0 carbon Posted April 9, 2020 Report Share Posted April 9, 2020 BBO could distribute processing a little like SETI by distributing GIB, robot processing to players' CPUs.This could be done for the player involved, or distributed to other players, perhaps on the basis of how much CPU power they have.Then maybe free tourneys could go back to an 800 limit! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
barmar Posted April 9, 2020 Report Share Posted April 9, 2020 We have no problem renting more robot servers, and we've alreary done so. But there's a central server that mediates all the activity at traditional tables and tournaments, and it's not designed to be distributed among multiple machines. We're looking into ways to split it up, but it's tricky. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TylerE Posted April 9, 2020 Report Share Posted April 9, 2020 That would make it far too easy to cheat, and would be a substantial development effort. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vampyr Posted April 9, 2020 Report Share Posted April 9, 2020 One advantage would be that you could probably attach a better robot. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
j_with_a_B Posted April 10, 2020 Report Share Posted April 10, 2020 We have no problem renting more robot servers, and we've alreary done so. But there's a central server that mediates all the activity at traditional tables and tournaments, and it's not designed to be distributed among multiple machines. We're looking into ways to split it up, but it's tricky. Perhaps traditional tables and regular non robot tournaments could be on separate servers? Whatever you can do to allow BBO to adapt and grow and prosper is always welcome! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
barmar Posted April 10, 2020 Report Share Posted April 10, 2020 Perhaps traditional tables and regular non robot tournaments could be on separate servers? Whatever you can do to allow BBO to adapt and grow and prosper is always welcome!This is something we've actually been considering. We would need to redesign things like chat so that you could chat with people on the other server. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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