is also a severe test for super computers in the "second world".

In particular, when the three-dimensional pixel image data generated,

It is a geometric multiplication. It is absolutely impossible for the player's computer to be overloaded, and they can only rely on the "second world" super computer. But now the load of the three supercomputers has already reached the limit, and once the big battle starts, the three supercomputers are bound to collapse.

"Also, Boss, I have carefully calculated that it is ideal for a single-level computer to load more than 10,000 online players. After this figure, for every 10,000 players, you will need to add x-level computers, so the price-performance ratio will be very uneconomical." Bruce said helplessly. Seeing that Lin Feng frowned, he said comfortingly, "If the player's computer can be upgraded, whether it is adding a memory stick or changing to a better graphics card, if it can be changed collectively, the load capacity of the super computer will be greatly improved."

Bruce's words are not difficult to understand. With the increase of online players, the load on his super computer is not only the data traffic of tens of thousands of players. It's the data traffic of thousands of players.

To put it simply, the original Songtai-level computer can handle the traffic of 10,000 players, but for every 10,000 more players, for the super-level computer, it is not only the extra data of x million players, but also the calculation of the original 0 million players and The data generated between these x million players. Calculated in this way, the data traffic is definitely a geometric multiplication.

Just like what philosophy says, when the "quantity" reaches a certain level, there will be a "quality" change.

And Liwan players are the critical point of Taiwan-level computers.

Now "Swordsman Love: Loyalty to Serve the Country" is only a first-class computer, let alone load tens of thousands of players, even if it can load the existing tens of thousands of players, it is a bit reluctant. Now, "Swordsman Love: Loyalty to Serve the Country" must add a super computer before many players start the large-scale battle mission, otherwise the three super computers will definitely crash.

However, adding a super computer, in addition to taking time, more importantly, it takes money to support thousands of players. The average price of a super computer is around 10,000 U.S. dollars, and four of them are worth 10,000 U.S. dollars, which is close to the lead. RMB. The hardware investment is as high as 100 million yuan, and the monthly rent, water and electricity, and labor are added, and the monthly additional expenditure is about 10,000 yuan. This cost too much.

According to Qiu Xin's plan, "Swordsman Love: Loyalty to Serve the Country" will adopt a point card fee system, similar to "Legend". However, it is calculated according to such a charging standard. "Mountain" players, with the current popularity of "Swordsman Love: Loyalty to Serve the Country", there is no problem with Luobu Xiaowan's full quota online.

Then the point card fee for x players per day is 10,000 yuan, and a total of 10,000 players will generate gross profit for "Second World" in one day, and a total of 10,000 gross profits in a month. Except for taxes and monthly fixed expenses, the net profit in about one month is more than ten thousand.

But even with such an astonishing profit, it will take at least a month to recover the hardware cost of 100 million yuan. But fortunately, the game life of "Swordsman Love: Loyalty to Serve the Country" will definitely not last beyond the old month.

But all these are just theoretical data, but in reality it is a lot of trouble.

First of all, the game settings of "Swordsman Love: Loyalty to Serve the Country" canceled the "add blood and add magic" settings of ordinary online games. In the game, when the player is injured, there is no medicine that can directly increase the blood of the gods, except that the gods can use golden sore medicine and other items to stop bleeding and treat trauma.

After all, this kind of medicine does not exist in the novel. In order to restore a real martial arts world, Qiu Xin also canceled the setting that can directly increase the blood according to the novel.

The same is true of inner strength. In addition to being treated with medicines for internal injuries, the player's internal energy is empty and can only be recovered slowly through "meditation" or automatic recovery.

Although this setting makes most players a little uncomfortable, it is very fresh and interesting, and it also reduces the comparison of taking medicine madness. There is no technical content, and it all depends on the existence of players who have a lot of medicine. "More emphasis on operability than before, and to a certain extent weakened the impact of RMB players disrupting the game balance.

But correspondingly, in the game, players spend a lot of time "meditating" to restore their internal strength. With the Chinese players' madness towards the game, point cards will definitely not be able to meet the needs of players. Card.

Although "Second World" does not launch monthly cards, and the charm of "Swordsman Love: Loyalty to the Country" will force players to continue playing, but Lin Feng's philosophy of operating "Second World" is to build a game empire. And if you want to build a game empire, you must have a large number of loyal players. This also means that Lin Feng can't be as brutal and rude as other online game companies to go public to collect money, and then regardless of the interests of the players, if the game operation is over, he will continue to operate with another game . Terrific was buried and eliminated, and even the company name was changed.

This kind of behavior of hastily making games, rushing to the market, and "failing to serve" is one of the fundamental reasons why there are few independent games in the domestic game market today. The "Second World" must not take this path.

Therefore, if Lin Feng wants to take care of the interests of domestic gamers, he will inevitably launch a monthly card, and the price of the monthly card must not be too high, which will directly affect the profit drop. Another point is that a large number of assembled computers will inevitably take away the working capital of the concubine of the "Second World", which is also a hidden danger.

"Bruce, can you find a way to increase the load capacity of the super computer?" Lin Feng asked expectantly.

"Boss, unless we develop our own super computer operating system, then the performance will be improved by about 100%. After all, the super computer operating system we use now is slightly adapted from the operating system I designed for an entertainment company before. For a moment, it is not suitable for the actual use of the company." Bruce thought for a while and said.

"However, the owner of the operating system also knows that with our company's existing technical strength, we can't do research on our own. We can only hope that Kevin will steal the information of other company-level computers. It will take time and patience." Bruce said, "Of course, there is a "Moore's Law" in the computer world, which will double the performance of computers every month, and our server load will naturally double by then."

Lin Feng frowned, and waited for the player's computer to be automatically upgraded in the past month. Obviously, he didn't know what Lin Feng wanted. After thinking for a while, he said confidently.

"In this way, Bruce, you continue to assemble supercomputers and try to improve the operating system. As for the player's hardware, I will figure out a way." Moore's Law. The cycle of the old month is too long. I want to change the cycle of "Moore's Law." Lin Feng said slowly but firmly.

It seems that now is the time to chat with several major computer hardware manufacturers in the industry.

He used to have no strength, but now the popularity of "Swordsman Love: Loyalty to Serve the Country" and the players' enthusiasm for it, Lin Feng believes that "Swordsman Love: Loyalty to Serve the Country" will definitely bring players' demand for computer hardware performance, driven by profit , Lin Feng did not believe that these computer manufacturers would not be tempted.

Bruce was slightly taken aback, wondering how Lin Feng could break "Moore's Law", but right now he should do his own work first and assemble more supercomputers. Anyway, supercomputers are not like personal computers, which will be eliminated so quickly.