Question regarding technical aspects of the game (& servers in general)

Hey everyone,

I originally posted this about a week ago in the Questions section, but unfortunately the thread got drowned by clan wars-related questions. I decided now would be a good time to post it, seeing as things have calmed down a little.


So I know that a lot of people were expecting Clan Wars to be more in the lines of multiple clan mates attacking one village (a clan village, perhaps) at the same time. Personally, I'm extremely happy and exited by what Supercell has managed to pull off; this update is everything I wanted it to be, and more.


I do have a hypothetical question, however.


How hard would it be to implement a feature that involves attacks from multiple players at the same time?
I know iPads and tablets/smartphones in general are quite behind the rest of the IT world in terms of technology, and Clash of Clans is but a simple 50mb app.


The reason I ask is because in the long-term, this could open up massive doors for new features.


For example, imagine if there were "dungeons" comprised of massive villages (owned by goblins, rogue barbarians, etc...) that Clans could coordinate an attack on for trophies or loot. So if there was a huge village that required 5 clan mates to attack, two could focus on outer defenses, one on distracting inner defenses whilst a fourth loots the collectors/storages and a fifth concentrates on eliminating the Town Hall (or boss, or other important building). It would also open the door up for some lore, because I do love lore :)


This is obviously a HUGE feature, which brings me back to my original question, could this actually possible in technical terms, today or sometime in the future?


Thank you,


-B

To the mods that moved this from general to clan wars, it has nothing to do with clan wars... I was merely mentioning it in the first sentence.

This could be a really cool feature. Having multiple people attack one really big base would be a awesome part of the game. It would take alot of strategy and would be very different then anything they have right now.

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Originally Posted by Bianko

Hey everyone,

I originally posted this about a week ago in the Questions section, but unfortunately the thread got drowned by clan wars-related questions. I decided now would be a good time to post it, seeing as things have calmed down a little.


So I know that a lot of people were expecting Clan Wars to be more in the lines of multiple clan mates attacking one village (a clan village, perhaps) at the same time. Personally, I'm extremely happy and exited by what Supercell has managed to pull off; this update is everything I wanted it to be, and more.


I do have a hypothetical question, however.


How hard would it be to implement a feature that involves attacks from multiple players at the same time?
I know iPads and tablets/smartphones in general are quite behind the rest of the IT world in terms of technology, and Clash of Clans is but a simple 50mb app.


The reason I ask is because in the long-term, this could open up massive doors for new features.


For example, imagine if there were "dungeons" comprised of massive villages (owned by goblins, rogue barbarians, etc...) that Clans could coordinate an attack on for trophies or loot. So if there was a huge village that required 5 clan mates to attack, two could focus on outer defenses, one on distracting inner defenses whilst a fourth loots the collectors/storages and a fifth concentrates on eliminating the Town Hall (or boss, or other important building). It would also open the door up for some lore, because I do love lore :)


This is obviously a HUGE feature, which brings me back to my original question, could this actually possible in technical terms, today or sometime in the future?


Thank you,


-B

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Anything is possible to code, in today's world. But the problem with this idea is not the complications, it's the amount of server and device space this would take up.

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Originally Posted by Isaacium

Anything is possible to code, in today's world. But the problem with this idea is not the complications, it's the amount of server and device space this would take up.

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Space is cheap. Anything is not possible to code. There are many things that cannot be done even on a theoretical machine with near infinite processing power and space.

However, this particular issue is not one of those problems. It is, however, an issue of code complexity. While probably possible it would also be extraordinarily complicated.

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Originally Posted by dahimi

Space is cheap. Anything is not possible to code. There are many things that cannot be done even on a theoretical machine with near infinite processing power and space.

However, this particular issue is not one of those problems. It is, however, an issue of code complexity. While probably possible it would also be extraordinarily complicated.

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Thanks, this is probably the most useful and detailed answer yet.

Given that it is possible, but complex, I think this feature is probably going to start showing up in mobile gaming in a few years when the industry becomes even more competitive.