What is the limit for player characters on a planet, and for ships as well?asked by Danoki
TL;DRThere is no preset limit on players or ships on a planet; it depends on optimization and performance, and the numbers are expected to keep growing, with networking work hopefully helping.
Danoki, that's a thing that comes after planets, and ships can go down on planets. That's an optimization and performance issue. So it's not an arbitrary number that we set ahead of time.
Yeah, it's one thing where we're constantly reaching to have more and more and more with each patch. You probably remember a year and a half ago we had like four-player matches in AC and now we have, what is it, 16 or 24.
And with the networking work, hopefully that will be, well, it will be more, but hopefully it will be even more.
It's one of those things that I imagine that for the rest of history, we will be slowly pushing it forward, after the game launches and as long as we possibly can. In 2356, we'll all have supercomputers that can have a billion people in every instance.
I have no trouble imagining that Chris will be constantly pushing the number of people that we can squeeze into a place long after the game goes live.
Once Star Citizen becomes a historical drama, like Chris Roberts' head in a jar, we'll still be improving it.