alt Hacker NewsThe load/save is what kills me. It's a great project, but having to wait 2 hours for a game to load, fans blaring on my laptop, makes it less playable.
For context, I love huge, massive maps with loads of players. OpenRA replays the entire game to restore, it doesn't have a save-current-state routine.
So 20 hours of massive map + 8 players means 2 hours of pegged CPU to reload the save.
Heartbreaking.
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apitman • yesterday at 2:55 PM
> So 20 hours of massive map + 8 players means 2 hours of pegged CPU to reload the save.
It's super impressive this works at all.
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paulryanrogers • yesterday at 5:23 PM
Perhaps because their focus is on multiplayer, where saving and loading isn't as in demand as SP
lenkite • yesterday at 4:13 PM
Now, that is what I call taking the "Command Design Pattern" to heart!
I want a VCS that works this way:
1. download current version of Linux
2. an MS-DOS/Minix dualboot VM starts with Linus beating Prince of Persia
3. fast-forward all the way through the history of Linux to him merging the relevant patchset