performance consideration for large number of players

[gfrancqu]

Hi everyone !

I'm curious about the ability of ALSCommunity to be efficient given a large number of users

I would like to build a game where at least 50 vs 50 players on a the same map could play together, in my most ambitious and unrealisable dream I would like 1000s of players to be able to evolve in the map but let start easy.

I think ALS is great, the result is really nice, I think is easily extendable and you can easily integrate it into your project, but is ALS too "complex" to achieve this goal of 100~200 players on a same server ? I have been using UE for a few months now and I think that ALS is perfect to get me started on my project but, with all this curve/layer system and the current complexity of the animation graph, maybe it involve to much calculation for a client or server to be able to handle a load of massive amount of players within a same area.

What do you guys thinks ? (especially you @dyanikoglu)

[gfrancqu]

ok so I decided to make a little test, i'm posting the result here so maybe it can help someone

tried to put 105 IA to see if there is a significant drop in the fps one the client

~100fps when I'm lookin at the wall

~30 fps when the 105 IA are displayed and moving

seems pretty acceptable given my use case and the fact that having the 100players on my server all together on the same place at the same moment is unlikelly to happen