• Donjuanme@lemmy.world
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    10 months ago

    Seems like it could just scale, why would it take hundreds of players? For the joint computing power?

    • 4am@lemm.ee
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      10 months ago

      Yeah they’re going way beyond what a single game session can handle. ~500GB of RAM combined!

      • Rai@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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        10 months ago

        My server has about a quarter of that!

        but an ancient shitty cpu and also it’s DDR3

    • Kilgore Trout
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      10 months ago

      It’s explained in the article. There’s a hard-coded limit on the rate of science you can produce.