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Server meshing isn't new at all. But how CIG is doing it, is. The dynamic nature of it is what makes it revolutionary. Servers can be spooled up and retired as needed. A certain area of the universe is under heavy load as there are thousands of players having a small fleet engagement? Add more servers to handle the load. There are some planets and even star systems that are not visited by players? Retire them and just let Quantum (CIGs universe simulation) run the simulation for those star systems.
But isn't that exactly what the people at WorldQL accomplished already?
I think the last point specifically addresses your concern about dynamic server meshing. They can scale up or down depending on how many players are in an area.
Perhaps yeah, and it sounds like that. But the scale is not really comparable. Or can WorldQL still simulate whatever is going on in unloaded chunks?
I don't think the base game, Minecraft, actually simulates chunks which aren't loaded. IIRC they're frozen until loaded into memory again. So no, but not because of WorldQL tech.
Fair point. Minecraft itself doesn't simulate anything in unloaded chunks afaik, so I think the WorldQL PoC can't change that as a server plugin. They probably could if they develop a Minecraft server from scratch tho.
IE, CIG is attempting to do it in the hardest way possible.
As always, yeah :)