Hi James, hi Jon
Why geek-appeal, if I must ask?
My idea was to provide a very clean interface for the user.
In Fgrun, beside the multiplayer check flag, you would have a drop-down menu
specifying the Group that you want to join instead of the current port
number.
Pretty natural as far as user experience goes.
And Jon, I wouldn't expect a large number of groups, so the idea would imply
a small set of port numbers. I'm thinking that 10 consecutive ports would
suffice, and it shouldn't be too difficult to choose a range like that.
If I got it right, the alternative is to hide traffic based on the group it
belongs to, but using the same MP instance on the server.
But it's not just traffic, you also need to :
- hide events that change the environment (wildfires started by crashes, and
am sure other state-ful features will be added in the future)
- hide additional effects generated by aircrafts (smoke trails, contrails,
...)
- hide state of MP vehicles, like aircraft carriers
and so on.
In my humble opinion, multiple MP instances, one per group (and identified
by a different port number), would make it easier to support different
states for different groups on the MP server side.
Tom
On Sat, Nov 14, 2009 at 1:43 PM, James Turner <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> On 14 Nov 2009, at 21:35, Jon Stockill wrote:
>
> > I would suggest that this is a bad idea - ever increasing port
> > requirements are simply going to annoy the people running the servers.
> >
> > It's really not the right way to solve the problem.
>
> Indeed, this is a geek-appeal solution, not a good-user-experience
> solution.
>
> James
>
>
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