Chapter 469

Bruce Allen sits opposite Lin Feng with a cup of coffee.

"What's the matter, Bruce? What's the problem?" Asked Lin Feng.

"Boss, there's something wrong with supercomputers. I'm afraid it's not as simple as we think." Said Bruce with a sigh.

"What's the matter?" Lin Feng frowned.

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

"What do you mean? Now, isn't supercomputer taking over 50% of the 3D pixel processing data of players? " Lin Feng asked in surprise.

"It's true, but we underestimated the harsh requirements of the swordsman love story. In the early hours of this morning, the supercomputer had reached 99.99% of its load and was on the verge of collapse. " Said Bruce, frowning.

"What's the matter?" Lin Feng was surprised.

"That's the same reason, the configuration of the player's computer is too" poor. " Seeing Lin Feng's confusion, 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 have will increase day by day. With the development of various" continuous recruitment systems "and the gradual opening of large tasks, the game will have higher and higher requirements for players' computer configuration. And in terms of the current configuration of players, if you want to run smoothly, you can only rely on our supercomputer. "

Bruce sighed. He didn't expect the game to be so demanding on computer configuration. After all, Bruce was just a computer hardware enthusiast before, not an online game enthusiast. He never played online games, and there were few games. Therefore, he underestimated the harsh requirements of "swordsman's love for China" on computer hardware.

"Boss, theoretically speaking, with the online rate of 170000 players, 70% of the supercomputer load rate is ideal. In this way, sufficient resources can be left to prevent the geometrically multiplied data flow and three-dimensional pixel image data generated by more than 100000 players on the same map when starting large tasks." Bruce explained in detail.

Lin Feng listened and nodded. Nowadays, players' computers are really "poor". With the progress of the game and the increase of players' martial arts, in large-scale games, especially in Epic Games, the data traffic generated in that instant will be calculated in kilogram (hard disk capacity unit: 1g = 1024m, 1m = 1024KB, 1KB = 1204 bytes, one Chinese character takes up two bytes), although there is "cloud computing", But it is also a severe test for the supercomputers of the "second world".

In particular, the 3D pixel image data generated at that time is a geometric multiplier. The player's computer is absolutely impossible to load, can only rely on the "second world" supercomputer. But now the load of the three supercomputers has reached 97%. Once the big battle starts, the three supercomputers are bound to collapse.

"Also, boss, I have calculated carefully that four supercomputers are ideal for 200000 online players. If you exceed this number, for every 20000 more players, you will have to add one supercomputer, which is not cost-effective." Bruce has no choice but to say, "if the player's computer can be upgraded, whether it's to add a memory module or change to a better graphics card, if it can be changed collectively, the load capacity of the supercomputer will be increased by 20%."

Bruce's words are easy to understand. With the increase of online players, their supercomputers load not only the data traffic of 20000 more players, but also the data traffic of 220000 more players. In short, the original four supercomputers can load 200000 players, but for every 10000 more players, the supercomputer will not only calculate the data of 10000 more players, but also calculate the data generated between the original 200000 players and the 10000 players. This way, the data flow is a geometric multiplier.

As philosophy says, when "quantity" reaches a certain degree, there will be a change of "quality". And 200000 players are the critical point of four supercomputers.

At present, there are only three supercomputers in swordsman love: loyalty to the country. It's a bit reluctant to load 200000 players, even 170000 players. Now, the swordsman must add a supercomputer before many players start a large-scale battle mission, otherwise the three supercomputers will crash.

However, in addition to time, it is more important to ask for money to increase supercomputers. Only four supercomputers can load 200000 players. Now the average price of a supercomputer is about 9 million US dollars, and that of four supercomputers is 36 million US dollars, close to 300 million RMB. The investment in hardware is as high as 300 million yuan, plus the monthly rent, water and electricity, plus labor, the monthly additional expenditure is about 1.2 million yuan. It's too expensive.

According to Qiu Xin's plan, "swordsman's devotion to the country" will adopt a point card charging system, similar to "legend", which costs 35 yuan for 120 hours. Converted down, 1 hour card is about 0.3 yuan. However, according to such a charging standard, there is no problem for 200000 players to stay online with 200000 full quota in 24 hours with the popularity of "swordsman love: loyalty to the country".

So the daily charge for one player is 7.2 yuan, 200000 players will create 1.44 million gross profit for the "second world" in one day and 43.2 million gross profit for one month. Apart from taxes and monthly fixed expenses, the net profit in January is about 34 million yuan.

But even with such amazing profits, it will take at least 10 months to recover 300 million yuan of hardware costs. Fortunately, the life of the game is more than 10 months. But all these are just theoretical data, but there are a lot of troubles in practice.

First of all, the game setting of "devotion to the country" in swordsman's love has canceled the setting of "adding blood and demons" in ordinary online games. Players in the game, injured, in addition to the drug can be used to stop bleeding, wound treatment, there is no medicine can directly add blood. After all, this kind of medicine does not exist in the novel. In order to restore a real world of martial arts, Qiu Xin also imitates the novel and cancels the setting of adding blood directly.

So is internal power. Internal injuries can be treated with medicine, but players' internal power is empty. They can only recover slowly through "meditation" or automatic recovery.

This setting is not suitable for most players, but it's very new and interesting. It also reduces the number of players who take medicine to be a boss. There is no technical content and all depend on medicine. Swordsman's loyalty to serve the country pays more attention to operability than before, and weakens the influence of RMB players on game balance to a certain extent.

However, in the game, players have a lot of time to "meditate" to recover their internal power. With the craziness of Chinese players on the game, point cards can never meet the needs of players. They will definitely call for "the second world" to launch monthly cards.

Although "the second world" does not launch a monthly card, and the charm of "swordsman's loyalty to the country" will force players to continue to play, Lin Feng's idea of "the second world" is to build a game empire. If you want to build a game Empire, you must have a large number of loyal players. In disguise, it's doomed that Lin Feng can't be as brutal and rude as other online game companies. Then, regardless of the interests of the players, the game will continue to operate when the game operation is over. Great was buried ruthlessly, even the name of the company changed.

This kind of hasty production of games, hasty listing, quick "reverse service" behavior is one of the fundamental reasons for the lack of independent games in the domestic game market“ The "second world" must not go this way.

Therefore, if Lin Feng wants to take care of the interests of domestic game players, he is bound to launch a monthly card, and the price of the monthly card must not be too high, which directly affects the decline of profits. Another point is that the massive assembly of supercomputers will inevitably take away a large amount of liquidity from the "second world", which is also a hidden danger.

"Bruce, can you find a way to increase the load capacity of the supercomputer?" Lin Feng expected to ask.

"Boss, unless we develop our own supercomputer operating system, the performance will be improved by about 50%. After all, the supercomputer operating system we are using now is a slight adaptation of the operating system I designed for an entertainment company before, which is not suitable for the actual use of the company now." Bruce thought about it and said.

"However, the boss of this operating system also knows that with the existing technical strength of our company, we can't study it by ourselves. We can only hope that Kevin will steal the supercomputer information of other companies. But without being noticed, it takes time and patience. " Bruce said, "of course, there is a Moore's law in the computer industry. Every 18 months, the performance of computers will double, and then our server load will double."

Lin Feng frowned and waited 18 months for the player's computer to upgrade automatically. Obviously, he didn't know what Lin Feng wanted. He said with complacency after pondering.

"So, Bruce, you go on assembling supercomputers and try to improve the operating system. As for the player's hardware, I'll figure out a way‘ Moore's law has a cycle of 18 months, which is too long. I want to change the cycle of Moore's law. " Lin Feng said slowly and firmly.

It seems that it's time to have a chat with several major computer hardware manufacturers in the industry. In the past, he didn't have the strength, but now the popularity of "swordsman's devotion to his country" and the madness of the players to it, Lin Feng believes that "swordsman's devotion to his country" can definitely bring the players' demand for the performance of computer hardware. Driven by profits, Lin Feng doesn't believe that these computer manufacturers will be unmoved.

Bruce is a little stunned. He doesn't know how Lin Feng can break Moore's law. But he does his work well and assembles more supercomputers. In any case, supercomputers are not as fast as personal computers（ To be continued, if you want to know the future, please log in www.qidian.com , more chapters, support authors, support legitimate reading!)