[MUD-Dev] Quake II has gone GPL

[shren]

On Thu, 14 Mar 2002, John Buehler wrote:

> I wouldn't be surprised if Asheron's Call does what I'm talking
> about.  There's a noticeable, and very annoying, pause when
> starting a character movement.  This is why I don't want players
> to 'drive' their characters around, as they do in Asheron's Call.
> That 'driving' process involves many interactions with the server,
> down to the point of player reaction time.  I want to stay away
> from that level of control and slow the pace of player reaction
> quite a bit.  I want the characters reacting and the players
> proacting - so to speak.
 
> And I certainly want to be able to access information in the
> movement algorithms that I don't want to communicate to the
> client.

And then there's the information that you surely can't commuicate to
the client, such as the current position of in-game mobiles that you
want to make 'solid'.

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