Comments for Project Dollhouse

Comment on About the project’s timespan by Afr0

Afr0 — Wed, 09 May 2012 10:52:26 +0000

Just to clarify: What I mean by “many” clients is above 100. In a regular MMO like WoW, you might be able to serve like… 10 – 15 people at any one time. But since this isn’t exactly a fast-paced game, you might be able to get away with serving 50 peeps from your home at any given time.

Comment on About the project’s timespan by Afr0

Afr0 — Wed, 09 May 2012 10:50:27 +0000

Yes, yes. People can use those. But running the server software from your home-PC kind of defeats the point of an MMO, because unless you have a fucking gigantic upload speed from your house, you won’t be able to serve many clients. Oh and unless you leave your home PC running 24/7, the world won’t be “constant”. In an MMO, people from around the world should be able to join at any point. Obviously you could invest in a separate workstation to use for your server, but you’d still need to find the best broadband connection for miles around (actually, a regular broadband connection probably wouldn’t cut it…)

Comment on About the project’s timespan by William

William — Tue, 01 May 2012 05:28:54 +0000

….
What about XT Network or Hamachi?

Comment on About the project’s timespan by Wilford

Wilford — Tue, 24 Apr 2012 02:47:11 +0000

Hi and thanks for spending some time to explain the terminlogy towards the rookies!

Comment on About the project’s timespan by Afr0

Afr0 — Tue, 17 Apr 2012 09:57:49 +0000

Uhm, what?
I’m writing my own server-software, and have been doing so from the start. As for what people can afford, all the software is open source and free, but obviously renting a server with a powerful internet connection will be costly for people who wishes to run their own servers.

Comment on About the project’s timespan by William

William — Tue, 17 Apr 2012 08:58:04 +0000

How’s it going? I saw the progress with niotso and both of you guys are going well!
I wanna ask you something:
What program are you gonna run for the server. Every Server that needs to run something that other people to talk like habbo has it. Nearly the servers cost so much and some people can’t afford it.

Comment on Nearly there! by Jwofle

Jwofle — Mon, 09 Apr 2012 10:25:09 +0000

Dude your doing great!
This remake is going to be sweet!

Comment on Nearly there! by Yannick

Yannick — Sun, 08 Apr 2012 12:02:08 +0000

Nice to see this

Comment on Tension is rising… by Afr0

Afr0 — Fri, 06 Apr 2012 23:15:20 +0000

I’ll make a new post as soon as I have something to report!

Comment on Tension is rising… by Octavia

Octavia — Fri, 06 Apr 2012 23:07:16 +0000

Hey there! Fantastic post! Please do tell us when we shall see a follow up!

Comment on Nearly there! by Jo

Jo — Fri, 06 Apr 2012 03:46:01 +0000

This is great to see! Thanks for the updates and long live Project Dollhouse!

Comment on About the project’s timespan by Afr0

Afr0 — Tue, 03 Apr 2012 21:13:07 +0000

I’m going to be hosting a live server for as long as I can afford, but I might have to take donations or something in order to be able to keep it going.

Comment on About the project’s timespan by Fatbag

Fatbag — Mon, 02 Apr 2012 22:21:26 +0000

I’m not going to host Niotso Server, since to me it’s just a big waste of money. I’m assuming there will be a couple of people who want to become internet-famous (or make money…) for a monthly subscription of $25 or $50 /month VPS, so if that’s the case, you should expect to have a blast playing through a big-player third-party host. Eventually.

Comment on About the project’s timespan by Afr0

Afr0 — Sat, 31 Mar 2012 22:44:28 +0000

We are collaborating, but only in the sense that we share any new technical insights that are made on the game with each other.

Comment on About the project’s timespan by Afr0

Afr0 — Sat, 31 Mar 2012 22:43:21 +0000

If/when/for as long as I’ll be hosting a server, it won’t require a subscription to play. Not to satisfy lazy cheapskates, but because it would be illegal.
However, since this is an open source project, it’ll never “fail”. Anyone can compile and run their own server from wherever they’d like for as long as they’d like, whenever they’d like.

Comment on About the project’s timespan by Blin Qipa

Blin Qipa — Sat, 31 Mar 2012 20:34:47 +0000

Is Project Dollhouse and NIOTSO gonna be with the subscription payment via Paypal , If so I’m not gonna play this game , because I want to be Equal with everyone , If this game gonna be with payment Project Dollhouse will fail , like the EPIC FAIL of The Sims Online (ORIGINAL)
Reply please!

Comment on About the project’s timespan by Anonymous

Anonymous — Sat, 31 Mar 2012 14:42:52 +0000

why not collaborate with niotso it would make things quicker.

Comment on Tension is rising… by Afr0

Afr0 — Tue, 20 Mar 2012 16:12:12 +0000

o_O
That could mean they use a custom coordinate system altogether!

Comment on Tension is rising… by Fatbag

Fatbag — Tue, 20 Mar 2012 09:55:06 +0000

Both games use DirectDraw for 3D. I’m not even kidding. Do a hex dump of TS1, TSO, and SimShow, and you’ll find they don’t link with opengl32.dll or d3d.dll, but with ddraw.dll. According to Wikipedia, “DirectDraw is a 2D API. That is, it contains commands for 2D rendering and does not support 3D hardware acceleration. A programmer could use DirectDraw to draw 3D graphics, but the rendering would be slow compared to an API such as Direct3D which does support 3D hardware acceleration.”

Comment on Tension is rising… by Afr0

Afr0 — Tue, 20 Mar 2012 05:13:54 +0000

Thanks!