Xaya’s Latest Emerging Hit Taurion is Going into a Hard Fork Within 24 hours

On Xaya block 2,159,000 — estimated to be some time on Tuesday the 8th of September, Taurion will test a hard fork in the alpha test. This is not a Xaya fork. It is only for Taurion, Xaya’s latest hit backed by some of the top gaming companies with significant prizes.

Xaya lacks no confidence in hard forks, their team’s blockchain development pedigree goes back to working on 2011’s Namecoin which they forked in 2013 into the world’s first gaming blockchain called Huntercoin  Ethereum was still just an idea.

The well-experienced team plans to use this hard for a number of reasons:

• Test hard forks of Xaya games
• Update the GSP to allow vehicles to a path through other vehicles
• Spawn new starter vehicles in city buildings instead of outside

“We’re taking this opportunity to improve gameplay and at the same time test a Xaya game hard fork,” stated XAYA Co-founder Andrew Colosimo. “For the game improvements, we’ll be changing the movement mechanics.”

In the previous Treasure Hunt, every full game node computed paths that allowed for obstacle avoidance and pathfinding around other vehicles (every 100 hexes of movement). This worked fine, however, it was computationally expensive when having to calculate paths for 1000s of moving units on the map, and this made syncing the game world in a fully decentralized mode quite slow.

“We solved this so that there actually is no intelligent pathfinding in the blockchain game logic, instead the user just submits waypoints and a direction. This reduces computation as the front end can just submit more waypoints to avoid vehicles when it submits the path,” added Colosimo.

Currently, however, the team has pointed out the frontend does not automatically take into account other vehicles as obstacles when placing paths although it is invisibly implemented to do so. This is because they need to update the frontend to give the user a choice to avoid or not, as being in combat you may want your units to move to exactly where you say.

By not having this implemented for the user, it has caused an unseen issue which was brought about by a user attempting to exploit the free starter pack to take advantage of the “faucet” that gives each new account 0.3 CHI.

Although he did not receive any significant amount of CHI, he did cause 100s of vehicles to spawn around the starter cities causing new players to think they are stuck when they try to move.

The new change will allow vehicles to no longer be obstacles, however, this will reduce the speed of the vehicle by 80% if occupying the same hex tile.

This reduces most pathing and obstacle issues whilst also keeping the PvP strategy element complex as players still need to consider other vehicles as obstacles.

In addition to this,  they will also now change the spawn locations for new units so that they appear inside the starter city buildings (docked), as opposed to a random place outside of it.