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I don't think you understand how LAN works anon

You're thinking of a 128 SLI setup of some kind

This sounds absolutely retarded.

>>14182351

>hurr durr muh grafikz

Either make a game that looks good on shit hardware (meaning: use something other than polygons and actually innovate) or make a game that is focused on actually having huge, hundred+ player battles. Or make an engine designed around giving NPCs behaviors like what Todd lied about in Oblivion, but for real. Pick one fucking thing and innovate. Otherwise you're just wasting time.

I want to see a proof of concept game. Call it The City. Make it a tiny villa of something like 4000 NPCs. Make every home and business enterable. Every single building. Give the NPCs scripted behaviors. They get up, go to their jobs, come home, do things with their families, talk to neighbors, etc.

Then put the player in the city and just let them do anything the engine allows. THE DEVELOPER'S GOAL: Have the NPCs respond realistically to the player's actions (which cause changes). If the player breaks into a house and kills someone's neighbor, have the NPC go over to the house as though nothing is wrong until it sees the break in and the neighbor's corpse. Calls the cops, etc. And then maybe that NPC buys a gun. Maybe it's harder for you, the player, to get into THEIR house if you wanted to. Maybe you crash a car. You could run away (on bruised limbs, sure), but there's going to be a tow truck, ambulance, and police show up. If you get seen on a store camera you're robbing, be sure the police will begin to learn your face. If you go after kids, everyone in town will be up in arms trying to find you.

Something like that. Create an engine for THAT kind of interaction. NPC AI has been stuck in a rut for decades.

>OP is so fucking retarded he doesn't know what LAN is

>thinks he can manage money with this retardation

also not video games.

>>14182359

Yeah this sounds very different from a LAN party, I'm pretty sure this is even being done already.