“Throne War?”
“After laying the foundation, shouldn't there be a 'Rise' or something as a transition?”
Xu Meng was a little surprised.
But on second thought, the Dream Building Game Platform already has 400 million registered users, making it absolutely top-tier.
The "Rise" stage has already been completed ahead of schedule.
This massive user base is also one of the key factors in him receiving the excess reward.
As for the "Content Production and Distribution Tiers," it refers to the content creators of the Dream Building Game Platform—
Similar to Xue Liang pulling people from within the company to create the official version of "Storm of Fire," this is the prototype of Dream Building's first-party studio.
Dream Building has 3 similar studio prototypes.
And like Lingzhou Studio, which Dream Building partially controls, it is a second-party studio.
Finally, there are the developers of games like "Kingdoms," "Extreme Speed 6," and "Shadow Knight."
They have no equity relationship with Dream Building, and simply release games on the Dream Building Game Platform, belonging to the third-party studios.
These three tiers, although only in their initial form, can be considered to have built a framework.
As long as this framework is continuously enriched, and the three content production tiers gradually grow, the Dream Building Game Platform can steadily and continuously provide players with a constant stream of game content.
This is also what must be done to complete the new mission [Throne War].
Where are the strengths of established game platforms?
Tens of thousands of old games in the game library;
Thousands of new games launched every year;
A large number of small studios signing exclusive agreements;
Countless independent game developers.
There is also technical support for developers, user habits of players, cross-border payment systems, anti-cheating technology, player communities…
These are all advantages gradually built up over years of development.
If Dream Building wants to complete the [Throne War] and achieve complete transcendence, it will definitely not be an easy task.
It's still better to strengthen myself and become the king of the game industry in a fair and just manner!
Of course, if I really can't get the excess reward in the end…
Then, for the sake of technological progress and the development of civilization, I will have to make my fellow companies suffer a little!
Thinking of this, Xu Meng felt enlightened.
He changed to a comfortable position and leaned on the sofa, closed his eyes, and began to examine the two newly acquired technologies—
[Photonic Topological Server Array] and [Brain-Computer Interface].
He had at least heard of the latter, and with the knowledge reserves of the previous [Dream Machine] and [Somatosensory Synchronization Suit], he wouldn't be completely ignorant.
But the term [Photonic Topological Server Array] belonged to a complete blind spot of knowledge.
Even the technical introduction made Xu Meng feel a bit overwhelmed:
[Combining topological photonics and distributed photonic computing architecture, combining silicon photonic chips and topological insulator materials to build a new type of high-performance, low-energy consumption computing system.]
Three sentences, four unfamiliar terms.
Xu Meng even wondered: What does this thing have to do with games?
His doubts were immediately dispelled by the subsequent usage effects of the [Photonic Topological Server Array]:
Optical signals have no Joule heat, and energy consumption can be reduced by 90% compared to traditional electronic servers!
Compared to the GHz transmission speed of electrical signals, the transmission rate of optical signals can reach THz, and the parallelism is increased by thousands of times!
It can also be arrayed and interconnected, connecting multiple photonic computing modules through a topological optical waveguide network to form a dynamically reconfigurable server cluster!
It sounds a bit like a GPU array in electronic computing.
But the latency can be reduced to picoseconds!
Speaking of latency, Xu Meng is an expert!
Dream Building spent a lot of money to rent cloud server computing power, and its own server center is about to be completed.
But even with so much investment, the latency for players to play games is still unavoidable.
It's really because Xia is too big.
The conditions in big cities are good, and the game latency can be reduced to below 15ms at the lowest.
But in small and medium-sized cities in the Midwest, being stable below 45ms already means that Xia's infrastructure is strong enough and the server providers are powerful enough.
Further afield—especially in remote overseas areas, it's really beyond reach and can only depend on luck.
But once this photonic topological server array is built, it can reduce the latency to below !
It can truly achieve millions of players, simultaneous, real-time interaction!
In addition, the quantum entanglement channel can dynamically allocate computing power, which can completely cope with the load of a super-large open world!
This will be a revolutionary improvement for large-scale multiplayer online games!
“Awesome!!!”
Xu Meng was so excited that he jumped up from the sofa on the spot.
He likes to create big scenes when making games!
The previous city defense war, support for Silver City, and the invasion of the Wild Hunt Legion are all manifestations of this preference.
But the scale of Sprawling Metropolis is already the limit that Dream Building can achieve.
And there is still some exaggeration.
Speaking of which, Sprawling Metropolis does have tens of millions of daily active users every day.
But in reality, these users are scattered in different instances, and the number of players in each instance is at most 2,000.
It's just that once the number of players exceeds a thousand, they will feel that the world is full of people, and they can't tell whether there are 1,000 people or 10,000 people around them.
But doesn't Xu Meng want to put 10 million people in one city?
Of course not.
—No one in the world can do it.
This is a technical limitation, an unbreakable hardware shackle.
But now, the [Photonic Topological Server Array] can break this limitation!
Xu Meng's heart was surging, and he instantly had a bold idea—
“Is it possible to create an entire planet?!!!”
“Which one to create?”
“Second Earth? Monster Hunter World? Water World? Or Holy Terra?”
…
After thinking about it for a while, Xu Meng calmed himself down, lay back on the sofa, and unpacked the technical data of the [Photonic Topological Server Array].
In this process, his brows furrowed little by little.
This thing is indeed invincible in terms of performance.
It can also be upgraded based on the existing semiconductor industry chain—
Silicon photonics technology and topological insulator technology both have ready-made references, and the photonic modules are also compatible with existing copper wires, allowing for hot-swappable designs, so that Dream Building can gradually replace data centers.
At first glance, it is all advantages.
However, topological photonic chips need to use electron beams to engrave nano-scale photonic crystal structures on silicon substrates, and introduce topological edge states by destroying symmetry.
In this regard, Xia's technology is still lagging behind the world's most advanced level.
If you want to make a photonic topological server array, you must first upgrade the semiconductor industry chain.
The semiconductor industry chain is an extremely special industry globally, involving many fields such as technology, politics, and economy.
This thing…
Xu Meng felt a headache just thinking about it.
So he decided: to throw this matter to Wu Shuang and the others for discussion.
In comparison, the brain-computer interface is simpler.
The technical content of this thing is higher than that of the photonic topological server array, but it is a niche field globally, and the impact will not be too broad.
Moreover, Xu Meng felt that performing surgery on players' heads was a bit outrageous.
—Performing surgery on 400 million people around the world, cutting a hole in their heads and implanting neural interfaces.
Even for Xu Meng, this idea was a bit too crazy and wild!
At least at this stage, it is too wild.
Of course, it's not to say that this technology is useless.
Xu Meng glanced at the technical introduction and felt that the [Brain-Computer Interface] technology might be of great help in optimizing the [Brainwave Signal Collector].
If he can study it in depth, the [data processing latency] and [unstable connection] problems that have been plaguing him with the Dream Machine may be solved!
“We need to find a few bedridden volunteers to verify the technical feasibility first.”
“Also, the Dream Machine can be made public.”
After thinking for a moment, Xu Meng took out his phone and dialed Wu Shuang's number.
