[Freeciv-Dev] Re: RFC Metaserver overhaul

[Christian Knoke <chrisk@xxxxxxxx>]

On Sat, Nov 02, 2002 at 08:38:07AM -0800, Paul Zastoupil wrote:
> On Sat, Nov 02, 2002 at 04:24:52PM +0000, Vasco Alexandre Da Silva Costa 
> wrote:
> > On Fri, 1 Nov 2002, Paul Zastoupil wrote:
> > 
> > > I think the metaserver needs a complete overhaul.
> > >

> > The server should send updates any time the previous information sent is
> > invalid. i.e.:
> > 
> > * After boot.
> > * Every turn.
> > * Everytime game status changes.
> > * Everytime someone changes a server variable.
> > * Everytime someone changes the comment.
> > * Everytime a player is created, destroyed, set to computer or human
> >   control, connects or disconnects .
> > 
> > Since this may cause too many updates to be sent we could make the server
> > only send updates at most every 5 seconds or so.
> 
> This would be nice.
> 
> > 
> > I do not expect the size of the data sent per update to be larger than
> > 2-4KB.

May I throw in: don't make it too big, please. 4KB every 5 seconds, upwards
through a modem is too much IMO.

Christian

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