September 2005

• MAC Addresses.....again... Dread Quixadhal
• Online Alchemy looking for senior programmer candidates Michael Sellers
• DGN: Reasons for play Koster, Raph
• Hint Dhiego Ramos
• Custom Client or Plain ole' Telnet? Matt Chatterley
• • Custom Client or Plain ole' Telnet? Edward Glowacki
  • Custom Client or Plain ole' Telnet? lwl@black-knight.org (Lydia Leong)
  • Custom Client or Plain ole' Telnet? Christopher Allen
  • Custom Client or Plain ole' Telnet? Mike Rozak
    Matt Chatterley wrote:
    
    > Simply put - do I go with a custom client, or implement a telnet
    > interface?
    
    1) It's a design issue, as you noted.
    
    2) It's a marketing issue too...
    
    A large text-only VW has around 500-1000 concurrent peak users. A
    large graphical VW with full 3D and a huge budget has 100x - 1000x
    that, WoW having around 500K-1M concurrent peak users.. Ultima
    Online is someplace in bewteen w/respect to graphics, and has 20K
    (???) concurrent peak users. (The numbers are all muddied by
    English-speaking vs. Asian-only vs. worldwide, too.)
    
    These are three points on the graph. One might assume the function
    is monotonically increasing with the amount of graphics, but this
    isn't necessarily the case. If you make a text-only VW with minimal
    graphics (like maps), will you end up with more players? I don't
    know.
    
    Furthermore... Marketing almost always wants more players. As a
    designer, do you want more players?
    
    Mike Rozak
    http://www.mxac.com.au
  • Custom Client or Plain ole' Telnet? Oscar Bremsht
  • Custom Client or Plain ole' Telnet? Jacob Allison
  • Custom Client or Plain ole' Telnet? Sean Howard
  • • Custom Client or Plain ole' Telnet? The Arrow
  • Custom Client or Plain ole' Telnet? Pandora
  • • Custom Client or Plain ole' Telnet? Matt Chatterley
  • Custom Client or Plain ole' Telnet? Nick Koranda
  • Custom Client or Plain ole' Telnet? Peter Harkins
• [TECH] Multi - Browser plugin framework Arnau Josep Rosselló Castelló
• • [TECH] Multi - Browser plugin framework Edward Glowacki
  • • [TECH] Multi - Browser plugin framework Arnau Josep Rosselló Castelló
    • • [TECH] Multi - Browser plugin framework Lachek Butalek
      • • [TECH] Multi - Browser plugin framework Max Battcher
      • [TECH] Multi - Browser plugin framework Arnau Josep Rosselló Castelló
  • [TECH] Multi - Browser plugin framework Lachek Butalek
  • • [TECH] Multi - Browser plugin framework Christopher Allen
  • [TECH] Multi - Browser plugin framework ceo
  • • [TECH] Multi - Browser plugin framework Max Battcher