> > > > objs, 3 number of "objects" in the game universe
>
> Eek... Please don't have this in the protocol. Else a miss-configured
> meta server will tell players how many ships the other people have (This
> is particularly bad when there are only 2 players).
With fog of war would this give away any information? (It may give away
that a person is building a bunch of fleets - but not how many things
are in each of those fleets.)
> Maybe number of stars,which gives a nice indication of the approximate
> size.
The server could send any number if feels like really.
> How about the current turn number?
How about
<snip>
next, 6 unixtime stamp (GMT) when next turn is generated
ln, 7 long (human) name of the server
turn, 8 current turn number
> I'm not interested in joining a game which is on turn 54.
Actually you may. There are plans to support "perpetual games", where a
person can join any time.
> Regards,
> nash
Tim Ansell
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