[MUD-Dev] Re: [IDEAS] Starting from scratch

[Ross Nicoll]

Franklyn Colebrooke, Jr. wrote in a Mail about "[MUD-Dev] [IDEAS] Starting
from scratch":

 > 1. maintain quality connections with players in such a manner that it
 > will actively ping the players and drop anyone within the admin's described
 > margins. If not drop them, then to put them on a holding queue until
 > the connection improves.
I have to ask... why? My MUD has a inactivity-timeout of about 10 minutes
(really need to increase that), which does a vaguely similar job, but if you
start dropping users who have slow connections, I think most of them will just
got annoyed and/or bored, and will leave.
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