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<h2 id="introduction">Introduction</h2> |
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Back in my childhood I used to play quite the amount of MMORPGs(mostly because they were free, but also because they were online). |
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Back in my childhood I used to play quite the amount of MMORPGs(mostly because they were free, but also because they were online).<br> |
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The more time passed, the less MMORPGs I got to play, most of the good options were either shut down |
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or got SUCH a power creep I lost interest in them(like MapleStory when they started adding a lot of overpowered classes). |
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As an aspiring game developer, I hope to one day attempt making my own MMORPG, and something which is (sort of) important to me |
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is for the game to be decentralized/federated. |
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<h2 id="why make a decentralized mmo tho?">Why make a decentralized MMO tho?</h2> |
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Well, you see, whenever I look for alternatives to big centralized services(like Github or social medias), |
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it always seems to me that the best choice is to decentralize and federate it. That way, anyone can create their own instance |
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it always seems to me that the best choice is to decentralize and federate it.<br> That way, anyone can create their own instance |
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and not miss out on everyone else, allowing both greater control to the individual, while also sharing the costs between those |
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who host their own(and those who decide to donate them). |
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who host their own(and those who decide to donate them).<br> |
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Besides, there are some useful advantages to federating a bunch of servers in an MMO which will hopefully become clearer later on. |
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<h2 id="hubs">Hubs</h2> |
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Hubs(or Home servers) are the main servers of the network, they are the main authority over your account. |
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Hubs have an overworld with stuff to do(or maybe not), and where you meet other players and can make parties, |
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communicate with others, trade and all the usual stuff people do in MMOs(like a dance party). |
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Federation between hubs is a 2 way opt in federation, which means both servers need to accept the federation for the federation to exist |
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(probably accept the federation by creating a portal somewhere in the overworld). |
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Federated servers also needs to sync any plugins/mods/addons which create new items |
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(or anything you can transfer between servers, so a hat needs to by synced but a new boss doesnt need to). |
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Federated servers needs to have trust between them, because federating with 2 servers means said servers are now also federating |
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(creating a federation cluster) |
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<h2 id="dungeons">Dungeons</h2> |
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Dungones(or Nodes/Edges) are sub-servers, they are simply a dungeon/map for a party to explore/play in, |
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and are to be the main content of the game. |
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Dungeons dont federate with each other(and technically dont federate at all), but hubs can link to them and allow their |
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players to go into a dungeon and get the rewards from it(or optionally, modify the rewards to better suite the server). |
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Dungeons occur in private instances available only to the exploring party. |
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Dungeons(or Nodes/Edges) are sub-servers, they are simply a dungeon/map for a party to explore/play in, |
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and should be where most of the game content occur. |
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Dungeons dont federate with each other(and technically dont federate at all), but hubs can link/federate(one way) to them and allow their |
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players to go into a dungeon and get the rewards from it(or optionally, modify the rewards to better fit the server). |
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Dungeons occur in private instances available only to the exploring party. |
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this means that the hub server trusts the players to not lie about the results of the dungeon |
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(although for end rewards, the server can roll the dice for them, to allow random loot in dungeons). |
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<h3 id="quick note on dungeons">Quick note on dungeons</h3> |
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Although dungeons usually get linked to from hub servers, it is also possible to allow dungeons to be played even if they are not linked, |
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thus allowing players to play all dungeons, but it means non-linked dungeons will give no actual reward(or anything at all). |
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