500 Autonomous Agents: 2 Hours Later | MapleStory v83

This video takes place 2 hours later, by which point nearly 200/500 agents had successfully reached Lith Harbor. I briefly walked from Mushroom Town all the way to Lith Harbor to observe how the agents were doing. Visually, none of the agents appeared to be stuck, and they continued progressing through the world. However, their movement had become noticeably slower over time. The most likely reason is that every agent is still running a full simulation, even when there are no observing clients. While this is great for testing the server under maximum load, it's also clear that this isn't the most efficient approach. The good news is that despite simulating all 500 agents continuously, the server remained stable throughout the entire run. Definitely will be implementing different levels of simulation based on whether an area is being observed by a client. This should significantly reduce the server workload while preserving the illusion of a living world, allowing agents to continue progressing naturally even when no players are around. Thanks for following the project, and there is still plenty more to come. Credits to P0nk for the Cosmic v83 server emulator, NuTNNuT's AI Companion for the bot logic foundation, Madara's SoloMapling for the bot behavior references, and nmnsnv's MapleStory-WASM for the physics. https://github.com/P0nk/Cosmic https://github.com/nutnnut/Cosmic https://github.com/MadaraGameDev/Solo... https://github.com/nmnsnv/maplestory-... PASSION PROJECT NOTICE This is a non-commercial passion project. MapleStory was chosen for educational purposes. MapleStory and all related assets, names, and trademarks belong to Nexon.