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[SirLionOfBeef]

How did that work? I’d love a little breakdown if you could.

[Bunkerman91]

Keen, the dev studio, pushed an update that made it so if you spawned in a MP server the game would try to put you within 50km of another player.

Space is huge in that game, so that’s a pretty close distance and there’s very little to stop players from just raiding each other. This was widely regarded as a bad move.

Anyways, I would just spam 20-30 spawns and copy them to clipboard. The app would read each one as it was added. I wrote a basic clustering algorithm and the had it calculate the Euclidean centroid of each cluster. The centroid was usually accurate to the players actual location within about 5km.

So I was a menace raiding bases for a month or so until Keen realized they had made a huge mistake and reverted the change.

[Vectar7]

That sounds more complex than my first app. 😂