Overall, the idea looks fine, but I haven't looked at the actual patch. But a few other thoughts:
1) It could be nice to include the highest number party number in the stats command (only transmit when changed). Since I recall that whenever a new party is created, the client can use this to know when in fact there are new parties. 2) It could likewise be nice for the requestinfo party_list to take a parameter, which denotes to only send party info above that number. In this way, the client could keep track of what is last requested up to, and then can just request the new parties. Normally, this isn't an issue, but I believe there have been cases where people have tried to abuse the server by creating hundreds of parties. If with a relatively modest number of parties, you probably want to be able to only send the new ones. Periodically I suppose the client could go through and request all the parties to figure out which are now defunct. OR perhaps more to have something like a request active party type of thing, which really only needs to send the party numbers of the active parties. _______________________________________________ crossfire mailing list [email protected] http://mailman.metalforge.org/mailman/listinfo/crossfire
