[Freeciv-Dev] Re: observers (was: Against cheating clients: veteran status patch.)

[Marko Lindqvist <caz@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Sat, 2 Sep 2000, Jeff Mallatt wrote:

> Hum.  It seems that observers by their very nature are going to be more,
> rather than less, omniscient.  So, I guess that in this (veteran status)
> case, observers should receive the veteran status.  And, they should always
> receive the maximal amount of information.

 Agreed, I were unaware of 'global' observers while doing this patch. Also
note that this patch does not much good without packet_enemy_unit.diff,
since veteran status is sent as part of packet_unit_info anyway. I have
to check observer handling in packet_enemy_unit.diff patch too.


 Caz

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