by MagicManICT » Sun Jan 02, 2022 11:55 pm
There are people that run a large number (greater than 5) of accounts at once. I've seen a few attempts at making a client without any actual interface. All you need are the data and to bounce the appropriate codes back to the server. In theory, with a current 8-12 core CPU, one could run a few thousand accounts off one PC if they had the bandwidth for it. I know of at least one MMO dev that has internal clients that have no UI, just scripted command line interfaces for performance testing of changes to various parts of the server architecture or code. Last I read, they were running a thousand clients off one PC, and that was several years ago when quad core CPUs and 4GB were the standard.
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