[Freeciv-Dev] Re: Creating dead player after the game has started.

[Thomas Strub <ue80@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Sat, Oct 12, 2002 at 05:40:22PM -0500, Mike Kaufman wrote:
> On Sat, Oct 12, 2002 at 11:36:43PM +0200, Thomas Strub wrote:
> > With my patch its possible to create dead players after the game has
> > started. 
> 
> this is really a kludge. The right way to do this is allow connections to
> the server that aren't players. My old client-auth patch does this and
> allows connections to attach to players either as a controller or an observer
> (so you can have multiple controllers as well).

Right its a kludge. And it works without changing the Client.
 
> The auth part of the patch really isn't ready for the big time, but perhaps
> the other parts (which allow for observers etc) could be pulled out as a
> separate patch.

You mean authentication.diff.bz2 ?  

I have real problems to know to which ideas there are patches and where
aren't some. 

Thomas
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