[Freeciv-Dev] Re: [Request for data] Reducing network bandwidth

[Christian Knoke <chrisk@xxxxxxxx>]

On Tue, Oct 08, 2002 at 06:44:45AM -0700, Raimar Falke wrote:
> 
> Since the topic of network bandwidth usage is comming up regularly
> (recently the proposal of compressing the traffic) I would like to ask
> players to provide as with data about the structure of the traffic.
> 
> So please change the line
>   #define PACKET_SIZE_STATISTICS 0
> to
>   #define PACKET_SIZE_STATISTICS 1
> in common/packets.c. Recompile and play a normal freeciv game. Send
> the _last_ chunk of new output from the client to freeciv-dev. Please
> also add information about number of players and number of
> turns/year. Note that the statistics are reset if the client is
> restarted.

Does it need to be a new game (from the beginning), or is it helpful,
to continue a game from, let's 1600, to year 1700, and send that data,
too?

Christian

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