Lionna сказал(а):
Ncsoft won't have the money to develop their own engine, because it would cost alot money to code a stable engine for a MMORPG to handle 1k+ Player on the Screen. Im sure they gonna use the U3 Engine or Cryengine1, because it's alot cheaper and easier. First Lineage 3 Source Code was based on the Unreal3 Engine, but Ncsoft can change alot until 2013.
It depends. How you can know that using engine which was primary created for FPS will be more stable and easier configurable for MMO than whole new engine primary focused on large battlefields in open world. I also really dont know how much is the net code depended on the engine itself.
What is more compare graphic of Aion and FarCry1...i think that Aion is still far away from what the engine can handle. I want to point the fact you can have any engine, but for 1k player on the screen you HAVE TO lower polycounts, resolution of textures and so on, cos its about computer power doesnt matter which features engine have.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lineage_III#cite_note-A_Fresh_Start_Korean-1
"Lineage III was originally anticipated to use the Unreal Engine 3,[1][2][9] but a NCsoft representative has since stated that NCsoft will instead develop an entirely new proprietary engine."
And the last but not least its not important when the game come out, but when someone leak the server files
