> > > > > 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.)
Absolutely. This information would be gold in some Stars! games I've
played. Remember that I'm going to take the total, subtract the fleets
I know off (ie all of mine, and all the enemies I can see). In extreme
cases it will tell me that I know every ship. Even if it doesn't tell
me exactly it gives me a good idea how many I can't see. Even if it
gives me a clue it can be too much information. And forcing people to
split and merge fleets to hide the info is silly.
The delta between turns can be extremely useful as well - as a freshly
built ship is always a new fleet.
Also at the beginning game it tells me the number of planets in the
game.
> > 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 making that a strong suggestion then? It's a fairly good
metric for game size.
> > 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
Also don't forget the length of each turn. After all I don't want to
join an AI test game generating every 10 seconds.
> > 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.
Generally speaking I won't be interested in joining a game on turn 54.
Joining a game to get wumped by a massive 339 planet empire on my 3rd
turn isn't fun.
Regards,
nash
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