Resolved Is NGO good for an RTS?

Hi, I'm currently playing around with using NGO for a variety of different game types, and wanted to make an rts. I'm not sure if NGO could support having a ton of flying bullets or raycasts on the screen.

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A ton is 1000 kilograms. Does it relate to number of bullets in a 1:1 fashion?

Let's say you have 1000 bullets and each individual bullet would have a network transform. Let's further assume only the position changes (float x,y,z) which means 12 bytes per bullet (plus overhead but let's ignore that). 12 times 1000 times 50 (network tick rate) gives you 600,000 bytes per second. That's 600 Kb of traffic per second sent from server to clients. Certainly too much.

However, none of these bullets really need to be networked. You could simplify that to "unit starts/stops shooting in direction X" and server determines flight path and only informs about hits. Each client plays animations of bullets flying independently (not synchronized). That would work.

This logic applies to all networking solutions by the way.

 

Thanks a lot!

 

If you want a concrete example of minimizing network traffic in an RTS context, take a look at the Planetary Annihilation system.

https://www.forrestthewoods.com/blog/tech_of_planetary_annihilation_chrono_cam/