[MUD-Dev] Net protocols for MUDing (was: Moore's Law sucks)

[J C Lawrence]

On Sun, 1 Mar 1998 14:13:23 PST8PDT 
Adam Wiggins<nightfall at user1.inficad.com> wrote:


> So here's a question to you, Chris, and all those that have remained
> silent on this thus far: which do you prefer - a client whose speed
> is directly proportional to the speed of your internet connection so
> that you can rely on every client always being 100% "correct", or
> one which runs at its own framerate (hopefully 30fps or better)
> attempting to display what data it has about the world as best it
> can, resulting in some inconsistencies (or perhaps many if your
> connection is very unstable)?  

The latter.  

  Note: Even sitting at the fat end of an OC3 (as I was this weekend)
I still got horrendous lag from a couple sites.  Nothing to do with my
end.  Everything to do with a tinpot router with indigestion at their
end.

I want a "best effort" representation from the client which sacrifices 
verisimiltude and other forms of fidelity for the sake of performance
when resources get low, be the CPU, bandwidth, whatever.

> I know which one I'd choose, but I
> wonder how many people feel the same?  Or perhaps there should be
> some sort of consistency sliders in the options screen which change
> how much prediction it does on its own, and how much it relies on
> the server for?

Possible, but rather expensive to implement...

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