AfterWorld Survival Forum

at first i was  going to disagree with you but then i read that land should be purchased, that way would be a good alternative to use a ric

Based on past Dedicated Logic comments - R.I.Cs are already earmarked for use in buying Corporation based assets.

I believe the first assets being planned are Oil Rigs (to provide fuel for vehicles).
If I remember it correctly, these Oil Rigs require lots of R.ICs and a huge amount of lead (and probably lots of steel).

Its not an idea thats formed that why i just said here that i wish it was like that and didnt make a real thread in this forum section.. its just my wish to combine a game where you can build stuff and create your own paradise and AW. I like to build stuff.. crafting is a way of "building" items, but not like terrain or buildings or things that can be somewhere other than your inventory or storage.. you know, like actually owning some land and building your own house or fences or turrets and breeding your own pigs or something or building your own personal turret to keep mobs or people away... stuff that in no way currently fits in AW but that i wish it somehow could

This is a dream many ppl in many different MMO's have.
As we can see from different remarks devs have made over long stretches of time it's just different ideas and from here (read: with nothing implemented yet) it can go in any direction, or even at 2 different directions at once...


Speaking about practical aspects, provided there's enough free landscape (outside mob spawns, outside PvP or any other special zones) it's just a matter of labeling certain areas as "usable for construction" server-side. No need to create any signs visible for players, it would make things even more interesting if we have to search for these spots.
Plus, the tougher part - writing the code for a small selection of building blocks and the user interface for them.


Let's hope sth like that will be... sometimes in the undefined future.




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RIC's...
Suppose John Smith was rich guy, bought thousand RICs and built a whole city. Suppose, he leaves the game. That's it, u will have to carry this dead weight on your server forever, not used by the owner, not usable by anyone else either. Unless... u figure out a way to make this "permanent" into "not so permanent".


It will be tricky to use both RIC's (permanent) and Territory Control by the Corporations (dynamic/temporary) at the same time, althou it's possible.


Taking all this into account, my idea with RIC's is a bit heretic. Make the buildings bought for RIC's permanent, accept the lost server space and leave them there forever as landmarks for the first, notorious AW players.


From this point forward, stop issuing any RIC's (or the like), make full U-turn and go for 100% dynamic buildings. Rent based or strongest Corp control based, but in nature always temporary.

ya one of the things they said they are fixing is the thruput of data on the PC.   do more online.

Got suggestion for possibly reducing the lag caused by hard drive IO operations.. I noticed I am getting quite a few "stopped working" errors when HDD is under heavy load and at the same time game client is basically frozen, waiting for HDD IO operations to get done. Hard drive is under constant load while playing AW, doing hell knows what, even when I stay utterly still.
It's not so noticeable on my own PC but when I am visiting my parent's and using their older PC (250Gb SATA 1,5 HDD) then HDD lag becomes quite interfering with the game play.

It also degrades hard drives, especially bad for SSD's

AWS data files are in what appear to be basically password encrypted ZIP-s ("dlpack" files in AWS folder). I assume encryption is there to prevent people from tampering the files for their own advantage.

At the same time I have become to suspect that extra work and dealing with those encrypted files is what is causing a lot of the lags.. I have tried some other games that utilize "open" zip's for holding their data files and they make a lot less use of hard drives.

Good points all.
I'm hoping this higher than average load on the HDD is temporary. While developing new stuff (eg. trying to improve the mechanism responsible for loading the objects in the background) it's pretty much standard procedure u try to achieve some solid results first and deal with the optimization problems later.


There's a quick fix for all those problems ( provided u know a bit more about PC's than the average dumbuser )
While playing old AW i used to run it off the RAM drive, with a script that copied the files to the RAM drive after every computer restart. This setup gives the max possible performance, plus u always have a fresh copy of AW n never have to worry about broken game files. Two birds one stone.
When the new engine the game became bigger but the RAM sizes on new PC's have also grown.

Could it be your anti-virus?  Most antivirus programs skip over encrypted zip files (by reading their header) but some like to still try and open the file.  If the file is large then that could really slow things down.   Look in your AV for encrypted files and if there is an option to turn it off.   If you don't know how tell me what product and version and I can tell u if its possible.  Kind of what I do for a living

oh and removing encryption on those files aint gonna happen.  That would make it way to easy to hack the game on download.  Encrypt and authenticate all downloaded files inside of the program itself.

NOD32.  ah well first of all not your usual AV, good job its by far a different way of AV.  So what happens is the NOD (Remember C&C Nod... loved that game)  its a sandbox AV system, the idea is to download a file competely, run a bounch of ideas against file and determine what its doing. The encrypted screws it up.  In the business version the admin can tell it to ignore such files, but alas in the user version its really limited.

So the problem is u have to download the complete file before NoD decides to not try it or hashes it about in the sandbox a few time before coughing it up.  I use Trend Micro and it looks at the file headers as its downloading and as long as the file download stays within the header limits it found, it just ignores it and sends it along (Mostly cause it has the option to ignore encrypted files).

Be interested if anyone else is having the problem and using NOD.  I suspect it is really a bug that they just havent programed around.