Re: Crossfire client (and Re: Patches, ftp, new releases. )

["William W. Dyess" <dyessww@Eng.Auburn.EDU>]

On Thu, 3 Feb 1994, Philip Brown wrote:

> >>>>[From William W. Dyess]
>     
>     Netrek manages to send the position info for 16+ ship as well as up
>     to 8 torps for each 10 times/sec.  Sending position info for a fireball
>     shouldn't be too tough.
>     
> In updating reality terms, netrek can only handle about 4 ships, and 20
> torpedos in one display space, before net lag becomes unbearable.

Ok, that gives us two dozen moving objects to play with.  Everything else 
should be client controlled.  Can anybody think of a time when we would 
need to have more than 24 continuously moving objects?  BTW, how many 
updates/sec do we want to achieve?

The animated sequences are probably best done with UDP.

--Bill Dyess