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

[Raimar Falke <rf13@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Tue, Oct 08, 2002 at 06:07:51PM +0200, Christian Knoke wrote:
> 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?

Please send both data. It will be interresting to know if the
distribution of the packets depend on the game year.

        Raimar

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