[Pica_soO]

I so do not envy the engineer who is pressured into hooking what is essentially two procedural generators, with the possibility for a alteration overlay together. If one mad guy alters a whole solar system into planet lava smileys..., how do you pack and transfer that information history on top of that, in real time...

[wmf]

This does work in Astroneer, but it was presumably designed for multiplayer from the beginning.

[cgb223]

Why not just have one procedural generator for both players and send changes to and from a server where they both pull from?

[Pica_soO]

The story goes something like this- they in fact have the same procedural generator. Both work upon the same key- thus mountains and everything is in the same place, provided they use the same hardware or the code is protected against floating point deviations.

The problem is- where do you begin and end with that? If a player can modify a world, basically, every change has to be distributed.. you have a sort of highres minecraft on your hands. Without originally being intended to be this. How do you sync it, if multiple players join and merge a universe?

[je_bailey]

I would have thought something along the lines of an acyclic graph ala git.