Recent content by ddfczm

Different ports. 443 (SSL) for the API, 1 port per city and 1 port per lot server.

Agree, scaling will be manual, aka "capacity planning". Auto scaling is amazingly useful, I use it a lot in my day to day life. its good for cost and reliability (servers can replace themselves when they break). However, auto scaling works best when the system is stateless. This is because it is...

Making a server bigger refers to choosing more powerful hardware. Take your city server and move it to a server with more CPUs, more RAM, bigger SSDs etc. This is called vertical scaling. Horizontal scaling is where you just add more servers. Horizontal scaling is more desirable as it works...

This is what I have been working on. The city server scales vertically (aka as city gets bigger you need a bigger server). This is a bad way to scale but the city server is IO heavy so should handle more than enough on modest hardware. The lot servers are distributed, they scale horizontally. We...

On a related note, I think we will also allow multiple sims in the same city. This is another way to own and run multiple lots.

I understood you, just didn't remember to what extent the chat UI was color coded. I was looking at screenshots showing all one color which threw me off. Is it just the name field that varies in color in the IM window?

Electron for chat and lot purchase,, Tsoclient asks to find the characters location before it does any IM and its a complex packet yet to be understood. The lot page stuff is all data service and compatible. Sounds good. I think most of the initial work for lot stuff will be around saving /...

Are you thinking of the in lot chat history panel. That was color coordinated.

New and improved so it does not have the EA Land crud on the person page for example. The UI varies right now from new & improved because we are still building everything... its not finished

Chat, http://gfycat.com/DeadIdolizedCanadagoose

No. I'm working in a feature branch called feature/server-rebuild. Its possible to run this version but it requires you to setup the new server and its dependencies (databases, SSL certificates etc).

Hey all, another boring update. I've been working on lot management, most of which is non visible hence boring. I have a basic path through buying your own property, this only works in FreeSO as we don't know all the voltron packets for this. I also did some UI work on the lot page / dialogs and...

My update for today is not as interesting as Rhys but progress none the less. I've implemented the info hover that shows up over land parcels / lots in FreeSO client. That's now working end to end in both original tso and freeso. I had to make a new type of tooltip as I needed fine grain...

I was hoping there would be some hints in the tuning data but I could not see anything.

I went looking for some screenshots of the original game. Found a few that show lot prices. I don't think we are a million miles away. Perhaps islands slightly more expensive, single waterfront slightly less expensive. Maybe altitude adjustment is a bit low or snow had a greater base price...